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the parent. After keeping this seedling tree for some years 

 under observation, I found, to my regret at the time, that 

 it produced rather short yellow-flowered racemes, and not 

 the pink ones as I had hoped. But I was much interested 

 to note that as the tree grew it always preserved the peculi- 

 arity of these narrow leaves, and, to a very large extent, 

 the habit of tiie pink parent, or rather of the pink-flowered 

 part of the parent. I then relegated the tree to the border 

 of a planting at Newmills. I had kept about a dozen of 

 the other seedlings to see if anything should happen among 

 them, but they are all ordinar}^ Laburnums. 



When I heard Professor Weiss's record of information 

 as to the result of sowing seed such as I had sown, I inter- 

 viewed him after his lecture and told liim all about my 

 tree. Later I provided him with specimens, and of what 

 he has called " this ver}' remarkable plant " he intends to 

 make a careful examination. He also writes, " I must say 

 I have not seen any more interesting specimen in connec- 

 tion with C. Adumi than the seedling with the foliage of 

 the purple hybrid." 



I have now made a careful examination of my seedling 

 tree to see if the flowers had set, and, as it was rather late 

 in the season, I found only one seed pod containing three 

 apparently fully matured and healthy seeds. I shall see 

 what these may produce in due course. I cannot under- 

 take to give any opinion as to why one of the forty seeds 

 should have produced this tree of very distinct habit and 

 foliage from all the other seedlings of the same gathering 

 — a habit distinct from Laburnums generally, which it has 

 shown and kept from the time it started. Further, I may 

 say that although my seedling tree has not yet produced 

 any pink racemes, I am not without hope that it may do 

 so. At all events I am assured that my tree is a "new 

 departure," and for that reason I have thought it was of 

 sufficient interest to submit this note to the Society. 



