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often does, the new creationjis encouraged by 

 nature; then time and environment fix it, and 

 man comes on the scene, perhaps ages later, and 

 discovers it, and, not knowing all the facts, won- 

 ders where the connecting links have gone. It is 

 botanically classified as a new species, which it is 

 most certainly. 



''In cultivated plants the life struggle is 

 removed, and here we find variation almost the 

 rule rather than the exception. 



''Varieties are the product of fixed laws, never 

 of chance, and with a knowledge of these laws we 

 can improve the products of nature, by employing 

 nature's forces, in ameliorating old or producing 

 new species and varieties better adapted to our 

 necessities and tastes. Better food, more sunshine, 

 less arduous competition, will of themselves induce 

 variation in individual plants which will be more or 

 less transmitted to their seedlings, which, selected 

 consecutively through a certain number of gene- 

 rations, will become permanent. Environment 

 here exerts an influence as in all chemical cosmical 



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