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neglect, and abuse, will keep on, and on, and on 

 — improving as it goes. 



How few, indeed, are the materials which the 

 architect of buildings has at his command when 

 compared with the range of living traits which 

 the architect of plants may call into play! 



Our search, then, is a search for 

 stored-up heredities — a search for, 

 living traits. 



