WORKS BY PROFESSOR BAILEY 



The Survival of the Unlike 



A Collection of Evolution Essays Suggested by the Study of Domestic Plants 



By L. H. BAILEY 



Professor of Horticulture in the Cornell University 

 FOURTH EDITION 515 PAGES 22 ILLUSTRATIONS $2.00 



TO those interested in the underlying philosophy of plant life, this 

 volume, written in a most entertaining style, and fully illustrated, 

 will prove welcome. It treats of the modification of plants under 

 cultivation upon the evolution theories, and its attitude is char- 

 acterized by the author's well-known originality and independence 

 of thought. Incidentally, there is stated much that will be valuable 

 and suggestive to the working horticulturist. It may well be called 

 indeed, a philosophy of horticulture. 



THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNLIKE comprises thirty essays touching upon The General 

 Fact and Philosophy of Evolution (The Plant Individual, Experimental Evolution, 

 Coxey's Army and the Russian Thistle, Recent Progress, etc.) ; Expounding the Fact and 

 Causes of Variation (The Supposed Correlations of Quality in Fruits, Natural History 

 of Synonyms, Reflective Impressions, Relation of Seed-Bearing to Cultivation, Varia- 

 tion after Birth, Relation between American and Eastern Asian Fruits, Horticultural 

 Geography, Problems of Climate and Plants, 

 American Fruits, Acclimatization, Sex in 

 Fruits, Novelties, Promising Varieties, etc.); 

 and Tracing the Evolution of Particular Types 

 of Plants (The Cultivated Strawberry, Battle 

 of the Plums, Grapes, Progress of the Carna- 

 tion, Petunia, The Garden Tomato, etc.). 



" Whatever Professor Bailey writes is in- 

 teresting reading. He has the rare gift of an 

 entertaining style, and what he writes people 

 want to read. All his previous books have 

 been widely read, and this will prove no 

 exception to the well-established rule. The 

 secret of his popularity, if there be any secret 

 about it, is that when he writes he has some- 

 thing new to say; something based upon ex- 

 periences and observations. These are by no 

 means all his own, for he has the ability to 

 see with the eyes of other people, as well as 

 with his own. He is thus able to bring into 

 his pages a rich mass of new matter, which 

 gives them additional interest and value. 

 PROF. E. C. BESSEY, in Science. 



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THE SURVIVAL OF THE VNI.IKE. 



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plant specifically from any other species of Lycopersicnm 

 which is yet described. The 

 leaflets are reduced in number, 

 and are greatly modified in 

 shape. Even the inflorescence 

 shares in the transformation, 

 for the flowers, instead of being 

 six or more, as they are in its 

 known, ancestors, are reduced to 

 two or tnree - K De Varigny 

 were to experiment for centu- 

 ries, he could scarcely ex- 

 pect to produce any "new 

 species" which should 

 have better characters than 

 this singular race of to- 

 matoes, the origin of which 

 is so well known that. we 

 have the record of the 

 year in which it origina- 

 ted, and 



the very O. P*w like type of ton.to. 



man who sowed the seed from which 

 it sprung. This curious race came 

 in suddenly, without any premoni- 

 tion, so far as we know, of its ap- 

 pearing, and the same thing has 

 probably not originated a second 

 time. 



The other type to which I refer- 

 red, the large-leaved or Mikado race 

 (variety grandifolium) , gave evi- 

 ' dence of its coming. This type has 



