354 Appendix. 



shoots green, and all the flowers white, but some oranges 

 were very sweet, and some very sour. He adds that this 

 " Bizarria " can be mu Itiplied by grafting, but it varies much. 

 It is as inconstant as it is strange. Mr. Huard, "orangiste," 

 of Paris, had one in 1818, which was forty years old, and on 

 which were mixed fruits, and pure citrons. It was grafted on 

 the citron, and would probably end by producing only the 

 latter. 



In pi. 52 of Risso and Poiteau, p. 79 (new edition by Du 

 Breuil, 1872), this "melangola Bizarria" has two kinds of fruit 

 one is half orange-like and half citron-like, and the other 

 with parts citron-like, alternating with parts which are lemon- 

 like ; some flowers are white, and some purple, but the leaves 

 in the plate appear all of one kind, although in the text it is 

 stated that they are often curled or deformed, with the 

 petiole either naked or frequently winged, while the fruit is 

 sometimes ordinary, and sometimes partly Sevilles ; partly 

 lemons or citrons ; and the pulp in some very sweet, and in 

 others acid and bitter. 



I don't think I ever examined a citrus tree in India from 

 which I could not gather leaves that resembled those of 

 some other variety. Each tree would appear to reproduce 

 among its own typical foliage, leaves, so to speak, of former 

 ancestors. So that a diversity of foliage in the citrus is, I 

 should say, a very common occurrence. I have given in the 

 Atlas many forms taken from the same tree. 



Darwin, in " Animals and Plants under Domestication," 

 (2nd Edition, vol. i. p. 417), under the heading of Graft 

 hybrids, says, " The famous bizarria orange offers a strictly 

 parallel case to that of Cytisus Adami. The gardener, who 

 in 1644, in Florence, raised this tree, declared that it was a 

 seedling, which had been grafted, and after the graft had 

 perished the stock sprouted, and produced the bizarria* 

 Gallesio, who carefully examined several living specimens, 

 and compared them with the description given by the 

 original describer, P. Nato, states that the tree produces, at the 

 same time, leaves, flowers and fruit, identical with the bitter 

 orange, and with the citron of Florence, and likewise compound 



* I would respectfully ask If the graft perished, how could it affect 

 the stock, and give rise to a graft-hybrid ' ? 



