1876 PANGENESIS 37 



Some of the produce looked suspicious, but more than 

 this I should not dare to say. By this post I send 

 you a box containing some of the best specimens, 

 thinking you may like to see them. The lots marked 

 A and B are sent for comparison with the others, 

 being the kinds I grafted together. If you think it 

 worth while to have the eyes of any of the other lots 

 planted, you might either do so yourself or send them 

 back to me. Lot C is the queerest, and to my perhaps 

 too partial eye looks very like a mixture. In the case 

 of this graft the seed potato was rotten when dug up 

 yesterday, and this may account for the small size of 

 the tubers sent. 



I did try dahlias and peonies, but in the former the 

 • finger and toe ' shape of the tubers, with the eyes 

 situated in the worst parts for cutting out clearly, 

 prevented me from getting adhesion in any one case. 

 With the peonies I was too late in beginning. It was 

 also too late in the year when I began Pangenesis to 

 try the spring flowers, but I hope to do so extensively 

 this winter. Next year I shall try grafting beets and 

 mangolds by cutting the young white root into a 

 square shape and placing four red roots all round. In 

 this way the white one will have a maximum surface 

 exposed to the influence of the red ones. I shall also 

 try grafting the crown of the red in the root of the 

 white variety, and vice versa. I have already done 

 this very successfully with carrots — making a little 



has caused their offspring in part to resemble it. Such facts Romanes 

 considered to be fully in harmony with the theory of Pangenesis, and 

 inconsistent with any theory which supposes that no part of the parent 

 organism generates any of the formative material. 



