Sports and Other Variations. 



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'THOUSAND SPARKS." SHOWN IN JAPAN. 



secured, and in the following season the new flowers may 

 appear ; but on the other hand, the old flowers may appear in 

 their stead, and one may discover that so far as raising a new 

 variety is concerned, all his labor is lost. It may happen that 

 the new flowers appeared upon a sucker from the root, in 

 which case the chances for success are greater than when 

 they appear upon bearing wood. 



Another excellent plan when a sport is discovered, is to 

 take the plant to a propagating house, turn it out of the pot, 



