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Yellow to Yellow.* 

 Annie Salter .... 

 Mme. Loderan (sulphur) 

 Golden Empress of India . 

 Mme. Desgrange (sulphur to white) 



Sport, Orange Annie Salter. 



„ Mrs. M. Eussell (deep yellow). 

 ,, Mrs. Kobinson King (deep yellow). 

 ,, Mrs. Burrell (pale yellow). 



G. Wormig (yellow). 



H. Hawkins (golden yellow). 

 John Lambert (straw). 



„ Ed. Parker. 



Golden Geo. Glenny. 

 Mr. Bunnf (deeper yellow). 

 ,, Golden Dr. Brock. 

 „ A. H. Wood (light yellow). 



- Though bronze-coloured sports have 

 bearing yellow flowers, yet, as will be 

 come more readily on plants with pink 



G. Wormig (yellow) 

 Lord Alcester (primrose) 

 Miss M. A. Haggas 

 Mr. G. Glenny (sulphur) 

 Golden Beverley . 

 Dr. Brock (orange yellow) 

 Primrose League . 



Bronze Sports.- 

 arisen from plants 

 seen, they appear to 

 flowers : — 



Yellow to Bronze. 

 Mrs. Norman Davis (golden yellow) Sport, Chs. Gibson (deep bronze red, 



with cinnamon fawn centre). 

 Jardin des Plantes (yellow) . . ,, Bronze Jardin des Plantes. 

 Mr. Bunn (yellow) . . . . „ Beauty of Hull (bronze). 



Sports from Reds.— These may be of various tints, and are 

 common. Reds appear to have followed yellows in the natural 

 evolution of colours, but, as a rule, the groups of reds and 

 their allies, which include purples and mauves, are due to 

 coloured fluids, in the cells, whereas yellows are due to solid 

 granules. As with yellows, so with reds a common form of 

 sport is simply a deepening of the tint t — 



Beds, &c, to Beds, &c. 

 Prince of Wales (dark violet purple) Sport, Cobay (ruby red). 



Queen of England 

 Miss Mary Morrant (pink) 

 Dr. Sharpe (crimson purple) . 

 Novelty (blush) 

 Viviand Morel (mauve) . 

 Miss V. Tomlin (violet purple) 

 Princess of Wales (rosy blush) 

 Surprise (rosy flesh) 



Alfred Salter. 

 Mrs. Marigold (flesh-coloured). 

 E. Smith (crimson). 

 Alfred Lyne (rose-li!ac / 

 Lady Hanbare (cerise). 

 Lucy Kendall (coral red). 

 Miss V. Tomlin (violet purple). 

 Gain of the Museum (deep lilac). 



The last, mentioned by M. Carriere in 1856, bore in 1862 

 one branch with pure white flowers ; on another were flowers 



* The total number of sports recorded in this paper is 100 ; so that the 

 number in each group is the percentage of that kind, and shows the degree 

 of frequency. 



f A root-sport. 



+ Haworth, in a paper on Chrysanthemums in the " Horticultural 

 Cabinet" for 1833, p. 73, mentions that the " rose " or "pink " sports to 

 " paler pink " for "deeper pink," also to buff, copper, or light orange, and 

 thence to bright yellow, i.e. complete reversion. 



