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There was, in this instance, no trace of fungus or insect to account for the swelling of a single branch, which might, therefore, be due to bud-variation, perhaps to reversion to some ancestral form.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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For the roses, the hyacinths, the tulips, the chrysanthemums always have furnished the largest contributions to the demonstrations of bud-variation.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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It often means bud-variation, while in other cases it conveys the same idea as the old botanical term of mutation.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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But they have been crossed so often, that doubt as to the purity of the descent of any single form may recur, and may destroy the usefulness of their many recorded cases of bud-variation for the demonstration of real atavism.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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In other words by bud-variations or sports, analogous to the splitting of Adam's laburnum into its parents, by means of bud-variation already described.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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It is not a bud-variation at all, and it is to be met with quite commonly while the true reversions by buds are very rare and are of the nature of sports appearing suddenly and remaining constant on the same twig.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Sectional variation may be looked at as a [318] special type of bud-variation, and from this point of view we may simplify our inquiry and limit ourselves to the inheritance of three types, the striped plants, the red plants and the red asexual variants of the striped individuals.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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I have cases of seven or eight varieties of the peach which have produced by "bud-variation" nectarines, and yet only one single case (in France) of a peach producing another closely similar peach (but later in ripening).
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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The case of vine in "Gardeners 'Chronicle," which I sent you, I think may only be a bud-variation not due to grafting.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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How strange that no case seems recorded of new apples or pears or apricots by "bud-variation"!
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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