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But Hyde was no coward; so then, it was not long ere he put all fears and doubts behind him and set his musings to the assertion: "I said to my heart, last night, that I would meet Cornelia at Richmond Hill this morning. I will not go back on my word. Such fluctuability is only fit for failure."

The personal characters that have been stamped on this one seed, partly by its descent, and partly in the development of its germ during the period of ripening, have become the indelible characters of the variety, and only the partial fluctuability, due to the effect of later influences, can now be studied statistically.

Its individual fluctuability has been limited to the earliest period of its life, when it arose from an unknown seed.

In order to reach this, one has to recur to the individual fluctuability, and therefore to seed. Nearly half a century ago, Parris discovered, on the island of Barbados, that seeds might occasionally be gathered from the canes. These, however, yielded only grass-like plants of no real value. The same observation was made shortly afterwards in Java and in other sugar producing countries.

If individuals would show the same range as that of partial fluctuability, then the choice of the extremes would at once bring the average up to the richness of the best stocks. Once attained, this average would be fixed, without further efforts. Unfortunately there is one great drawback. This is the infertility of the best variety, that of the "Cheribon" cane.