igS BREEDING 



*' living retired " in the country. It seems that his 

 horticultural work was successful, for he received 

 a prize (purse with gold) for his work from a hor- 

 ticultural society. His wife died, aged 65, on 

 January 19th, 1823, and he went to live at Oke- 

 hampton, where he died on May 31, 1833, at the 

 age of 46, leaving his money to establish libraries in 

 Hatherleigh and Okehampton. 



There is a sentence,* part of which has already 

 been quoted, in Goss's letter to the Horticultural 

 Society which possesses a curiously prophetic sig- 

 nificance : " Should this new variety of pea neither 

 possess superior merit nor be deemed singular in 

 its bicoloured produce, yet there is, I conceive, some- 

 thing in its history that will emit a ray of physio- 

 logical light . . ." Little can he have guessed how 

 bright a ray was destined to be emitted by this 

 singular pea with its bicoloured produce. 



• Last paragraph of p. 200. 



The exception to the dominance of yellow over green related 

 in the "Note by the Secretary" on p. 201 is apparent only. 

 Mr. Bates on has discovered that the Imperials have a thick 

 green seed-coatj which prevents the cotyledons of the first hybrid 

 generation being seen. Messrs. Sutton's King Edivard has a 

 similar opaque green seed-coat, which prevents the colour of the 

 enclosed cotyledons from being seen. 



