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crabs; and still others who hold that the final result lies 

 in improving the native crabs. There has been no end 

 of discussion and cross-purposes. In the meantime, nature 

 is quietly doing the work. Here is a good seedling of some 

 old variety, there a good one from some Russian, and 

 now and then one from the crab stocks. The new varie- 



FIG. 73. Type of Japanese incurved chrysanthemum. 



ties are gradually supplanting the old, so quietly that few 

 people are aware of it ; and by the time the contestants are 

 done disputing, it will be found that there are no Russians 

 and no Eastern apples, but a brood of Northwestern apples 

 that have grown out of the old confusion. 



All these new apples are simply seedlings, almost all 

 of them chance trees which come up here and there 



