Max 28, 1887.] 
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orange-red blotch. С. Regnieri has also become 
tifu се is а Cochin China species, intro- 
pe by ^s Regnier s Paris. Pausen 
| i ir " ficiis rs, 
` Veitch, ot ‘Che, and Mr. Cookson, of Oakwood, 
Куш 
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4 
E 
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2 
т ш 
3 
Sandhurstiana, raised by Mr. 
ae but to be 
of 
бе ‘wher ла а variety of C. 
[ subject, it was stated aie aai blooms could be 
3 d fo may safely say 
- they can be had all а ш mái d saw & beautiful 
- novelty in Messrs, Veitch's ‘nursery in November 
1 E variety of C. Veitchii b lens — (— 
tage is rotate rar Pi b 
| Tn and flow "s 
| The ev evergreen 1 бы ies I say nothing about at pre- 
ү but they require the ваше potting soil as the 
| Producing stout white fleshy roots in the 
К . Modules of pure loam. J. Douglas. 
VARIATION IN PLANTS. 
VARWIN’S theory thereon does ا‎ seem to rest Or 
coming 
К ls organic evolution is no lon 
t it Vies e factors ha 
| н ашу às at once the most important 
Fie, 135.—HYPERICUM CHINENSE, 
the only ascertained sa of the аён admit that 
such an explanation g from rnal stand- 
point—the ичет oti the ب‎ p^ survive the 
shocks of the environment—stands in need of & 
complemen ntary explanation, which shall lay bare the 
internal mechanism of the process, i.e., not merely 
piper for the survival, Ж explain t e e гө of 
variations. - The relative importance of t 
and internal explanations will moreover tive voie 
in ی‎ as eerte are e ound to be *spon- 
tane in direction continuously. 
Avoiding iioi mere кашый of an “î — rent К 
gressive tendency " th pre post 
m 
ultimate result of morphological and 
physiological analysis, viz., to interpret all pheno- 
mena of form and function of cells, tissues, organs, 
(see », 104.) 
and individuals alike in terms of its constructive 
& 
selection upon the variat 
and ч under domestication, the internal ог 
ismal one as naturally commences with the 
fundamental rhythm of variation in the lowest 
rga in Nature. It also investigates the nature 
of the simple reproduct pon which the 
origin of species, as well as individuals, must depend 
female sex as the outcome of с 
preponderance is wn largely to cn the 
current one of sexual selection, and in some 
at least that of natural selection ; е 2^ the specially 
кы, 
organic ио, бчк аз үө check ог итен ы 
it, and acquires importance rather as determining 
the extinetion than the origin of species. The 
process of ا‎ аа — that between indi- 
viduation and reproduction, is mooted by the author, 
сЕ its application 5 the origin and modification of 
owers, &c., outlined, A discussion 
embryolo ogical and pathological factors ens — 
rotes with an application of the whole 
to the construction of & prata ett tree y: ge е 
апі не ач ун 
CLIMATE AND CULTIVATION 
IN TEXAS 
ma a nes on the trade and commerce of Tex 
durin e year 1886, the British Consul nes a 
the present state of the mies in co nf eed as fol- 
lows :—“ Cotton-seed oil is a great export Риб e of 
эней апа nc MLB ME d from which 
as 0 
wholesome moh Rd 
Cotton seed was, therefore, ot long ago a profitable 
article to the cotton farmers, but a “ee has 
ор fle о formed п vid the name ot t 
can 11 Company, w 
every @ uin in the Бонн States. 
consequence, already run down the price of seed from 
7 dols. 50 cents, the normal me to 5 dols. per 
ton, while th e ue run up the price of oil from 
o 40 утчу or 1з, 74 aving 
down such of them 
as are not convenient es their operations, and 
thereby lessen the rates of labour ny expenditure, 
while they contrive to break down such opposition 
mills as hold out for a time by ارا‎ high prices for 
oil-seed.” 
In a description of the climate and of Texas 
otes ur h 
consequence of the proximity of the hills and forests 
of the Indian territo re are al er 
and r astern Texas is in great part 
and the soil, though sandy, is fertile. rawbac 
or ira € the Stats but 
rn Texas prevalence 
of long spells of or ‘weather, Ает inde the 
felling and clearing of large tracts иф agir in En 
rome are undoubtedly on as incre Texas i 
e degree of latitude as pretii Syria, 
ut salis | Persia, &c., and the climate will, no doubt, 
eventually become, at any rate in the south and west, 
much what it at sre is in the above eountries— 
dry, hot summers, little or no rainfall, 
j the other hand the hea 
the fruits of temperate climates een far to the 
north) nien as the ean ж r, &c. 
In Jan , 1886, а rther” ё тез фач Й їп a few 
hours sank the гдан 45°. Galveston bay 
lo ng before morning was a sheet of solid ice for many 
€ 
выд, Orange, Lemon, Oleander, 
around Galveston, m temporarily ruined the enin 
industry in Florida for 4? or the 
southward, Cattle died of cold in арбын all 
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