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Rural New Yorker, New York, N. Y. 
Science, Cambridge, Mass. 
Scientific American, New York, N. Y. 
Southern Industries, Nashville, "Tenn. 
Springfield Weekly Republican, Springfield, Mass. 
Times-Democrat, New Orleans, La. 
Vick’s Llustrated Monthly Magazine, Rochester, N. Y. 
Washington World, Washington, D. C 
Weekly Press, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Western Farmer, Madison, Wis. 
BotTaNniIcAL NOTES. 
Double Embryos. 
‘Tomato Seed. One doubleembryo noticed in germinating seed, of the 
Livingston’s Perfection Tomato. 
Onion Seed. Double embryos were observed in onion seed of the 
White Portugal, the Queen and the Flat Madeira varieties, 
Parsley Seed. Out of one hundred seed of the Extra Double Curled 
Parsley, two had double embryos. 
Abnormal Colytedens. 
Egg Plant. Out of one hundred seedlings of each, the striped Guada- 
loupe, the Round Purple, the Blanche longue de China and White 
varieties had single plants with three seed-leaves; the Yellow had four 
such plants, and the Tomato Formed Red, three. 
Tomato. Out of one hundred seedlings of each, the Boston Market 
and Hathaway’s Excelsior had one plant each with four seed-leaves, and 
several other varieties had plants with three. 
Cabbage. In seedling cabbages occasionally but one seed-leaf appears. 
In one case noted, the terminal bud issued from the base of the single 
leaf, splitting the leaf to gain room. 
Varvety in Seedlings. 
Tomato. In Keyes’ Early Prolific, the first leaves are entire; in the 
New French Upright nearly entire; in mostof the varieties quite 
inate. 
Strawberry. Seedling plants from seed of the Bidwell and Manches- 
ter varieties have some plants with but one leaflet instead of the 
normal three leaflets. 
Cross-Fertilization. 
Cabbage. The blooms of the cabbage, fertilized with pollen of the 
winter radish, and also others with pollen of the ruta-baga, formed 
pods of full size, but devoid of seed. 
Corn. The maize plant shows in its kernels the influence of cross- 
fertilization of the same year. Some varieties seem to possess the 
power of resisting either cross-fertilization or the changes induced 
thereby. 
Beans. The varieties of the Kidney bean cross-fertilize, as seed grown 
from plants which the previous year had been adjoining other varieties 
show mixture in their crop. Some varieties, as the Refugee and the 
