es, namely, hairy and red,--smooth, small
and red,--green,--and yellow tinged with buff; the two latter kinds had
a different flavour from the red berries, and their seeds were coloured
red. Three twigs on this bush grew close together; the first bore three
yellow berries and one red; the second twig bore four yellow and one
red; and the third four red and one yellow. Mr. Laxton also informs me
that he has seen a Red Warrington gooseberry bearing both red and
yellow fruit on the same branch.

_Currant_ (_Ribes rubrum_).--A bush purchased as the Champagne, which
is a variety that bears blush-coloured fruit intermediate between red
and white, produced during fourteen years, on separate branches and
mingled on the same branch, berries of the red, white, and champagne
kinds.[822] The suspicion naturally arises that this variety may have
originated from a cross between a red and white variety, and that the
above transformation may be accounted for by reversion to both
parent-forms; but from the foregoing complex case of the gooseberry
this view is doubtful. In France, a branch of a red-currant bush, about
ten years old, produced near the summit five white berries, and lower
down, amongst the red berries, one berry half red and half white.[823]
Alexander Braun[824] also has often seen branches bearing red berries
on white currants.

_Pear_ (_Pyrus communis_).--Dureau de la Malle states that the flowers
on some trees of an ancient variety, the _doyenne galeux_, were
destroyed by frost: other flowers appeared in July, which produced six
pears; these exactly resembled in their skin and taste the fruit of a
distinct variety, the _gros doyenne blanc_, but in shape were like the
_bon-chretien_: it was not ascertained whether this new variety could
be propagated by budding or grafting. The same author grafted a
_bon-chretien_ on a quince, and it produced, besides its proper fruit,
an apparently new variety, of a peculiar form, with thick and rough
skin.[825]

_Apple_ (_Pyrus malus_).--In Canada, a tree of the variety called Pound
Sweet, produced,[826] between two of its proper fruit, an apple which
was well russetted, small in size, different in shape, and with a short
peduncle. As no russet apple grew anywhere near, this case apparently
cannot be accounted for by the direct action of foreign p