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establishment of permanent varieties. Instances of this 

 operation of nature are likely to occur more frequently, and 

 it is therefore desirable that cultivators should be correctly 

 informed as to what points they are to attend, both in pro- 

 pagating the sport, and observing on what they may consider 

 as such. On the appearance of a sporting branch, part of it 

 should be taken off for propagation in the season of its 

 appearance, because it is not certain, though probable, that 

 a sporting shoot will be produced by the old plant in the 

 next year, and as the branches are only annual, the increase 

 of the sport by cuttings must not be deferred to the spring. 

 The sport never deviates from the shape and character of 

 the leaves, nor from the habit of' the parent plant; the 

 flowers alone are altered, and this is done either by change 

 of colour, or by conversion of quilled into expanded, or of 

 expanded into quilled florets. 



The sporting plants already noticed, are, 1st. The Purple, 

 which produced* the Changeable White in England. 2nd. 

 The Expanded Light Purple, and the Quilled Light Purple, 

 which having been importedf from China separately, it 

 cannot be ascertained here, which was the original. 3rd. The 

 Curled Lilac, from which the Curled Pink has lately been ob- 

 tained in our Gardens, as noticed in this Paper, and 4th. The 

 Buff or Orange, which sported in China to the Rose or Pink : 

 these two kinds were separately imported^ though the latter 

 was produced subsequently in this country from the Buff or 

 Orange, which is therefore § considered the original. This 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. iv. page 336. 

 t See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. v. page 153, 154, and 155. 

 % See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. iv. page 344, 345, and 346. 

 § See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. v. page 416. 



