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neither one so liable to variation when the conditions 

 of soil are uncongenial. We say conditions of soil, 

 because we cannot attribute the marked changes we 

 have noticed in the type, when grown in close prox- 

 imity, to any other cause. We have found within a 

 radius of one- fourth of a mile from a given point on 

 Long Island, that from the same seed, and under the 

 same cultivation, there is a marked difference in the 



Fig. 2— Charleston Wakefield. 



type, in almost every respect. Here plants are uni- 

 form as to size as well as in color and substance of 

 leaf. The plants seem to grow to perfection from 

 choice, while those grown but a mile distant are 

 irregular, the leaves are crumpled and twisted, 

 and the heads coarse and imshapely. We are now 



