"Counterpoised" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... plurality of spikes occurs often as a result of mutilation.[387] The deviation in question might in some instances be turned to good account, as in the Triticum before mentioned or as in the broccoli shown at fig. 182, though it must be added that the apparent advantages are often counterpoised by some undesirable qualities or by some circumstance which prevents us availing ourselves ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters |
