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" a completely tasselled Japanese variety with pale pink or flesh- 

 coloured florets, which were long, narrow, and very full, arose as 

 a sport from the fine incurved show pink variety, Miss Mary 

 Morgan."* Mr. E. Molyneux has observed only five instances, 

 to his knowledge, in which the form of the flower was altered in 

 sporting. He mentions the case of G. Glenny, and adds t : — 

 " Mr. Forsythe (white Christine) produced a partly incurved 

 variety — John Bradner — retaining the parent colour. Princess 

 Teck (incurved) has borne a flower of the reflexed type, quite 

 white, having lost the blush of its parent. King of Crimsons 

 has produced an Anemone-flowered sport, Mrs. R. A. Mudie ; 

 the Jap. Madame J. Laing produced a yellow sport, Mr. D. B. 

 Crane, in which the points have an elegant droop and a slight 

 twist, which I have not seen in any other variety." Haworth, in 

 his paper mentioned above, recalls the " Expanded Light Purple" 

 as sporting to the " Quilled Light Purple " t and that the 

 " Incurved Lilac " sported to the "Curled Blush." § Madame 

 Watther produced a curious sport in 1895 with Mr. Cannell. It is 

 an Anemone-flowered J apanese variety, and in the sport there were 

 at least five different forms of florets with numerous intermediate 

 ones. The ray florets were spreading, long-tubed, and ending 

 with spoon-like extremities : these were followed by a circle of 

 incurved narrow florets ; then came recurved florets with slender 

 tubes ; while the central part had minute recurved florets as well 

 as regular yellow tubular bisexual flowers. || 



Simultaneous Sporting. — That climatal conditions, over 

 which one has no control, may bring about sports has been 

 suspected from the well-known fact that sports often appear 

 simultaneously at various places and in the same season. Thus, 

 the lilac-purple Baronne de Prailley threw a fine brownish- 

 orange sport (Carew Underwood) at two or three places simul- 

 taneously, and in the same form.^[ Mr. Molyneux supplies 

 another illustration, in the case of Boule d'Or, which produced a 

 chestnut-coloured sport both in Hants and Lancashire. Madame 

 Carnot produced a canary-coloured sport, both with Mr. Lowe 



* Gardeners'' Chronicle, 1880, p. 819. 

 t Ibid. 



% " Hort. Trans." vol. v. pp. 145 and 421. 



§ Ibid. vol. vi. p. 326. 



|| Gardeners' Chronicle, 1875, p. 639. 



*[ E. J)., Gardeners' Chronicle, December 7, 1889, p. 656. 



