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In 1909, the seed from each of these capsules was sown, on 

 the 9th July, in pots in the pot-culture house at Pusa and 15 

 plants in all were raised to maturity, viz. : — 



3 from No. 102 



4 „ No. 103 

 6 ,, No. 120 

 2 „ No. 125 



Ail these plants had red colour in their stems ; thus suggest- 

 ing that red behaves as a dominant characteristic in jute as 

 apparently it has done in most species of plants where red- 

 stemmed and green-stemmed races have been crossed. It 

 was noticed, however, that the red colour in the hybrid 

 progeny was always less intense than in the parent plant, 

 an observation which has been confirmed by more recent 

 experiments. 



The plants were numbered as follows : — 



Dbscrndahts of 

 102 103 120 125 



I I I I I I i I I I I I I II 



210 211a 2116 119 261 262 263 199 201 203 204 206 209 213 214 



Several flowers on each of these plants were carefully self- 

 pollinated and good seed was obtained from all plants, excepting 

 Nos. 199 and 204. 



This seed was sown, in lines, on the Dacca Farm on May 

 18th, 1910. At the same time seed, from the same plants 

 respectively, but produced from flowers left to be fertilized 

 naturally,*^ was sown in adjacent lines. On germination it 

 was seen that the plants, from both selfed and from ordinarily 

 fertilized flowers, varied in colour from red to pure green. When 



* Side by side with the pots in which the hybrids were growing were several pots contain, 

 ing pure green jute plants. 



