TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.
Illustrations without captions have had a description added, this is denoted with parentheses.
The index was not checked for correct page references.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
| Pg. [13] | “dstinguishes” replaced with “distinguishes”. |
| Pg. [29] | “with experiment” replaced with “with the experiment”. |
| Pg. [46] | “grow” replaced with “grows”. |
| Pg. [50] | “lop over” replaced with “flop over”. |
| Pg. [86] | “sphercal” replaced with “spherical”. |
| Pg. [94] | “Chlorohyll” replaced with “Chlorophyll”. |
| Pg. [111] | “buds of the apple and” changed to “buds of the apricot and” to match figure caption. |
| Pg. [131] | “cobea” replaced with “cobaea” |
| Pg.[ 135] | “tigma” replaced with “stigma”. |
| Pg. [170] | “aranged” replaced with “arranged”. |
| Pg. [186] | “acomplished” replaced with “accomplished”. |
| Pg. [188] | “is this case” replaced with “in this case”. |
| Pp. [205,208] | Corrected location of “scion” from Pg.[ 205] to Pg. [208]. |