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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST 
[ January, 
The finest and most brilliantly coloured of M. Lemoine’s singles is Orijiamme, 
which produces large and perfectly formed flowers, of a fine deep carmine-colour 
and great substance; it is of an upright habit of growth, with dark green hairy 
foliage, and is very free-flowering, but it is not easy to get cuttings from it. Diaiaant 
has fine large blooms of a deep rose-colour outside and rosy-blush inside, very 
freely produced; its habit of growth is low and tufty, with large, bold, deep 
green foliage, slightly veined with white. It is altogether a most distinct and 
beautiful variety, of quite a new shade of colour in these plants. Madame Oscar 
Lamarche^ one of M. Van Houtte’s, is an exceedingly fine large-flowered variety, 
of perfect form and deep glowing carmine-colour, one of the very best and most 
free-blooming of all. Charles Raes^ also sent out by M. Van Houtte,is of upright 
habit of growth, producing large blooms of a fine deep rose-colour, very free- 
blooming, and a lovely variety. These have all been grown in the open air at 
Queenstown. 
As summer-flowering greenhouse plants, and also as summer flower-garden 
plants, these new forms of Begonia promise to become real acquisitions.— 
T. Moore. 
ON CHANGES EFFECTED BY GKAFTING. 
N a late issue of the Florist (1876, 255), Mr. Wighton made some remarks 
respecting grafting, which the light of modern experiences seems destined 
to modify, even if the statements of Bradley, who wrote long ago, and the 
late Thomas Andrew Knight’s remarks on the variations of grafted Apples, in 
the second volume of the Horticultural IVansactions^weie not sufiSciently conclusive 
as to the operation of grafting being nearly as likely to change a variety, as to insure 
its permanence in the form of a young tree on another stock. Mr. Meehan has just 
published the results of some experiments undertaken by him in which the grafts 
of Ehode Island Greening Apple and those of a Bed Astrachan were split down 
the middle and joined together tally-fashion, these being then grafted on stocks 
in the ordinary way. Twelve of these tally-scions, each formed of the tw^o halves 
of wood of the before-mentioned varieties, were so worked, and three (25 per 
cent.) grew. One of the survivors has already fruited, and differs from either of 
the parent trees which supplied the scions, both in flower and fruit. 
Many ancient writers have asserted that such a practice had been successful 
in producing new sorts of fruit, but we had all got into a sceptical state respect¬ 
ing the truth of their remarks, this being in a measure owdng to our not knowing 
rightly the plants to which their names refer, and partly because their statements 
were unproved by experiment. We now know that variation can be infused into 
green-leaved stocks of many plants by grafting them with variegated scions, such 
having been the case with the Laburnum, Spanish Ohesnut, Mountain Ash, 
Pelargonium, Holly, Passion-flower, Jasmine, Abutilon, and many other plants. 
This ought to be amply sufficient to prove that the returning leaf-elaborated sap 
is not confined to the wood of the scion the leaves of which have purified it. I 
