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likeness is made, and it must be owned tliere is a depar- 

 tnre also from the prevailing beauty of the tvumpet series. 

 None of the double flowers can tie properly said to equal 

 the single ones in elegance, but they make more show, and 

 they last longer ; and if nature is pleased to give us doujjle 

 flowers we must accejit , them with thankfulness. For the 

 student of daffodils, the dtjuble are as attractive as the 

 single flowers, for the origin of their several parts, and 

 the manner in which the process of doubling is accom- 

 plished, present sul.>jects for in(|uiry not soon to be ex- 

 hausted. Some flowers nccur tliat arc double within the 

 trunrpet only. In this case the organs of reproduction 

 ma\' be supposed to he converted into petals, or their equiva- 

 lents. Other flowers occur that are doul)le outside the 

 trumpet, which remains intact in the midst of a. crowd of 

 golden banners ; and others, ag'ain, are cLjuble tliroughout, 

 like a double rose, and the trumpet is completely lost in a 

 confused mass of petals — or, to be learned, we will say 

 perianth segments. 



When we inquire into the origin of these many petals, 

 we find that we can in theory account for many of them. 

 For example, the outer segments or petals are six in 

 number; the trumjiet consists hypothetieally of six lobes 

 united at their edges ; there are six stamens and a stigma 

 of three lobes. Thus in a common single trumpet 

 daffodil there are twenty-one parts in all. How many 

 separate parts there are in a very double flower we do 

 not know, for we have never succeeded in counting them. 

 We began with a flower called G'rin/dij//e///f.i, and havino' 

 stripjied from it sixty parts, found there were fully three 

 times as many remaining, a considerable proportion of 

 these beiu"- gi-een scales, like miniature leaves. 



