HYBRIDISATION AND ITS FAILURES. 89 
DISCUSSION. 
Tue VEN. ARCHDEACON MEREDITH: You said, Professor Henslow, that 
the French Pelargonium would not hybridise with the English. Are 
there any special characteristics by which the French Pelargonium 
is known; or would any other Pelargonium hybridise with the 
English ? 
Proressor Henstow: The report was sent to me by one of the 
numerous friends I have to thank for a variety of information. There 
was no other remark on the subject, merely the statement of the fact. 
ARCHDEACON MerepitH: I have tried it myself, but have generally 
failed. 
Proressor Henstow: Then that corroborates my informant. 
ARCHDEACON MerrepitH: Are there any differences between Pelar- 
goniums grown in other countries, such as Germany or America ? 
Proressor Henstow: That I cannot tell you. I am passing on my 
information just as I received it. 
ARCHDEACON Merepitu: Is it possible for plants to get naturalised 
to the particular country where they are reared? After a time do they 
lose their foreign characteristics ? 
Proressor Henstow: I think that is so. AsI have said the Primula, 
according to Mr. Sutton, will not now cross with the original form from 
which it is derived—the Chinese form. I do not know of any other 
instance ; perhaps other cultivators may know. 
Mr. Georce Bunyarp, V.M.H.: I would like to say that a gentleman 
in our neighbourhood has made many curious crosses, among which is 
one of the Gooseberry and the Blackcurrant. He succeeded in producing 
fruit on it, and I tasted it; but it was of no use whatever from a com- 
mercial point of view, and I did not entertain his offer to sell the plant 
tome. He also had a cross between the Blackcurrant and Ribes san- 
guinea, and between the Ribes sanguinea and the Gooseberry (p. 168). 
Prorressor Henstow: Do you know whether the seed was retained ? 
Mr. Bunyarp: Yes. 
ProFressor Henstow: That is an advance on the information that 
I possessed. 
