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hispida, is nndoubtedly an evolute from the wild Glycine Soya of China 
and Japan. 
Mr. Ikirbidge kindly draws niy attention to the formerly dicecious 
habit of the garden Strawberry, which, in this country, is now self-fertile. 
Mr. Keen, the famous Strawberry grower in 1809, made the mistake of 
removing all his male plants, and, having discovered the necessity of 
keeping them, planted about one male to ten females as the most profitable 
proportion. Mr. Keen wrote : " Some Strawberry plants have both male 
and female flowers on the same plant. These are not so profitable, and 
I find it more advantageous to raise my plants from seed than by suckers. 
Now, of course, we do not trouble about male plants of the Strawberry. 
In America, I believe, there is still some inconvenience on account of the 
dioecious nature of the Strawberry. 
Races that come True from Seed. 
Mons. Mottet obliges me with the following list of those which he 
considers to " come true for any number of years " : — 
Brussels Sprouts Endive 
Cos Lettuce Broad-leaved Endive (Scarole) 
Cardoon and Artichoke Cereals. 
' Celosia lylumosa 
Parsley and Cabbage Lettuce All the year round ") appear to come 
quite true from seed in my own garden. 
The Gloxinia and Chinese Primula appear to afford examples of 
perfect fixity. Mr. Leonard Sutton writes : " With reference to Eern- 
leaved Primulas, for all practical purposes the Fern-leaved strain may be 
considered in most varieties to be absolutely fixed, in fact in one or two 
varieties I never remember a palmate-leaved plant sporting from a Fern- 
leaved parent, but I cannot say that I should be surprised, even in the 
most fixed variety, to see one now and then. Of course many Fern-leaved 
varieties that have not long been in existence, and which originated from 
the other type, will for many years continue to throw palmate leaves." 
Mr. Burbidge kindly refers me to Cyclamen and Mignonette under 
this head. 
Mr. Benary writes me that Asters never revert to anything like the 
original CallistepliUH cliincnsis.'' 
Bailey writes in "Plant Breeding," p. 90: — "There is no reason 
why the tree fruits should not reproduce themselves from seeds just as 
closely as the annual herbs do. . . . There is excellent proof of this in 
the well marked races or families of Russian Apples. In that country 
grafting has been little employed, and consequently it has been necessary 
to select seeds only from acceptable trees in order that the offspring 
might be more acceptable. Most of the seedlings of the Duchess of 
Oldenberg are recognisable because of their likeness to the parent. The 
* Fameuse ' type of Apples tends to perpetuate itself, and a similar tendency 
is very well marked in the Damson and Greengage Plums, the Orange 
Quince, Concord Grape^ and Hill's Chili and Crawford Peaches." 
Mons. Henri de Vilmorin writes in the Bulletin de la Societe 
Botanique de France," tome xxxv. "Th " production of true * Bles 
