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results of great scientific value. Any one who 

 has a garden, and sufficient perseverance to 

 make pure cultures during a series of years 

 might make important contributions to scien- 

 tific knowledge in this way. 



Choice might be made from among a wide 

 range of different types. A variety of corn 

 called " Harlequin " shows stripes- on its ker- 

 nels, and one ear may offer nearly white and 

 nearly red seeds and all the possible interme- 

 diate steps between them. From these seeds 

 the next generation will repeat the motley ears, 

 but some specimens will produce ears of uniform 

 kernels of a dark purple, showing thus the or- 

 dinary way of reversion. Some varieties of 

 beans have spotted seeds, and among a lot of 

 them one may be sure to find some purely red 

 ones. It remains to be investigated what will 

 be their offspring, and whether they are due to 

 partial or to individual variation. 



The cockscomb (Celosia cristata) has varie- 

 ties of nearly all colors from white and yellow 

 to red and orange, and besides them some 

 striped varieties occur in our gardens, with the 

 stripes going from the lower parts of the stem 

 up to the very crest of the comb. They are 

 on sale as constant varieties, but nothing has 

 as yet been recorded concerning their peculiar 

 behavior in the inheritance of the stripes. 



