CONTENTS. IX 



CHAPTER IX. 



CULTIVATED PLANTS : CEREAL AND CULINARY PLANTS. 

 PRELIMINARY REMARKS on the number and parentage of 



CULTIVATED PLANTS — FIRST STEPS IN CULTIVATION — GEOGRAPHICAL 

 DISTRIBUTION OF CULTIVATED PLANTS. 



CEREALI A. — DOUBTS on the number of species. wheat : 



VARIETIES of — INDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY CHANGED HABITS — 



SELECTION — ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE VARIETIES. MAIZE : GREAT 



VARIATION OF — DIRECT ACTION OF CLIMATE ON. 



CULINARY PLANTS. — cabbages : varieties of, in foliage and 



STEMS, BUT NOT IN OTHER PARTS — PARENTAGE OF — OTHER SPECIES 



OF BRASSICA. PEAS : AMOUNT OF DIFFERENCE IN THE SEVERAL 



KINDS, CHIEFLY IN THE PODS AND SEED — SOME VARIETIES CON- 

 STANT, SOME HIGHLY VARIABLE — DO NOT INTERCROSS. BEANS. 



POTATOES : NUMEROUS VARIETIES OF — DIFFER LITTLE EXCEPT 



IN THE TUBERS — CHARACTERS INHERITED .. .. PageS 322-351 



CHAPTER X. 



PLANTS continued — fruits — ornamental trees — 



FLOWERS. 



FRUITS GRAPES — VARY IN ODD AND TRIFLING PARTICULARS. 



MULBERRY — THE ORANGE GROUP — SINGULAR RESULTS FROM CROSS- 

 ING. PEACH AND NECTARINE — BUD- VARIATION — ANALOGOUS 



VARIATION — RELATION TO THE ALMOND. APRICOT. PLUMS — 



VARIATION IN THEIR STONES. CHERRIES — SINGULAR VARIETIES 



OF. APPLE. PEAR. STRAWBERRY — INTERBLENDING OF THE 



ORIGINAL FORMS. GOOSEBERRY — STEADY INCREASE IN SIZE OF 



THE FRUIT — VARIETIES OF. WALNUT. NUT. CUCURBITA- 



CEOUS PLANTS — WONDERFUL VARIATION OF. 



ORNAMENTAL TREES — their variation in degree and kind 



— ASH-TREE — SCOTCH-FIR — HAWTHORN. 



FLOWERS — MULTIPLE ORIGIN OF MANY KINDS — VARIATION IN CON- 

 STITUTIONAL PECULIARITIES KIND OF VARIATION. EOSES — 



SEVERAL SPECIES CULTIVATED. PANSY. DAHLIA. HYA- 

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