By Joseph Sabine, Esq, 



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latter has been either directly, or through the medium of 

 the Rose or Pink, the parent of other sports. The actual 

 origin of the Small Yellow has not,* and probably now cannot 

 be ascertained precisely, but from its frequently producing 

 branches bearing flowers of the Rose or Pink, it probably 

 sprang immediately from that kind. The Pale Pink is 

 known to have originated from the Rose or Pink. 



To some persons, the having plants producing sporting 

 branches may be a matter of amusement ; for this purpose 

 sporting plants should be procured, and as such they are best 

 kept against a south wall ; but it must be recollected,f that 

 the reproduction of sporting branches by any particular plant 

 is not to be depended on. In this way the Changeable White 

 sporting to Purple, the Orange sporting to Pink, the Small 

 Yellow sporting to Pink, which frequently occurs, and the 

 Curled Lilac sporting to Curled Pink, have fallen under my 

 observation in the Garden of the Horticultural Society. The 

 reverse of all these may also perhaps be occasionally seen, and 

 it may be possible to find an Original Orange Plant, or an 

 Original Pink Plant, with two or more separate branches with 

 a different sporting colour on them, viz. either Orange, Pink, 

 Yellow, or Pale Pink. Neither the Expanded Light Purple, 

 nor the Quilled Light Purple, have yet within my knowledge 

 sported in this country. 



It is most usual that the sport is an entire branch pro- 

 ceeding from the root, but I have seen instances when a 

 part of a branch has exhibited a sport. It sometimes occurs 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. v. page 416 and supra page, 

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



