APPENDIX. 



THE following more or less prevalent errors it 

 may be well here to place on record. Such 

 of them as have the most semblance of truth, or 

 are entertained to any considerable extent in this 

 country at the present time, are accompanied by 

 brief explanations. 



Fruits True to Variety. — Fruits which are 

 planted whole, so that the seedlings will be 

 nourished by the whole fruit, will come true to the 

 variety. — Michigan Farmer, 1849, page 267. 



How to Grow Figs. — The peasants of France 

 plant a certain bulb ( Scilla maritima ? ) at the base 

 of their fig trees to make them fruit better. — 

 Nature, Vol. XXX, 1884, page 194. 



Nectar. — " The superfluous saccharine matter 

 remaining after the stamens and pistil have con- 

 sumed all that they require." — Lindley and Moore, 

 " Treasury of Botany," 1876. 



Origin of the Cabbage. — " The Greeks have a 

 fable that Jupiter, laboring to explain two oracles 

 which contradicted each other, perspired, and from 



this djvin? perspiration the colewort sprang." — 



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