May 6, 189 1.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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in any garden vegetable capable of being successfully grown 

 there at all. But when the desired thing is produced, it is to 

 a great extent the child of its environment, capable, with care, 

 of perpetuation in that specific locality, but with no sure 



latitude, it will prove itself quite unstable under changes of a 

 very few hundred feet. 



This subject is one that seems to be worthy of careful atten- 

 tion. If properly studied, I am confident that very surprising 



Fig. 38. — The Douglas Fir. — See page 205. 



promise that it will live up to its home character when re- 

 moved to a considerable distance. I believe that no variety 

 of corn will continue the same if moved in latitude more than 

 fifty miles ; and where it is a question of altitude as well as 



results will be reached, and certain principles established, 

 which will not only remove all mystery, but will give us 

 mastery where before we trusted to chance. 

 Newport, vt. T. H. Hoskins. 



