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constantly appear at the extremes of the 

 relatively more vegetative and more floral 

 series which are discernible more or less in 

 every alliance, great and small. Witness 

 among the vast group of monocotyledons, 

 the extremes of the grasses and the orchids 

 respectively; or in a single genus, say 

 Senecio, its weedy groundsels and gorgeous 

 cinerarias. 



JUSTIFICATION OF THE PRESENT THEORY 

 IN RUSTIC EXPERIENCE. Now this whole 

 theoretic reinterpretation : whence is it ? 

 Again from experience. With the resources 

 of a great garden, at any rate with a 

 gardener to do all the work for us, we come 

 out at leisure, and notice the flowers, here 

 visited by insects, and there swaying in the 

 wind, and fancy their forms thus fashioned, 

 adapted, selected from without : our town 

 friends are readily convinced of this, and their 

 assent strengthens our convictions and stimu- 

 lates our researches anew. But when we 

 set about making a garden for ourselves, and 

 labour with our own hands, new perspectives 

 open, fresh points of view appear, above all 

 that of growth; and this even at its very 

 simplest, the wide growth-contrast of lilies 

 and rushes, of weeds and flowers reinterprets 

 the differences we formerly ascribed to form 



