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John Parkinson of his gilloflowers/ " that those 

 plants that beare double flowers, doe beare no seed 

 at all . . , but the onely way to ha\-e double flowers 

 any yeare is to save the seedes of those plants of 

 this kinde that beare single flowers, for from that 

 seede will rise, some that will beare single, and some 

 double flowers." With regard to the nature of these 



Fig. 44. 

 Singli; and double stocks raised fioin the same single parent. 



double -throwing strains of singles, Miss Saunders 

 has recently brought out some interesting facts. Slie 

 crossed the double - throwing singles with pure 

 singles belonging to strains in which doubles never 

 occur. The cross was made both ways, and in 

 both cases all the F^ plants were single. A distinc- 

 tion, however, appeared when a further generation 



^ Paradisus Terrtjslns, London, 1629, p, 267, 



