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the cabbage rose, and sometimes returns to the original form, 

 presenting a smooth calyx. He had known the White Four 

 Seasons, one of the mossiest of all, to sport back both in regard 

 to color and mossiness and to become smooth and rose-colored. 



Marshall F. Wilder said that he fully believed that these sports 

 had been the means of giving us some of the most beautiful things 

 we possess. His experience confirmed the theory that self-colored 

 sports are made permanent by grafting off, and do not vary. He 

 exhibited two sports of his seedling camellia, Mrs. Abby Wilder, 

 which he had named Abby Tryphosa Wilder and Grace Sherwin 

 Wilder, the former of which had been sent out in Europe as a new 

 variety under the name of Queen of Beauties. Of one of these the 

 graft was taken from the parent plant twenty-one years ago, and 

 of the other sixteen years ago, and neither has varied. Parti- 

 colored flowers, especially, have in them the elements to produce 

 self-colored sports, but self-colored sports become permanent when 

 grafted off. Mr. Hovey does not know whether a flower of a given 

 color, from the Mrs. Anne Marie Hovey might not become per- 

 manent. He would confirm Mr. Hovey's advice to preserve all 

 beautiful sports. 



Mr. Hovey said that the first flower produced by the Mrs. Anne 

 Marie Hovey was a striped one. The top was inarched off twenty- 

 one years ago, and is now twelve feet high and six feet through. 

 This spoi't appears to be diflerent from any other. They may be 

 capable of being fixed, but they have not been in the course of 

 twenty years. The only two-colored camellias at that time was 

 jiceoniflora, which was probably one of the parents of this. 



Mr. Wilder said there was another instance of a camellia which 

 varied like Mr. Hovey's seedling, and was quite similar in color 

 and in its sports, — the Teutonia, raised about forty years ago by 

 Mr. Gruneberg, at Frankfort-on-the-Main, which he exhibited at 

 Vienna with nine variegated flowers on the plant, and for which he 

 received a gold medal at Vienna and also one at P'rankfort. Mr. 

 Wilder said he would like to have Mr. Hovey take a graft from a 

 shoot producing a white flower, and another from a shoot bearing 

 a rose-colored flower, and graft them into separate stocks, mark- 

 ing them carefully to see whether the colors would be permanent. 

 'J'he plant which he bought as the Mrs. Anne Marie Hovey had 

 not sported with him, as with Mr. Hovey. 



In answer to an inquiry by William Gray, Jr., Mr. Wilder said 



