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302 The Vegetable Individual, in its relation to Species. 
mary trunk is known with perfect certainty. It can be proved 
by history that many hybrids and varieties have been produced 
in one single exemplar; though they now ornament our gardens 
far and wide, having increased by means of slips, as they do not 
bear seeds. This was-the case of the famous Cytisus Adami, 
which sprung, shortly before the year 1825, from the mingling’ 
of C. purpureus and C Laburnum. The single parent- -stock, 
the view just stated, they all form but one individual ! To 
support such a view, its partisans adduce the fact of certain 
individual particularities being preserved (in dicecious plants espe- 
cially the gender), when propagated by slips. In general this is 
rue, and for practical gardening, e. g. for musa privet of the. 
finer kinds of fruit, of the greatest importance; but exceptions 
are not rare; among which the well known inciviind of Cytisus 
ami into its two primary stocks is one of the most striking 
and remarkable. In our “gardens the rule is that from slips the 
flo wers. Since up oi tg aaa no male passionate had 
duced.t Besides these cases, a curled varieny of weeping 
Saliz crispa or S. annularis of the gardens, is 
as it is a mere garden plant, has probably been pr oak [ 
sel a acne i hon be true that we sometimes obtain 
hanging branches from several kinds o S 
the slips iicrtcd, we should have one of the 
* Cf Verjii 397 and 3. In another place I shall cot 
this since been investigated. 
me tree was che aie @. Schimper in 1827 re upon it = 
‘Tiburgensis, Vo z GA 
— found in — Flora. 
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