THE KINDS OF VARIATIONS 



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two seeds, even from the same fruit, ever produce plants 

 exactly alike. Even though the seedlings resemble each 

 other so closely that people say they are the same, never- 

 theless they will be found to vai-y in size, number of 

 leaves, shape, or other fea- 

 tures. Figs. 381 and 382 

 illustrate seed -variation. 



374. Variations arising 

 directly from buds, rather 

 than from seeds, are bud- 

 variations, and the most 

 marked of them may be 

 described and named as bud- 

 varieties. We have learned 

 in Chapter V how the horti- 

 culturist propagates plants 

 by means of buds: not one 

 of these buds will reproduce 

 exactly the plant from which it was taken. We have 

 already discovered (17, 118) that no two branches are 

 alike, and every branch springs from a bud. Bud-varia 

 tion is usually less marked than seed- variation, however, 



!lrllOl■-vita^ tree. Imiii whuli seeds 

 were taken oue day 



382. The progeny of the 



seeds of the tree shown in Fig. 381.— 



No two plants alike. 



yet now and then one branch on a plant may be so un- 

 like every other branch that the horticulturist selects buds 

 from it and endeavors to propagate it. "Weeping" or 

 pendent branches sometimes appear on upright trees; nee- 



