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long experience in grafting fruit trees, roses and otlier 

 plants teaches us that the stock has no perceptible 

 influence on tlie scion, and that both retain their character 

 unaltered. Bizzarrias have been known since the middle 

 of the se^■enteenth centur\-. Th;-^' must ahvaAS have 

 attracted attention on account of their peculiarities. The 

 first Bizzarria to be described was one grown in the 

 Panciatichi Gardens at Florence in 1()44. In I7II the 

 '•Academie des Sciences" investigated this plant and 

 came to the conclusion that it was as much a distinct 

 species as the Orange or L 



cmon. 



There is a small tree grown in our northern gardens 

 which is as peculiar as the Bizzarria luid whose origin 

 is equally obscure. It is a Laburnum, called Cvfi.s/is 

 Adaini after the French gardener \\\\o introduced it. 

 This graceful and interesting tree is eas^- to grow, so 

 that no garden-lover need be without one. The maiorit\' 

 of its llo\'i'er-clusters are like those of the common 

 Laburnum {J.J\hsiis l^ahiiriiiim) but of a dull red colour. 

 Some t^\igs bear bunches of pure mellow flowers, while 

 others have solitary- purple ilowers. The twigs on which 

 these latter grow arc differenth' shaped, -with smaller 

 leaves resembling another species of C^'tisus. C. purpiirciis. 

 Lasth' this plant produces clusters of flowers some of 

 which are acUow, some red and others half red and half 

 _yello\A'. Onh' those blossoms which resemble Cxlisiis 

 Labuniiim and C piirpiireiis produce seed; the others, 

 like those of so man^- h\-brids, are barren. Most author- 

 ities are inclined to the opinion now that Cytisiis 

 Adaiui is a peculiar h\brid between C. Lahiirnum and 



