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No 1. Not satisfactory for the purposes specified.

" 2. The staining is here an obstruction to study rather than a
help.

No. 3. This good.

No 4. Worthless, too thick and over stained.

No 5. This good.

No 6. This pretty good. Contains many reticulated vessels also.

" 7. Too thick.

No 8. The two sections not taken from equally old parts of stem.
The longitudinal–section too thick for study.
The cross section very good.

No 9. Too thick. The common impression of preparations
that sections of few stems must be made diagonally is an [?]
- never one. Then should be for study good cross and longitudinal
sections, as in the care of all other things of plants.

No 10. A very good specimen so far as it goes but it should be supplemented
by a cross section of same part of stem as these
longitudinal sections were taken from.

No 11. Pretty good so far as it goes; a little too thick. Should have
a longitudinal section.

No 12. Good.

" 13. Good. Although a bit of epidermis peeled off
from the leaf and the stains would be much better,
and far less troublesome to prepare.

No 14 Good

No 15 Good, but same criticism holds as for No 13.

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