Plate 487 . 
ABUTILON MEGAPOTAMICUM 
MARMORATUM. 
Some remarkable experiments have been made lately as to 
the influence of the stock on the graft, and vice versa, by Mr. 
Laing, of the Stanstead Park Nurseries, Forest Hill, and the 
results are not only so curious, but beautiful, that we have 
determined to record them by selecting one of them for our 
present illustration. 
Mr. Laing grafted the green A. Megapotamicum on the varie- 
gated^/. Thompsonii, and the scion came quite variegated; he then 
reversed the process, and grafted the variegated form on the 
green one; the graft, iu order that it might receive the full 
influence of the stock, was allowed to make growth, and then 
kept pinched back. Yet withal, although this induced growth 
from the green stock, all the shoots came variegated. Budding 
was then tried : //. Due de Malakoff was budded on A. Thompsonii , 
as roses are budded. A green leaf was left on the bud, which 
grew and kept green ; but all the other growths came 
variegated. The character of the plant was no way changed, 
it appearing to be as robust as the type. In conversing with 
Mr. Laing on the subject, he stated that matured wood was 
preferable to young shoots, and budding to grafting ; for that 
although in all cases the growth became variegated, it was 
more rapid and certain in the case of the former. We learn 
also from an excellent contemporary, the Gardener, that in a 
lecture delivered by Dr. Masters, on the subject of Plant Life, 
