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injury. 
as specimens Of 
addressed to t 
OF THE 
blue, like their female parent, were of a yel- 
low the 
male. 
e Pe e pod. 
m spring I separated а x the biu ue s Pens from 
the white, and sowe eparate 
TOWS; and I now find that ‘the cles ates only 
h 
blue, while the white yield some pods wit 
all white and some with both blue and white 
Feas intermixed”? (Trans. Hort. Soc., Lond., 
pp. 254- M 
ry adds a note that previous io 
ar iperial, 
e pollen of a white free-growing variety. One 
pats pro pod of four Peas, which di 
ils parent. The 
four Peas seemed to eene bf the na 
both pore cres Pepsi eit in stature, but 
ound that *almost 
laws, and e 
h 
ret confirm 
is 
princi here 
| to wit, үе the great Piin 
offered i> f -making гоч to an un- 
t realise that the 
explained as probably h is mistáke. 
ever, is a digression. ; 
Mendel was aware that a multitude of hybridi 
sation рыр ents a been made, | and was im- 
y applicable 
law governing the f formation of hybrids Ì had been 
formulated, _ he set out 
garden Peas suitable subjects for a series m 
experiments, and the results were ` 
1 a few other somewhat contradictory rs 
eing also included: 
ге ; b 
discovery m anticipated by near 
y three Englishmen escam so with the 
self-same aided, e Y» arden Pea 
On October 15, 1822, a paper by Mr. John 
before the у ссі 
was read 
of London, entitled, “ Vari in the Colour of 
Cross Impregnated Peas.’ E the s 
1820 Mr. deprived some blossoms of the 
rolific Blue Pea of their stamens, and the next 
day applied the pollen of a Dwarf Pea of the 
up. were obtained, 
ad ^ Mr. arks, “in order 
to sow ке found, to my great surprise, that 
the | of the Peas, instead of being a deep 
every о of the 
green с ib of arf Imperial, and others 
of the whitish colour of that ich it had 
een impregnated, indis у, and 
2 pod: 
in Plate 9, Fig. 1, conveys a very perfect’ idea 
of i rance.’ 
> 
fi earance.”” 
e third experim 
colou e ‘seeds, but this 
Mr. Knight was able to io fim, his earlier 
eriments. en the pollen of a grey Pea 
` was introduced into the MR. QUO fa 
variety, no chai in foi colou: 
ize of the seeds took place; all were йал 
like those of the whit parent. But when 
n, they uniformly gave plants w 
of these were again 
and white flowers, succeeded by ' white seed. 
The cotyledons of all the ve ae employed or 
produced were yellow, aoe uently Peas with 
` white seed coats retained colour, 
though they contained the elas umüles and co coty- 
The blue colour re- 
ents w i 
ond., 509). 
urious that these papers should eat 
been overlooked by quere nd his comm 
tors, for they are med in det ail т 
eae = 1898, together with a set of eight 
of his ing in 1829, and 
which 1 fan confirmed | the work of his рее. 
ај 
s experiments with e pa 
е made. ño. mention of those with Peas, 
pony е bs 
of his poi and бог т завео which w 
stated at the outset of his paper. 
of history. 
matter 
CHRONICLE. 
[DECEMBER 6, 1919. 
Mendel understood the origin of his pairs of 
alternating characters, and stated clearly that 
th m i 
d , and he 
remarked that it was only possible for th 
diverse escape from the enforced 
qui 
entir ently | 
setter, СЯ ‘i rids reprod 
ecies, an us жы 
ra fin ipi ies. 
return to this simplicity E ES 
Th 
scili, e essay was stu f the 
evolutionary standpoint, d dii this respect is - 
in need of revision, Pu this "preme be attempted 
at the end of an article. R. A. Rolfe. 
MR, REGINALD FARRER'S SECOND 
EXPLORATION IN ASIA." 
1.—H»raAwsur BUM 
pl 
the ibis idis of ao 
where never a flower to baan labour was en- _ 
untered. The inexperienced or pessimistic j 
in a coppice, and am golden 
Corydalis stand р! the ately stems of M 3 
not yet in flower by the © 
e it, though, to be of - 
n. 
top-buds as I might, I could nowher d one 
that promised to be of blue, but all were 
of that vinous purple (ugly even at that) ж h 
disappointment to lovers of 
Wallichii in its favo 
gone out of blossom. But i 
a very ape rua mee Potentilla, je Nomo- 1 
Mis rs, sheets and drifts, o emone | 
ant, b 
more heavily furnished, whil 
ae of pure jesi “paper white. And 
and do of the coppice, 
oran ntre of ea 
rider seeing this, or ‚ somethin: ng v 
exhibited in 1816 as ОР. ADR This, how 
ever, didaa be det 
bra therefore, ES 
suggested by sou s 
- Smithiana at ym d P. hel 
southerly marshes of Tengyue 
Shui Tans, 
notice a Primuloid Paced ant with leaves ME E 
like a large Viola a ‘stout, furry : 
carrying one MN pod with en thin style pro E 
The artic! Mr. 
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3 ber 1, and No vember m 
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