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different kinds of plants for some time, he decided 

 that the garden pea was the best of this family for 

 his purpose. 



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FIG. 36. The crossing of different kinds of Wheat. 

 The middle figure represents a hybrid form produced 

 by crossing the kinds shown to right and left. 



But though these experiments were carried out 

 about fifty years ago, there were even then a great 

 many different kinds of garden peas. There are still 

 more now. Mendel got from a seedsman thirty-four 



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