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time, and applying the pollen from some one chosen flower. 
pn of heredity can be Lae eel The particular sud in 
rogress this winter is on the effect of cultural conditions upon 
a ability of these plants to form seeds. 
Although the plant is called Chinese cabbage, it is really more 
closely related to the turnip, and this relationship is indicated 
by the delicate crpip: -like Haver we leaves. When properly 
headed, Chi ellent salad plant, bearing 
a large long head of very crisp tender leaves. In this form it is 
for h re must be grown in the cool par the 
season, either in spring or fall, and be carefully protected against 
a number of insect enemies, panera the common cebeee orm. 
Poorly cared-for plants s t 
some of them dehntele ia injurious while others are beneficial in 
that they prey upon the harmful ones 
Hester M. Rusk. 
