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first sight suppose. The early phylologists thought they 

 discovered that in tlie seed was en-wrapped the image of 

 the future tret — a dissection of the seed would appear to 

 demonstrate this. It is composed of separate parts which 

 are capable of being developed into the root, stem, and 

 appendages, but they have yet to be so developed ; the 

 several parts that we find in the seed are merely the repre- 

 sentative parts. But the seed has the future of the tree 

 within itself, it has certain qualities of the future tree im- 

 pressed upon it in its primary organization, within the cap- 

 sule of the fruit of the parent plant, so that in a higher 

 sense the image of the future tree does exist within the 

 seed. Within the bud, still more plainly and more dis- 

 tinctly visible, is the future tree manifest, and we may pro- 

 duce a tree from a bud as certainly as we do from a seed. 

 Subjected to circumstances favorable for growth, the bud, 

 as well as the seed, will emit roots, will fonn its stem, 

 branches and appendages, and will become a tree ; differing 

 from the product of the seed only in this, that in the lat- 

 ter the resulting organism constitutes a new individual 

 which may vary somewhat from its parent, in the former 

 it is only a new development of a part of a previously ex- 

 isting organization. The similarity existing between the 

 two is exceedingly close, and is a matter of great impor- 

 tance in horticultural operations. Dr. Lindley, in the 

 Gardener's Chronicle, says very truly, that "every bud 

 of a tree is an individual vegetable, and a tree, therefore, 

 is a family or swarm of individual plants, like the polype 

 with its young growing out of its sides, or like the branch- 

 ing cells of the coral insect." Similar opinions, more or 

 less modified, have been expressed by subsequent physiol- 



