[68] Ibid., 1861, p. 963.
[69] Ibid., 1861, p. 433; ‘Cottage Gardener,’ 1860, p. 2.
[70] M. Lemoine (quoted in ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1867, p. 74) has lately observed that the Symphytum with variegated leaves cannot be propagated by division of the roots. He also found that out of 500 plants of a Phlox with striped flowers, which had been propagated by root-division, only seven or eight produced striped flowers. See also on striped Pelargoniums, ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1867, p. 1000.
[71] Anderson’s ‘Recreations in Agriculture,’ vol. v. p. 152.
[72] For wheat, see ‘Improvement of the Cereals,’ by P. Shirreff, 1873, p. 47. For maize and sugar-cane, Carrière, ibid., pp. 40, 42. With respect to the sugar-cane Mr. J. Caldwell of Mauritius, says (‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1874, p. 316) the Ribbon cane has here “sported into a perfectly green cane and a perfectly red cane from the same head. I verified this myself, and saw at least 200 instances in the same plantation, and the fact has completely upset all our preconceived ideas of the difference of colour being permanent. The conversion of a striped cane into a green cane was not uncommon, but the change into a red cane universally disbelieved, and that both events should occur in the same plant incredible. I find, however, in Fleischman’s ‘Report on Sugar Cultivation in Louisiana for 1848,’ by the American Patent Office, the circumstance is mentioned, but he says he never saw it himself.”
[73] ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1857, p. 662.
[74] ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1841, p. 814.
[75] Ibid., 1857, p. 613.
[76] Ibid., 1857, p. 679. See also Philips ‘Hist. of Vegetables,’ vol. ii. p. 91, for other and similar accounts.)
[77] ‘Journal of Proc. Linn. Soc.,’ vol. ii. Botany, p. 132.