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Show 376 TIUD-YAitiATION. CHAP. XI. earlier than tho others. Of the remaining two suckers, ono produced every year fmo grapes, whilst tho other, although it set an abundance of fruit, matured only a fow, and these of inferior quality. Goosebr·ny (Ribas gr-ossnluria).-A romarlmble case has been described by Dr. Lindlcy 9 of a bush which bore at tho same time no less than four kinds of berries, namely, hah·y and rcd,-smooth, small and rcd,-grccn, -and yellow tinged with buff; tho two latter kinds had a different flavour from the red berries, and their seeds were colomcd red. Three twigs on this bush grew close together; the first bore tbrco yellow berries and ono reel ; tho second twig bore fom yellow and ono red; and tho third fom red and ono yellow. Mr. Laxton also informs me that bo bas seen a llcd Warrington gooseberry bearing both rod and yellow fruit on tho same branch. Oun·ant (JNbes ruln·um).-A bush purchased as tho Champagne, which is a variety that bears blush-ooloUl'ed fruit intermediate between rod and white, produced during fomtccn years, on separate branches and mingled on tho same branol1, berries of tho red, white, and champagne kinds. 10 Tho suspicion natmally arises that this variety may have originated from a cross between a red and white variety, and that the above transformation may be accounted for by reversion to [both parent-forms; but from tho foregoing complex case· of tho gooseberry this view is doubtful. In Franco, a branch of a rcd-cmrant hush, about ton years old, produced ncar tho summit five white berries, and lower down, amongst the red berries, ono berry half rod and half whito.U Alexander Braun 12 also has often seen branches bearing red berries on white oUl'rants. Pear ( f>yrus communis).-Dmoau do la Mallo states that tho flowers on some trees of an ancient variety, tho doyenne galewx, were destroyed by frost: other flowers appeared in July, which produced six pears; these exactly resembled in their skin and taste tho fruit of a distinct variety, tho gTos dmJenne blanc, but in shape wore like tho bon-chretien : it was not ascertained whether this new variety could bo propagated by budding or grafting. Tho same author grafted a bon-chretien on a quince, and it produced, besides its proper fruit, an apparently now variety, of a peculiar form, with thick and rough skinP Apple (Pyrus malus).-In Canada, a tree of tho variety called Po1.md Sweet, produccd,H between two of its proper fruit, an apple which was wcllrussottcd, small in size, different in shape, and with a short peduncle. As no russet apple grew anywhere ncar, this case apparently cannot bo accounted for by tho direct action of foreign pollen. I shall hereafter give 9 ' Go.rclcncr's Chronicle,' 1855, pp. 507, Gl2. 10 ' Gardener's Chron.,' 1812, p. 873; 1855, p. G4G. In tho 'Chronicle,' 18G6, p. 87G, l\fr. P. l\'Iftckcnzie states that tho bush still continuos to bear the three kinds of fruit, "although they have not boon every year alike. '' H 'Revue llorticolc,' quoted iu' Card. Chronicle,' 1814, p. 87. u 'Rejuvcncl:lccncc in Nature,' 'Bot. Memoirs Ray Soc.,' 1il53, p. 314. 1a • Comptcs Rcndus,' tom. xli., 1855, p. 804. 'rl10 second case is given on the nuthority of Gauclichaud, idem, toni. xxxiv., 1852, p. 748. 14 This coso is given in the 'Go.rd. Chronicle,' 1867, p. 403. CuAr. Xl. FLOWERS. 377 cases of apple-trees which regularly produce fruit of two kinds, or halfand- half fruit; these trees aro generally supposed, and probably with truth, to bo ·of crossed parentage, and that the fruit reverts to both parent-forms. Banana (M~tsa sapientium).--Sir R. Schomburgk states that he saw in St. Domingo a racomo on tho Fig Banana which bore towards tho base 125 fl'uits of tho proper kind; and these were succeeded, as is usual, higher up tho raceme, by barron flowers, and those by 420 fruits, having a widely different appearance, and ripening earlier than tho proper fruit. The abnormal fruit closely resembled, except in being smaller, that of tho Musa Okinens-is or Oavend·is!tii, which has generally been ranked as a distinct spocios.15 FLOWEH.S.-Many cases have been recorded of a whole plant, or single branch, or bud, suddenly producing flowers different from the proper typo in colour, form, size, doubleness, or other character. llalf the flower, or a smaller segment, sometimes changes colour. Oamellict.-The myrtle-leaved species ( 0. myrtijolia), and two or three varieties of tho common species, have been ]mown to produce hexagonal and imperfectly quadrangular flowers; and the branches producing such flowers have been propagated by grafting.1n The Pompono :variety often boars "fom distinguishable kinds of flowcrs,-tho pure white and tho "red-eyed, which appear promiscuously; tho brindled pink and the rose" coloUl'od, which may be kept separate with tolerable certainty by " grafting from tho branches that bear them." A branch, also, on an old tree of tho rose-coloured variety has been seen to "revert to tho pme "white colour, an occurrence loss common than the departure from it." 1 7 Omtregus oxycantha.-A dark pink hawthorn has been known to throw out a single tuft of pure white blossoms; 18 and Mr. A. Clapham, nmsOI'Yman, of Bradford, informs me that his father had a deep crimson thorn grafted on a white thorn, which, during several years, always bore, high above tho graft, bunches of white, pink, and deep crimson flowers. Azalea lnd·ica is well known often to produce by buds now varieties. I have myself seen several cases. A plant of Azalea Indica variegata has been exhibited bearing a truss of flowers of A. Ind. Oledstanesii "as true as could possibly be procluced, thus evidencing the origin of that fino variety." On another plant of A . Ind. vat·iegctta a perfect flower of A. Incl.later-itia was produced; so that both Gleclstanesii and lctte-l'itia no doubt originally appeared as sporting branches of A. Ind. vat·iegatct.19 Cistus t?·icuspis.-A seedling of this plant, when some years old, produced, at Saharunporo,20 some branches "which bore leaves and flowers widely d:ifi'ercnt from the normal form." "The abnormal leaf is much less 15 ' Journnl of Proc. Linn. Soc.,' vol. ii. Botany, p. 131. • 16 'Garcl. Cbronic1c,' 1847, p. 207. 1i IIorbcrt, 'Amaryllid.aceoo,' 1838, p. 369. •s ' Gardener's Chronicle,' 1813, p. 391. 19 Exhibited at Hort. Soc., London. Report in ' Gardener's Cbron.; 1844, p. H37. 20 1\'Ir. W. Bell, Bot. Soc. of Ed.inburgh, May, 1863. |