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and margined similar to, but probably rather whiter than that of the 

 variegated chestnut usually met with. 



M. T. Masters states in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1872, page 322, that 

 variegated willows have been known to affect the stocks on which they 

 are grafted. 



In the Gardeners' Chronicle for 1887 ] is an illustrated account of a 

 variegated Ulmus campestris grafted on a green-leaved stock. The graft 

 died, but a variegated shoot arose afterward from the stock on the opposite 

 side of the stem from where the graft was inserted. 



In the following additional cases, variegation appeared in the stock after 

 the bud of the variegated variety had died: 



H. House, in The Garden, vol. IV, 1873, page 33, says. "Some twelve 

 months ago my attention was directed to a tree having golden foliage, 

 which surpassed anything of the sort I had ever seen for richness of color 

 and effect. On examination I found it to be a horse chestnut, evidently 

 suffering from disease, caused either by soil or situation. In July last I got 

 some buds from it, and worked them on some young trees, at about three 

 or four feet from the ground, a number of which have failed, but, strange 

 to say, many of the stocks have produced foliage exactly like that of the 

 parent of the scion, though the buds themselves are dead. I can not say 

 whether or not the stocks in which the buds are growing are similarly 

 affected, as it is not usual to let such stocks produce foliage, nor can I see 

 any signs of the yellow color in the growing buds. My opinion is that 

 many of the buds had not vitality enough to keep them alive through the 

 winter, but that during their short period of existence they managed in 

 some way to impart the variegation to the stock, and that in the case of 

 the growing buds they may have been more vigorous, and by the help of 

 the stock may have outgrown the variegation altogether. Another curious 

 thing connected with the matter is that there is not the least trace of 

 variegation in the foliage of any one of the stocks below the incision made 

 at the time of budding." 



George Syme says in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1877, page 246: 

 " Twenty-seven stocks of Fraxinus excelsior were budded with Fraxinus 

 Americana acubcefolia at heights varying from two to four feet from the 

 ground. Nearly all united readily, and looked well until the following 

 spring, when a majority of the buds separated and fell from the pieces of 

 bark that were inserted with them; only three pushed into growth. At 

 present they are all growing together as they did then, but two thirds of 

 the number are more or less completely inoculated with the coloring 

 matter of the variety propagated, below as well as above where they are 

 budded, and on all parts of the plants. " No other change in the charac- 

 ter of the leaves took place. 



In the Philosophical Transactions (Abridgement) vol. VI, part 2, page 

 341, is the following, as quoted by E. L. Sturtevant (Transactions 

 Massachusetts Horticultural society, 1880, page 99): "Henry Cane, in 

 April, 1692, cut off a small part of the common white jessamine, not 

 larger than a tobacco-pipe, at two joints above the ground and grafted 

 with the yellow-striped jessamine. It took, but grew feebly, and in four 

 or five weeks died, and part of the stock died also, and was cut off. The 

 next year it broke out at the joint below with several shoots of the striped 

 variety, and also made a strong shoot from the root of the striped variety. 



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