[27] ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1864, p. 1202.
[28] Verlot gives several other instances, ‘Des Variétés,’ 1865, p. 72.
[29] ‘Arbres Fruitiers,’ 1836, tom. ii. pp. 204, 226.
[30] ‘Annales du Muséum,’ tom. xx. p. 188.
[31] ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1843, p. 877.
[32] Ibid., 1845, p. 102.
[33] ‘Hist. des Anomalies,’ tom. iii. p. 402. See also M. Camille Dareste, ‘Recherches sur les Conditions,’ etc., 1863, pp. 16, 48.
[34] Rev. E. S. Dixon, ‘Ornamental Poultry,’ 1848, p. 111; Isidore Geoffroy, ‘Hist. Anomalies,’ tom. i. p. 211.
[35] ‘On the Breeding of Domestic Animals,’ 1829, p. 6.
[36] Youatt on Cattle, 1834, p. 283.