ON SOME UNTRIED EXPERIMENTS 



that there is no difficulty about the multiplication 

 of a new variety. The new varieties do not usually 

 come true from seed. But this is of no importance, 

 inasmuch as a single plant may be so multiplied 

 by division as to produce probably fifty thousand 

 marketable plants, on good soil, in the course of 

 two or three years. 



SOME MISCELLANEOUS IMPROVEMENTS 



From among a great variety of experiments 

 looking to the improvement of farm and forage 

 crops, I will select only three or four additional 

 ones as offering further suggestions. 



An interesting anomaly with which I have 

 experimented is a hybrid form of the wild oat. 



A field of the second generation of these hybrid 

 oats furnishes one of the most interesting studies 

 of variation that has come under my observation. 

 Inspecting a field of these oats, sown quite thinly, 

 one finds on the same day some that are thor- 

 oughly ripe, while others are not yet in bloom. 

 There is corresponding diversity as to the appear- 

 ance of the plants, some having broad leaves and 

 some narrow ones. 



Some of the plants are very tall, and others 

 short and stocky. The panicles are of all forms 

 and sizes. In a word, the hybrids vary in almost 

 every way in which they could vary, and still be 

 recognized as oats. 



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