for January, 1921 



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 Rosanda for 1921 is another of this 

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We keep our stock absolutely clean. 

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etc. It will be noticed that species, varie- 

 ties and races, as defined above, are all 

 capable of holding their own in the struggle 

 for existence, and may be spoken of as 

 "natural" groups. 



Sports are entirely different, and form a 

 distinct category in the world of trees. A 

 sport is usually a solitary phenomenon, aris- 

 ing either as a sporadic seedling from a 

 single seed or developing out of a bud on a 

 tree, as a single branch with some peculiar- 

 ity of twig or leaf. A sport then is a freak 

 of unknown causation, not forming a start- 

 ing point of a new species, as is believed by 

 some evolutionists, but speedily becoming 

 extinct if left to Nature. .\11 the sports in 

 trees arc plainly cases of misdirected de- 

 velopment ; something has gone wrong in 

 the ovule or bud. Many sports are due to 

 arrested development. The tree in its 

 course from birth to old age passes through 

 stages which are comparable to those of an 

 insect ; the seedling often differs from the 

 adult form as a larva does from a butterfly. 

 The juvenile Ash seedling has simple leaves. 

 The sport known as the One-Leaf Ash is 

 simply a seedling .Ash which has never 

 progressed to maturity, and mav be called a 

 persistent larval form. The Irish Yew was 

 found in 1767 as a solitary seedling on a 

 mountain in Fermanagh and is character- 

 ized by all the branches being directed ver- 

 tically and all the leaves spreading radially. 

 This is also the seedling stage preserved. 

 The seedling of the Yew is unbranched in 

 Its first year, producing only a leading shoot. 

 In fastigiate trees, like the Irish Yew, no 

 true branches are ever produced, the ap- 

 parent "branches" being merely reduplica- 

 tions of the loading shoot, of 'which they 

 preserve the direction and the characteristic 

 foliage. In the Fastigiate Oak the leaves 

 are different from those of the normal tree 

 being similar to those borne by leading 

 shoots. 



Sports, which are of no significance in 

 Nature, are often of interest to man, who 

 cultivates them for use or ornament. They 

 are propagated by grafts, layers or cuttings, 

 though, in rare cases, they may be propa- 

 gated by seeds. Many sports are of great 

 economic value, as seedless fruits like the 

 Banana, which are plainly of no value in 

 Nature. Amongst trees sports are usually 

 bizarre, and seldom useful : but many are 

 ornamental, particularly those with varie- 

 gated foliage. 



-Amongst the sports which are i)arlicu- 

 Urly beautiful in this respect are the Silver 

 Holly fvar. arii.-ntea regim). which has 

 pure white leaves. There are similar sports 

 m the French Elm (Uhnus nitens) and the 

 fcnghsh Elm (U. campcstris) . Two Silver 

 English Elms in Kew Gardens are above 

 50 feet Ingh. _ In ihe case of the Lime, the 

 (Continued on page 446) 



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