86 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [March, 1911.] 
the seedlings showed variation, and about 1 per cent. as great 
a variation as the mother tree. During these three years the 
percentage of abnormality apparently rose as noted by Lieut.- 
Col. Prain to whom I am indebted for the information concern- 
ing these experiments. In 1910 the trial of seeds was 
It is impossible to say from the young stages of the plant 
how far the mature tree will continue, decrease or augment 
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