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quantity of colouring matter, so that the flowers do not acquire 

 a pure white. Such, therefore, may even more readily revert to 

 the colour from which they may have, with some degree of 

 probability, been derived ; or, if to yellow, then it is a true 

 reversion. 



Tinted White to Various Colours. 

 Mme. J. La ; ng (rose-tinted) . Sport, Sarah Owen (golden bronze) 



Novelty (suffused rose) 

 Princess of Teck (ivory white) 



Beverley (ivory white) 



Princess of Wales (pearly white) 



White Globe (creamy white) 



Mrs. Heale (creamy white) 



Queen of England (blush) 



Lady Hardinge (delicate rose) 

 Elsie (cream -white) . 



Alfred Lyne (rosy lilac). 

 Hero of Stoke Newington (rosy 

 blush shaded with purple). 

 Lord Eversley (white, tipped with 

 green). 



Mrs. Norman Davis (golden yellow). 



Golden Beverley (canary). 



Violet Tomlin (purple rose). 



Mrs. S. Coleman (bronze). 



Mrs. Heale (cream). 



Mrs. J. Crossfield (rosy pink). 



Yellow globe. 



Miss M. A. Haggis (yellow). 

 Mary Tomlin (deep pink). 

 Golden Queen of England. 

 Emily Dale (straw). 

 Mrs. H. Shipman (fawn). 

 Golden Elsie. 



Sport Families. — It is well known that some Chrysanthe- 

 mums sport much more freely than others. As an illustration 

 the " Queen of England " is probably the best, and I am indebted 

 to Mr. C. Harman Payne for supplying me with the following 

 interesting genealogical table : — 



Queen of England (blush-white seedling, 1847) — Sp>orts, Alfred Salter 

 (lilac pink, 1856), Golden Queen of England (1859), Emily Wall (straw- 

 coloured), Bronze Queen, John Doughty (delicate fawn), and Empress of 

 India (white, 1861). 



Empress of India— Sp>orts, Lord Alcester (1882), Golden Empress (1887). 



Lord Alcester — Sport, John Lambert (straw, 1891). 



Golden Empress ,, Mrs. Bobinson King (deep yellow, 1891). 



Change of Form in Spoets. — Besides colour, the form of 

 the florets may be altered in the sport, though this appears to be 

 less common tban of colours. Thus in a sport of Source d'Or, 

 half the flower-head consisted of spreading, flat, canary-yellow 

 ray florets, while the other half of the flower -head was composed 

 of recurved dark golden bronze florets with re volute edges. Mr. 

 Molyneux says of incurved George Glenny that in the garden of 

 Mr. Horril at Havant it sported to a true reflexed type, which is 

 known as Mrs. Horril. Mr. Gallier, of Edgbaston, records how 



