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THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
737 
‚ Т. F. Rivers ppt to Mr. Hibberd's esti- 
acy and excellence of the Dutch 
at the French 
accomplish a brilliant succe 
Roses on a white ground. The contrast between the 
two schools, he said, need not invalidate the argu- 
Fic. 140,—APHELANDRA 
ment founded on the pictures, for it was at least fair 
to Mee - the Dutch painters put upon their 
on 
raised by his fiber, Mr. Thomas R 
had himself added, in aka E of his father's 
example; they 
dni of pure descent; the Peach had never been 
ybridised, Certainly there was no known record or 
CHRYSOPS. 
е of such an occurrence, M CB ot сэр 
еасһев pur et simple. Yet in 
Ане and not only different in i rd poss 
colour, and flavour, but in the smoothness or other- 
hum same ie Ute Үү шг, observation of fruits 
(see Р. 736.) 
tended to strengthen Mr. mgr — that 
the show Auricula is of pure d the 
Auricula of the Alps, for its range of pen is in 
ional. 
hairman (Mr. John Lee) remarked that he 
had seen white and b Grapes on the same Vine, 
and on опе or two occasions in the sam h. 
diversity of c rs in — therefore, does 
not present so great a difficulty as to many 
who were unfamiliar with the пагра of plants 
under cultivation, 
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The Rev. H. H. D'Ombrain remarked that variation 
in the Auricula was not a property of seedling plants 
alone, for established varieties, and those the most 
veral classe i 
id Was, perhaps, from the pae ps (Vm of the 
accident, more 
especially as erac 
showing how the corolla would "e into five 
petals were it to be cut down to the tu 
Mr. James Douglas ва said he had dandi an immense 
аз, & вееп а 
This — to weaken 
ent for pure cars The ety named 
ated at the ‘exhibition 
only first-rate variety out of a 
aised from seed carefully fertilised from 
housand 
p paste, for the natural yellow of the zone sur- 
rounding the eye appeared, whereas in а show flower 
constituted the paste. Another fact bearing on pedigree 
is that to raise good show selfs w t breed from 
selfs, The Rev. H. H. D'Ombrain remar 
seedlings of show varieties often flowered as selfs, to 
which Mr. Douglas re eplied, that the selfs raised 
from edged flowers were invariably bad, 
red «d err no quality as s show flowers, 
en raising varieties for 
were justified in their preference for thrum-eyes, not 
only on the score of Ó but in the fact at 
thrum wy - 
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eved 
eyed, 
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the plant. Thus his own ‘experiences and observations 
to concur with the essayist in the doctrine 
and it was just possible that at the time the striped 
flowers in-eyes were in favour. That 
the show varieties and the alpines might be 
h 
sour apart fro’ 
that may result from it,.a most interesting madera 
