_not one seed will be matured. This certainly was a “ca 
ital experiment.” Though the impotency of pollen whe 
eee of close fertilization. For Beak: most ff 
from view. When the flower first opens, we may obs 
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hear our agricultural friends complain, that they cannot 
succeed in keeping pure some choice varieties of vege- 
tables, in consequence of the pollen from some common 
stock being wafted or carried to the pure variety, and th 
contaminating it? Mr. Darwin has lately proven in the 
case of the genus Linum, or Flax, that though the stigma 
of a flower be completely dusted over with its own pollen, — 
age to its own ap a is absolute in this case, we ma 
are familiar with the general | habit of our common Law 
(Kalmia). We remember, also, that when in bloom, 
shows us a waving sea of beautiful, rose-colored flowe 
growing so closely together as to almost hide the le 
stamen, so that an. anther is. included i in each p 
Every stamen represents a spring just ready to fly to- 
natural position of rest, when ey cose. An insect 
