Chilian Beans 



This lot of beans affords another striking instance of 

 the wide range of variation among the seeds of individual 

 plants oj the same species. It may be assumed that these widely diver- 

 gent seeds represent various heredities. Each plant is, in point 

 of fact, a mosaic of characteristics inherited from many lines 

 of ancestry. In Mr. Burbank's phrase, heredity is 

 the sum oJ past environments. A curious and 

 important feature of the matter is that the 

 different racial strains may be segregated, 

 as illustrated in this lot of beans. 



