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seedsmen's catalogues. Such statements relate, of course, 

 only to practical and not to absolute constancy. It suf- 

 fices that the harvests justify a reasonable hope that 

 a certain number of variegated individuals will occur 

 amongst the seedlings. Information as to the magni- 

 tude of this proportion is rarely given. Godron found 

 Acer striatum varicgatum to repeat the anomaly in only 

 one-third of its seedlings.^ Viviand-Morel found only 

 occasional variegated specimens amongst five hundred 

 seedlings of Hedera Helix variegata and only one 

 amongst fifty of variegated Yucca, the majority being 

 green. ^ Pepin states that the seeds of Sophora japonic a 

 foVus raricgatis always give rise to more variegated than 

 green plants '? but in the case of these and similar data 

 we know nothing, as a rule, as to whether the seeds have 

 been derived from individuals which had been isolated. 

 Pollock sowed the seeds of a variegated plant of Ballofa 

 nigra which he had found wild and obtained thirty per 

 cent variegated seedlings. In the next generation the 

 seeds of these, however, gave 60% of variegated indi- 

 viduals.^ The plant is now on the market and from the 

 commercial seed I raised 25% variegated and 75% green 

 plants. The seeds of a variegated specimen of Chrysan- 

 themum inodormn found near Amsterdam produced 65 

 plants in my garden, of which 5% were variegated whilst 

 17 produced spotted leaves during the course of the 

 summer, and the rest were green (1893). From the 

 seeds of a variegated Luuaria biennis I raised green 

 plants onl>; (1893) and I obtained the same result in 



^Mem. Acad. Stanislas, 1873. 



^ Lyon horticolc, 1893, p. 144. 



'Verlot^ loc. cit., p. 75. 



* Darwin^ Variations of Animals and Plants, T, p. 409. 



