100 BUD-VAKIATIQX. Chap. XL 



one case produced during two successive years v and no doubt 

 permanently) spurs which bore white Frontignan grapes. In 

 another case, on the same footstalk, the lower berries "were well- 

 coloured black Frontignans; those next the stalk were white, 

 with the exception of one black and one streaked berry;" and 

 altogether there were fifteen black and twelve white berries on the 

 same stalk. In another kind of grape, black and amber-coloured 

 berries were produced in the same cluster. 7 Count Odart describes 

 a variety which often bears on the same stalk small round and 

 large oblong berries; though the shape of the berry is generally 

 a fixed character. 8 Here is another striking case given on the 

 excellent authority of M. Carriere : 9 "a black Hamburg grape 

 (Frankenthal) was cut down, and produced three suckers; one 

 of these was layered, and after a time produced much smaller 

 berries, which always ripened at least a fortnight earlier than 

 the others. Of the remaining two suckers, one produced every 

 year fine grapes, whilst the other, although it set an abundance 

 of fruit, matured only a few, and these of inferior quality." 



Gooseberry (li'ibes gro^ularia). — A remarkable case has been 

 described by Dr. Lindley 10 of a bush which bore at the same time 

 no less than four kinds of berries, namely, hairy and red, — smooth, 

 small and red,— green, — and yellow tinged with buff; the two 

 latter kinds had a different flavour from the red berries, and their 

 seeds were coloured red. Three twigs on this bush grew close 

 together ; the first bore three yellow berries and one red ; the 

 second twig bore four yellow and one red ; and the third four red 

 and one yellow. Mr. Laxton also informs me that he has seen 

 a Eed Warrington gooseberry bearing both red and yellow fruit 

 on the same branch. 



Currant (Bibes rubrum). — A bush purchased as the Champagne, 

 which is a variety that bears blush-coloured fruit intermediate 

 between red and white, produced during fourteen years on separate 

 branches and mingled on the same branch, berries of the red, white, 

 and champagne kinds. 11 The suspicion naturally 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 the foregoing complex 

 case of the gooseberry this view is doubtful. In France, a branch 

 of a red-currant bush, about ten years old, produced near the 

 summit five white berries, and low T er down, amongst the red berries, 



7 Gardener's Chron.,' 1852, p. 629 ; 10 ' Gardener's Chronicle,' 1855, pp. 

 1856, p. 6±8; 1864, p. 986. Other 597,612. 



cases are given by Braun ' Rejuvene- n k Gardener's Chron.,' 18+2, p. 



seence,' in 'Kay Sue. Bot. Mem.,' 873 ; 1855, p. 646. la the ' Chroni- 



1853, p. 314. cie,' p. 876, Mr. P. Mackenzie states 



8 ' Ampelographie,'&c, 1849, p. 71. that the bush still continues to bear 

 D 'Gardener's Chronicle,' 1866, p. the thrpp kinds of fruit, *' although 



H70. they ha>e not been every year alike. 



