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The gardener who in 1644 in Florence raised this tree, declared that it was a seedling which had been grafted; and after the graft had perished, the stock sprouted and produced the bizzarria.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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In regard to the bizzarria, many authors believe that it is a graft-hybrid; Gallesio on the other hand thinks that it is an ordinary hybrid, with the habit of partially reverting {392} by buds to the two parent-forms; and we have seen in the last chapter that the species in this genus often cross spontaneously.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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The famous _bizzarria Orange_ offers a strictly parallel case to that of _Cytisus adami_.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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Smyrna [911] resembles in its general nature the bizzarria, but differs from it in the _sweet_ orange and citron being blended together in the same fruit, and separately produced on the same tree: nothing is known of its origin.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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