Note 17 — Chapter IX · CULTIVATED PLANTS: CEREAL AND CULINARY PLANTS.

See, for example, Mr. Hewett C. Watson’s remarks on our wild plums and cherries and crabs: ‘Cybele Britannica,’ vol. i. pp. 330, 334, etc. Van Mons (in his ‘Arbres Fruitiers,’ 1835, tom. i. p. 444) declares that he has found the types of all our cultivated varieties in wild seedlings, but then he looks on these seedlings as so many aboriginal stocks.