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assurance that a bee might not have done the work five minutes 

 before we fertilised the bloom. Taking, however, the general 

 average I am certain that the great preponderance of flowers 

 crossed and marked as 1 sure ' are really so, the evidence being 

 often given by the habit and foliage when not apparent in the 

 flowers of the produce. One very strong bit of evidence in favour 

 of your theory is given by the crosses on 1 Germania.' Now 

 Germania is a flower of tremendous individuality, and if any 

 flower in existence could transmit its peculiarities to its descend- 

 ants it would be Germania ; and yet you will find that Germania 

 is swamped by the individuality of the pollen parent in the great 

 majority of cases. I hardly ever get a yellow from Germania 



TABLE I.— SHOWING PREPONDERANCE OF MALE PARENT. 



Seed paren 



Germania 



Pollen parent 



Remarks on produce 



Sigurd (buff) . . 

 Remembrance . 



Audrey Campbell 

 The Beau (buff) . 

 Alice Ay res . . 

 Winifred (buff) . 



Almira . . . . 

 Warocque . . . 



Scarlet seedling . 

 Corunna (yellow) 



Sir B. Seymour . . 



A maroon .... 

 Marnie Murray 



(scarlet) .... 

 Golden Rain (yellow 



ground fancy) . . 

 Mrs. Vernon Har- 

 court .... 

 Abigail (rose) . . . 



Ariadne . . . . 

 Madame A. Waroc- 

 que (Malmaison) . 

 Pink Malmaison . . 



Several purples . 

 Germania . . . 



Lady Gwendoline 

 Germania . . . 



Rose Wynne (crim 



son maroon) . 

 Pink Malmaison . 

 Almira .... 



Duke of Orleans 

 Hayes' Scarlet 



All the produce took after male 

 parent. 



Nearly all the produce maroon. 



4 out of 5 were white. 

 Produce took after the male. 



5 scarlets, 1 maroon. 



Rose, apricot, or buff barred 



with rose. 

 Produce scarlet, crimson ,and rose. 



Produce buffs and some rose. 



Yellow not represented exc. by 

 buffs and buff ground fancies, 

 produce giving every variety of 

 scarlet, crimson, and rose. 



Produce mainly maroon, and 

 white. 



4 yellow, 2 buff, and 1 white. 

 All yellow ground picotees and 



fancies. 

 1 white, 1 rose, 1 scarlet. 

 4 yellow, 2 buff. 



1 yellow buff. 



Produce mainly maroon. 

 4 pink, 1 yellow ground picotee. 

 Nearly all buff, flaked and barred 

 with crimson. 



2 yellow, 1 buff, 1 crimson, 

 2 white, 1 scarlet. 



