MR. BTJRBANK INSPECTING CROSS-BRED TOMATO SEEDLINGS 



The specimens depicted were altogether extraordinary, in that the 

 cotyledons shown when they first issued from the ground were not 

 smooth, as is almost invariable with every species of plants, but deeply 

 serrated. In all Mr. Bin-bank's experiments, involving inspection of 

 millions on millions of seedlings, he has never observed this phenomenon 

 before. These specimens appeared in the season of 1914. 



