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IT is a fact which has become more and more evident to the practical cultivator that the results of his efforts manifest themselves on the whole in a sort of compromise between the plant and its environment: I mean that although he sees more or less distinctly what his plant should be—according to a certain standard, however—it is but rarely, if ever, that the plant cultivated perfectly fulfils in every respect what is demanded of it. Of late years this has of course forced itself more prominently before the observer, because the facts and phenomena constituting what is termed variation have been so much more definitely described, and the questions arising out of them so much more clearly formulated.
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See NATURE, vol. xxxi. p. 183. A lecture by H. Marshall Ward, M.A., F.L.S., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge; Professor of Botany in the School of Forestry, Royal Indian College, Cooper's Hill.
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Roots 1 . Nature 34, 524–528 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034524a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/034524a0