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The results of this trial are that we have seven distinct 
varieties of lettuce, all originating from seed from the same 
plant. While in the case of the Curled Cutting and the 
Deacon there is a possibility of the seed having been blown 
in from adjoining rows, yet in view of the care exercised, 
and that these plants all occupied their proper position in 
the row, and as it is not more surprising to assume that 
these known varieties would appear than it is to observe 
the appearance of the unknown to us Lactuca sylvestre, I 
think we may assume that their appearance represents a 
true conclusion, and that is that the influence of the cross 
was to produce both a near and a remote atavism ; and we 
may reasonably conclude that the unnamed forms represent 
forms which might receive identification were we well 
enough acquainted with varieties which have been and are 
now grown. 
Similar notes have been taken with what may be sup- 
posed to have beena crossed melon. In 1885 a Hackensack 
melon, to all appearances, and of most excellent quality, 
was produced from the seed of the Christiana melon. This 
year the seed from this Hackensack melon produced nearly 
its full crop of a fruit which may be the true White Japan. 
There is, however, one fruit of the Hackensack form, and 
there are two that resemble the Christiana. The melon of 
the Hackensack type, however, has salmon flesh instead of 
the paler green flesh of the true variety, while those of the 
White Japan have the pale green flesh which belongs to 
that variety. 
CABBAGE. 
‘In 1821, M. Augustin Pyramus De Candolle read _ before 
the Horticultural Society of London a memoir on the dif- 
ferent Species, Races, and Varieties of the Genus Brassica, 
in which he adopted a classification which is sufficiently 
detailed to serve in a large measure the purposes of an 
agricultural classification, especially for the heading class. 
His classification of the species is as below: 
SPECIES. BRASSICA OLERACHA. 
First Race. —Brassica oleracea sylvestris. Wild Cabbage. 
Second Race.—Brassica oleracea acephala. Tall or Open Cabbage. 
Third Race.—Brassica oleracea bullata. Blistered Cabbage. 
Fourth Race.—Brassica oleracea capitata. Round-headed Cabbage. 
Fifth Race.—Brassica oleracea caulo-rapa. Turnip Cabbage. 
Sixth Race.—Brassica oleracea botrytis. Flowering Cabbage. 
The second race corresponds to our Kales, the third to 
our Savoys, the fourth to the Cabbage proper, the fifth to 
the Kohl-rabi, the sixth to our Brocolis and Cauliflowers. 
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