[May 11, 1895, 
588 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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bute, Assuming the history of the Cineraria to the restricted sense of the term, i.e., a bud 
EDITORIAL NOTICES. be open to question, no such doubt as to the tion in a Cineraria, though we have been on 
— at look- en such productions. 
aby of the present race of tuberous ee 
xists. The original speoies have been introduoed 
within the memory of the present generation. 
The details of the crosses that have been effecte 
have been so accurately recorded that we mpar 
the history of these plants is better known than 
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te ee 3 nape th th ilar plant, unless 
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. mente Ni we ed cites it be the greenhouse Rhododendrons of Messrs. 
of interest to our readers, or of any matters which it is 
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APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. Ta 
MEETIN hardly one of which is now seen in gardens even 
TUESDAY, | May 1 if Meee, at Dil 9 oe we! at Kew. These Begonias, then, afford excellent 
Street, Westmi material for use in the disoussion of the questions 
FRIDAY, May 17—Royal Botanic Society, Lecture. alluded Whilst the Begonias offer a marked 
SHOW instance of the variation due from intercrossing, 
WEDNESDAY, May 154 Soya! Botanic susiny > Summer 
We do not recall 
any in ce of an asexual bud-variation in an 
siak] ait or in any plant grown and tr 
been cultivated for centuries, as the Rose, 
Camellia, or the Carnation,“ sports” ee. aqt 
ases "the result of atavism, or a 
den ot previously- blended charact 
recent and designed pace sare andt 
which ocour in plants which may have b 
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TUESDAY, 
` WEDNESDAY, May 15 
FRIDAY, ae 
ING WEEK, DEDUCED FROM THE OBSERVATIONS 
OF FORTY-THREE YEARS, AT CHISWICK.—54’.3. 
AN a ogee discussion is being 
Sports and 
~ Seedlings. 
. Cineraria. On the one band, Mr. DYER 
t the varieties now so numerous 
horticultural eee tending to show that 
more than one species has been neee in 
the produotion of this favourite flow This 
we imagine to have been the general option yer 
the appearance of Mr. Rotrx’s article in 
pages in 1888, vol. iii., p. 657, illustrated Acts 
cut, which we reproduce on 
many forms of Anthurium 5 were 
not produced by selection only, prior to the irru 
tion of numerous varieties as a atin of cross- 
breeding. So also the innumerable forms of the 
Chinese Primrose are 3 from the un- 
crossed species, and it is se ee that no 
success has at presen 
581. 
in a position to be able to test the er- of — 
statements made by Mr. BATESON 
done, but 
If the Gais is the n descendant of 
Cineraria cruenta only, there is an excellent 
opportunity of demonstrating the fact, for the 
plant is well cultivated at Kew. It is so well “ e. and “sporting,” 
or if the 
cultivated, indeed, that, if we mistake not, the n them i hie 
ey 
that they would limit their 
to r 
plants already show evidence of modification eee to bud-variations proper. Among 
as a result of good cultivation only. At any gardeners, althou ugh the often 
rate, it can hardly be said that our illustra- loosel „ yet there inant 
tion on p. 581 adequately represents the plant 
as it may be seen now in No. 4 house at Kew, those asexual variations which occur suddenly 
e main object of the discussion to which on the vegetative shoots without obvious 
we have alluded, we take it, is to ascertain the cause, It is clear that such erg 
importance of gradaally sovuniulated selection different egory from sexual or seedling 
ot variations either of specific or of crossed origin. 
Mr. Barzson, we see, uses the term sport in 
reference to he means 
breeding. This is seedling 
which ee are in a position to oontri- variations; we have never seen a “sport” in 
Fic. 83.—scHINUS MOLLE AT GRAHAMSTOWN, S, AFSICA, 
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crossed at one period of their existe 
recently, but long ago. If the notion 
sports result from an Ai of p 
blended characters be true, then self. fe 
plants should not produce sports, a point 
fraught with difficulty, for who 
whether or not a self-fertilised plant 
have been crossed at some time ? 
containing cells burst, 
ejected, diffasing an agree 
is frequently grown here in botanic 78. 
