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there are so many other plants giving more certain examples of the 

 phenomena. Yet occasionally it is impossible to neglect a demonstra- 

 tion, such an one I found in my family 213 (of which more to come). 

 Here last May, 40 plants were normal — 6 appeared normal, 6 showed 

 signs of variegation, 8 were variegated, 5 chosen as normal have grown 

 well and remained normal. Five of the doubtfully variegated have 

 shown variegation, the remaining doubtful plants have not grown well. 

 This looks like 46 normal to 14 variegated, which may very well be 45 

 to 15, or 3 to 1. I found the fruit of some of the variegated plants was 

 mottled, but other fruits on the same plants were not. The only clue 

 I have to this "sporting" is the fact that some of my selfed Royal 

 Sovereigns were variegated, and accordingly the descendants may carry 

 this character. 



Fruit-Flavour. In the pedigree given below I quote the parents of 

 garden varieties as generally accepted and have no reason to doubt them. 

 In any case they are not all important. 



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Filbert Pine selfed in 1909, out of 100 plants only 30 had fruit the 

 quality of which could be estimated in 1911 and 1912; of these about 

 6 had fruit with fair or good flavour. I have since devised a scale in 

 which a perfectly flavoured fruit would receive 12 marks and one with a 

 very bad flavour 1 mark. Taking the well-known plant Royal Sovereign 

 as an example, I would award it 8 marks ; but a plant with no flavour 

 would receive 6 marks. If this system had been in use I would in no 

 case have given more than 8 and in many cases but 3. Filbert Pine 

 is not a good plant as it is exceptionally liable to pests, but it has a good 

 flavour — a 9 mark one may be. 



King of the Earlies selfed in 1909, out of 100 plants only 3 had fruit 

 the quality of which could be estimated in 1912. Some people think 

 well of this plant, but I merely say " it is a matter of taste." 



Royal Sovereign selfed in 1909, out of 130 (perhaps 150 as there were 

 some little things which never grew out of the first leaf, early primitive. 



