204: REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE ON GENETICS. 
The seedling potted erew moderately well. Four of its flowers 
received pollen of a plant naturalised on the cliffs at Crail, Fifeshire, and 
evidently a degenerate curled kale; six of Swedish turnip; fourteen of a 
garden yellow turnip; eight of black mustard; eleven of white mustard ; 
and three the pollen of its own flowers, such as it was. None of the 
flowers so pollinated produced a fruit with good seed. In one pollinated 
from the yellow turnip a fruit 3 inch long was produced, and contained 
a very poorly developed seed. 
Some of the inflorescences of the potted plant, somewhat “drawn,” 
were 18 inches long, and bore during the season from 80 to 100 flowers. 
Fic. 46.—Fiowers oF (a) Curtep Kaur, (b) Hyprip, (c) CHARLOcK. 
NATURAL SIZE. 
The early flowering of the hybrids was indicative of the annual 
duration of the pollen-parent. The plants remained in good health until 
the month of January, when a severe frost so crippled them that they 
never recovered. In all probability they would not have persisted, 
although they had escaped frost. 
Ribes Grossularia x R. sanguineum. 
A hybrid between the gooseberry and the flowering currant was 
secured in 1898, the seed-parent being a popular kind of garden yellow, 
name unknown. Six seedlings appeared above the soil. Two of these 
continued to live for a time, and ultimately only one, the stronger, was left. 
This was planted out and is now a bush 4 feet high, and 4 feet through. 
Rather scanty notes have been made of it. The habit is more that of the 
flowering currant than the gooseberry. 
