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seed should be sown by itself. When the seedlings 

 are transplanted, they should be kept apart and 

 labeled No. i, No. 2, No. 3, etc., so the progeny of 

 each parent plant can be known and its history kept. 



The process of selecting the seedlings the sec- 

 ond year is the same as in the first; the best are 

 given preference, when being transplanted. In the 

 beds all sorts of variations even more pronounced 

 than the first year may be expected. The effort with 

 the seedlings derived from each parent plant should 

 be to find the plants that most closely resemble 

 their own parents, and to manage these just as the 

 parents were managed. No other should be allowed 

 to flower. 



This process is to be continued from year to year. 

 If the selection is carefully made, the grower will 

 soon rejoice, because he will observe a larger and 

 a larger number of plants approaching the type of 

 plant he has been selecting for. In time practically 

 the whole plantation will be coming "true to type," 

 and he will have developed a new variety. If his 

 ideal is such as to appeal to the practical man — the 

 man who grows parsley for money — and if the 

 variety is superior to varieties already grown, the 

 originator will have no difficulty in disposing of his 

 stock of seed and plants, if he so desires, to a seeds- 

 man, who will gladly pay a round price in order to 

 have exclusive control of the "new creation." Or he 

 may contract with a seedsman to grow seed of the 

 new variety for sale to the trade. 



It may be said, further, that new varieties may be 

 produced by placing the pollen from the flowers of 



