Excerpt from The Survival of the Unlike: A Collection of Evolution Essays Suggested by the Study of Domestic Plants
For several years it has been my habit, when called upon to address horticultural societies, to choose some topic intimately associated with the evolution of domestic plants. My motives have been several. I have chiefly desired to attempt to answer many of the common questions which puzzle horticulturists by appealing to the evidences of evolution, for I am convinced that many of these questions can be answered in no other way. I have also desired to spread a knowledge of the evolution speculations and of the methods of research which they suggest, amongst those who deal with plants and animals, and who lead a rural life. Again, I have wished to make a record of a great class of most common and significant facts vitally related to the study of organic evolution, but which are almost wholly overlooked by students and philosophers. In making these essays, I have constantly had in mind the collation and publication of them, and I have, therefore, endeavored to discuss the leading problems associated with the variation and evolution of cultivated plants, in order that the final collection should be somewhat consecutive.
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