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green than our neighbors' dahlias. A 

 horse-chestnut in our town whose leaves 

 had been destroyed by the tussock-moth 

 began life over in October, and put out not 

 only fresh leaves, but blossoms. 



Picking off a double white petunia that 

 had faded, I was surprised to see, through 

 a rent in its petals, what seemed like a 

 flower. Pulling off the corolla, this seeming 

 was found to be true. A folded blossom, 

 as large as two peas, lay within the petals 

 and stamens ; and one of the petals of this 

 infolded flower was the pistil of the outer 

 one. Nor was this instance unique, for I 

 found a flower within a flower on the same 

 plant afterward. Equally odd was a per- 

 formance of the bellis as it was going out 

 of bloom in late July. One of its blos- 

 soms put forth two minor ones, not from 

 the stalk, but from the disk, or base of the 

 disk, itself. A sepal, in that case, became 

 a stalk. Another sepal had enlarged and 

 had developed imperfect leaves. One of 

 the calendulas repeated this trick of the 

 bellis, no less than three flower-buds grow- 

 ing from the edge of one of its flowers. 



Plants may have wens and warts, too, 



