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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [DrcemsmR 31, 1859, 3 
ntained in the lists; and that in | such gene ra any r rate it] may by the nay by the operation of natural laws be eo far fia 
s easier to suppose that the kia are is as to reconci 
than that they are so. Again, | observer to the Pe that what in all his 4 
are immutable forms of ife may have once wn 
nother guise. The hypothesis itself is 
. it was, as the world k e. 
at 
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of the very same ron as are co 
soil and air, but that t hey are themselves the i 
immediate ancestors of the cultivated plants whose 
rovides him with remune i 
savage, at peace and at war, and in ) 
degree to the lower — N. the significance 0 of the | tions, or we h 
0 but how it can apply to that she has followed one method cies by ‘all 
peo so evident at first and another for he get There is then the geolo- | DARWIN has 7 5 kd 5 successful, though whether 
onnection with | gical evidence species not having all been in- completely so or not the future alone can show, 
cies" and with ‘ favoure d | troduced at one p he glob v. sl at various | We shall proceed rs ot amine e, in another 
re is|arti 
a D 
ener. ies these thoughts on reading fo 
the the title of Mr. DARWIN’ sed guished one by o and as geolo re 
x ORIGIN OF SpECIES,* and 5 pretty unanimous in believing that the pas 
in sci of the re e en n kin d and deg dem as 
ing to the 
k first-rate standi 
of great popularity, and a frequent contributor to those no à 
our columns waite: i e belief cha species were — at a itum p 
i Pall other conditions wer e different from er ane any iu spawn brought in from the 
that we ha thoes now existing; and thus hide one mystery 
Gardeners’ Chroniele (1858, p. 735) of a py under ano other. Aga in, if we hold g 
communicated by M dde de e e Lin that it is more likely tion, it wa 
that a new 1 of be rry, as different from different concurrence Ot 
Society, which gives the general na bito : 
of his work, but rathe: Steed e curiosity t than all the w the British 3 is fo the any other species. t is now, 
d it; bei i n of Alpine, should. naturally originate n England or h will ever make its appearüne 
e and ea rth ci water, than that | without the presence of spores, a, spores d 
it should have origina tad. in accordance. with one e kin 3 
t, varie É 
gestive value of that research, and still less of 3 : || in pro 
ork, | ducing the above-mentioned form Finally, we Be s varient as 4 5 15275 ‘ea 
on 
ET and talent of the present w 
psy è å ) 8 
h is usal of Mr. B surface of the globe (of elimate, geographical bed,as was first pointed out to us 11 7 
uch iei] Ph its importance, and limits, elevation and depression). are uoces ago by Mr. J. HENDERSON, the scientific 
po Em reover found it to be so d Sea x the | slow; an that on the other relations of co- -ada xen of pes FITZWILLIAM. 
** of horticultural operations, for its facts tion subsist between the ert &e., of every ery remarkable ease is now before us whl 
and results, and so full of experiments that may eountry and the animals and plants which it con- is 75 thy of an especial notice. We have, indeed, 
and Qisoussed by in intelligen nt gardeners, tains; bu such eee could not har- no to the n the Must- 
of ideas that may sooner fructify in their | moniously exist if the physical changes were s slo w,|room bed of "which we are about to speak ws 
in of any cove. class of and the creations of speci udden, for in such prepared, or from whence the — 
E 4 cases the species must be nali either before or| with whieh it was inoc ; 
son they w i hic i 
"hope also se ya 
knen i its prc nts. Thusm may p 8 e 
mise, that it is a book teeming with p n contrary, the organisms are supposed to change anything similar reco orded 
umberless simple and complex phenomena o with the changed conditions of —— country they | Fungi. One pat atch alone in the 
j 1 . perfect adaptation and continuous fitness duces à succession of seattered 
uld be 
p 
life ; that its premises in almo ll cases appear to : 
rreot ; t its reasoning pparentl. close | W9 th — result. e of those which first ap 
sound, its style clear, and we need hardly add ideas as these, either in whole or in part — with the usual pro 
3 have occu t ny naturalists, p in , for exa cC is ne 
sh brown, d 
and 
its subject and manner equally attractive and ecurr a s 4 fo 
able; it is al rf endeavouring to classity their animals and plants, disati reddi 
0 nt for their distribution, they have elose- pressed scales, while the e s aia 
face i u 
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the | accounting for their origin. Hither most have, A second form appears in large 
its facts and as we have already observe d tl l iati tly from th z 
reasonings ; ** niformly courteous to a antago- with the ES sa they v were e independentl y | The whole plant is smaller, ' 
isti ereated, and the ority have elung to the amy inclined to expand early, 
i hey | brown, and the surface finel 
The stem is m re sle 
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first-created 3 organism, or a few such. Now | type and inclined to b 
ust be borne in mind that both these views | the whole plant approach 
i 1 has not its pee 
e (4 
of it m rn 
ries, which at the e time is are mere r eses in a scientific point of view 
, so fair in | en i 
co 
Before entering upon pentes d Ti thos but the sb 
~ of Mr. acini. " ork which ss A Piety |" the hypothesis of original creations is incapable | in the centre, 
concern our ers, we may e 8 that it 1s 1 pt t i witnessed | washed a ni ner iran i 
devoted to the inquiry of how iti is b that the world by eredible naturalists, and can only be supported | with a few seattere scales 
come to y so many and such e either i 
3 and animals as now inh » t 
it; and why it is that ce do not all prese - pe favourable to and this hypothesis is hene 
of an i — : ed at a disadvantage in comp at | figured b 
; — 
capable of being divided into varieties, species, of the ereation of species by variation, which takes | volutus, an 
i t one of 
genera, orders, &. To all lese mi its stand on the familiar fact that species do depar 
careful naturalists the assertion is sufficient, that from the likeness 2 their rogenitors, both in a 
they were so created, and have been endowed with ped i nd domestic state. p E f thi * The ste shi 
power to remain nehanged ; but there are con- he other hand "x hypothesis of —€— MAE igh, a not a js 99 
siderable difficulties in the way of the eager of . — labours r the disadvantage o that pate e gn 
this theory, whi ch all reflecting naturalists allow ; co. upon mena i Um "of | mon i kn is 
whilst + that each of which feriako m as explained by Mr, | in the fiel ; 
in Mr. DARwWIx's opinion the licen! to it are DARWIN, would appear to prevent the prie E white, wi 
more numerous and some of them m | of species retaining their geo for any length | 8° 
hen the arguments in its favour. In the first of time, and it therefore appear at first sight | respects su 
: vA is the fact, that gardeners and cattle and oppose sed to the pee anre fact, that m xy y hun- tivated. 
breeders have made races which are not only | dreds of animals and p ted their | highly flavoured and 
i p | ch a count ae re w 
0 
: d less generations pn dent even within the 
unquestionabl ranked as speeies and even historie per 7 m ny square miles of country each * 
| sider se er ye tituting 
ar wild plant is 
1 
genera; while. the possibility of their re- with millions of its exact counterpart. To explai n 
version to their rent forms is doubted ah e and to raise this hypothesis of erea- 
i h 
by man and ti by some. Then, ons by variation to the rank o Siew tific theo ory, 
nat in E E and t 
many En s present a graduated seri s do this bas eiie an owever 1S 
— varieties which have puzzled the best r pon such, i inteligible rai — of the opera- show that somet 
of varia for many species prd of e 
f Natural p 
E o Strngwle for Life | qum Auer develo 8 85 rom r e in "pe ada mem sof Ye 
g ons, and to sh w good | which is excellent, bu but t 
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