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The following quotations are taken from Darwin on this subject: 1 

 " Gartner quotes two separate accounts of branches of dark and white- 

 fruited vines which had been united in various ways, such as being split 

 longitudinally, and then joined, etc.; and these branches produced distinct 

 bunches of grapes of the two colors, and other bunches of grapes either 

 striped, or of an intermediate and new tint. Even the leaves in one case 

 were variegated. "•••"! should not have quoted the following case 

 had not the author of 'Des Jacinths' (Amsterdam, 176V>, page 124) 

 impressed me with the belief, not only of his extensive knowledge, 

 but of his truthfulness: he says that bulbs of blue and red hyacinths may 

 be cut in two, and that they will grow together and throw up a united 

 stem (and this I have myself seen), with flowers of two colors on the 

 opposite sides. But the remarkable point is, that flowers are sometimes 

 produced with the two colors blended together, which makes the case 

 closely analogous with that of the blended colors of the grapes on the 

 united vine-branches. " " Mr. R. Frail stated in 1867, before the 

 Botanical society of Edinburgh (and has since given me fuller informa- 

 tion), that several years ago he cut about sixty blue and white potatoes 

 into halves through the eyes or buds and then carefully joined them, 

 destroying at the same time the other eyes. Some of these united tubers 

 produced white and others blue tubers; and it is probable that in these 

 cases the one half alone of the bud grew. Some, however, produced 

 tubers partly white and partly blue; and the tubers from about four or 

 five were regularly mottled with the two colors. In these latter cases we 

 may conclude that a stem had been formed by the union of the bisected 

 bulbs; and as tubers are produced by the enlargement of subterranean 

 branches arising from the main stem, their mottled color apparently 

 afforded clear evidence of the intimate commingling of the two varieties." 

 "I have repeated these experiments," says Darwin, "on the potato and on 

 the hyacinth, on a large scale, but with no success. " 



In the Gardeners' Chronicle for 1882, vol. XVII, page 636, it is stated 

 that a new variety of sugar cane had been produced in Brazil by graft- 

 hybridization, two pieces of cane, cut lengthwise, having been joined 

 together. The editor, M. T. Masters, regards the case as doubtful, and 

 states that no good evidence exists that grafting of any kind is possible 

 in monocotyledons. "WooDROW, in his " Gardening in India," page 61, 

 makes the same statement. 



F. W. Burbidge states 1 that black, white, and red or striped grapes 

 have been produced on the same bunch by splicing the brances of a black- 

 berried and a white-berried vine together, and analogous effects have been 

 produced by grafting the tubers of red and white potatoes. 



S. Folsom says in the Couniry Gentleman, 1873, page 582: " I united a 

 sweet scion with a sour — both large and delicious apples — and so grafted 

 the two on a Fall Pippin tree that they united in a single branch. The 

 sweet graft was a red apple; the sour as near white as any apple you 

 will see, and the Pippin is a green-colored fruit. My cross, which fruited 

 in 1871, and again in 1872, has distinct portions of sour and distinct 

 portions of sweet in the same apple, and is green in color. Beyond this 

 it bears no resemblance to either of the fruits from which it was produced. 

 Small, knurly, bitter, it is the most undesirable apple I ever tasted." 



In the Gardeners' Chronicle for 1874, page 121, occurs the following: 

 " Mr. Chaffee of Attica, New York, says his neighbor, Asa Jones, was in 

 the reputed habit of uniting the grafts of a sweet and a sour apple so as 



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