8 Experiments in Crossing a'Wild Pea from Palestine with Commercial Peas. 



Cross with pale bicolour-flowered (rose and white) type : grey- or mottled-seeded (Pisum 



arvense). 



1 cross made, the varieties \ 



used being : 



The Palestine Pea and L This failed to germinate. 



Dutch Capucin Pea with 



Lathyrus blossom. / 



Crosses with pale bicolour-flowered (rose and white) umbellate type : grey round-seeded 



(Pisum arvense). 



3 crosses made, the varieties \ 



used being : 



2 failed to germinate. 

 The Palestine Pea and L _. _*_._*: A . 



1 died off immediately after germination, 



the so-called Mummy 



Pea. 



Cross with dark bicolour-flowered, " sugar " type ( Pois Mangetout or Pois sans 

 parcherain) : constricted pods, grey round-seeded. 



1 cross made, the varieties \ 



used being : 



The Palestine Pea and L Flowered, but produced no seed. 



Pois sans parchemin b large 



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