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TABLE II.- DOUBTFUL OR SHOWING PREPONDERANCE OF 

 FEMALE PARENT. 



Seed parent 



Germania . . . 



Hayes' Scarlet . 



Ruby .... 

 Lord Sefton 

 (crim. fl. maroon) 



Pollen parent 



King of Scarlets 

 Duke of Orleans 

 Germania . 



Governor 

 Madame 

 Houtte 



Van 



Ella Murray 

 (maroon fl. crim/ 

 Tournament . . 



Pink Malmaison 



Countess of Jersey Hayes' Scarlet 



Abigail . . 



Spy (white) 

 Warocque . 



Germania 



Mephisto 

 Germania 



Agnes Chambers Abigail (rose) 

 Ariadne (chaundy) Germania . 

 G. C. Murray 

 (scarlet) . . . 



Mrs. Muir . . . 

 Favourite (pic.) . 

 j> • 



Mephisto ". . . 



Favourite (pic.) . 

 Rose "Wynne, 

 crim. maroon . 



Corunna . . . 



Warocque . 

 Germania . 

 Hayes' Scarlet 



Germania . . 



King of Scarlets 



Germania . . 



Port Light (scarlet) 



Remarks on produce 



2 yellow ground picotees, 1 



yellow self. 

 2 white, 2 scarlet. No yellows 



or buffs. 

 2 rose. No trace of yellow. 



4 white, 1 maroon, 3 yellow or 

 buff. 



1 yellow, 1 buff, 2 rose, 1 crimson. 



All took clearly after the mother. 



8 all following mother. No trace 



of father. 

 4 yellow ground fancies, 1 rose self. 

 4 yellow ground fancies. 



2 white, 1 pink, 2 apricot, 1 

 yellow ground picotee. 



3 white, 2 rose. 



Every sort of colour, the nearest 

 approach to yellow being buffs, 

 self or flaked, and crimson. Al- 

 most all take after mother, and 

 all very vigorous except those 

 showing trace of father, such 

 as apricots, buffs, &c, which 

 are distinctly of weaker con- 

 stitution. 



2 yellow grd. picotees or fancies. 



3 scarlet, 3 rose. No trace of father. 



4 white, 9 all colours, but not 

 one with trace of father. 



3 white, one of them blush. 



6, not one with a trace of father. 



4 white ground picotees, and 1 

 white self. No trace of father. 



1 purple, 2 dark maroon, 2 buff, 

 1 blush white. 



2 picotees. 



4 maroon selfs. 



father. 

 3 yellow, 1 scarlet. 



No trace of 



worth having. I get plenty, but when I do I find them, as a rule, 

 pure reproductions on a most feeble scale of the mother, and I 

 always regard them as products of Germania self-fertilised, and 

 not a true cross." 



