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produce a flower of a different colour, as a bud 

 of a white variety producing a pink or yellow 

 flower.) Occasionally a variety will sport 

 the first or second year after its origin from 

 seed, but generally it does not take place 

 until several years have elapsed, and then 

 often simultaneously in remote localities. 

 This has occurred in this country, the most 

 marked case being that of Mrs. Jerome 

 Jones sporting to yellow. 



It need not surprise any one cultivating 

 chrysanthemums to notice a plant producing 

 flowers of two distinct colours. Sometimes 

 the sport flowers will be one half the original 

 colour (the flower being of two colours), 

 and again possibly another bloom will be 

 of the new colour entire. It has been 

 reported that plants sometimes sport in 

 form — that is, give a flower of entirely 

 different form from that originally possessed, 

 such as an incurved variety sporting to a 

 reflexed form. Such cases are, at least, few 

 and far between. In fact, we are inclined 

 to disbelieve that such changes have really 

 taken place. Cultural conditions often 

 change the form of flowers materially, and 

 also the kind of bud selected; doubtless 



