XXvi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



(e) Parent, seeds reddish-salmon with streaks of burnt umber : 

 Plant 1 produced 173 seeds yellowish-salmon with many streaks of 

 fawn (like parent) ; 18 seeds fawn, except for few small spots of pale 

 yellowish-salmon. Plant 2 produced 156 seeds like striped ones of 

 Plant 1. Plant 3 produced 170 seeds pale yellowish-salmon with faint 

 grey mottling, striped with burnt umber; 6 wholly burnt umber, except 

 for few small spots of pale yellowish-salmon. 



(/) Parent seed pale flesh with streaks of dark neutral tint : Plant 1 

 produced 85 seeds pale putty to cinnamon. Plant 2 produced 23U 

 seeds pale flesh, mottled and more or less streaked with neutral tint 

 (like parent). 



(g) Parent seed chocolate : Plant 1 produced 55 seeds Naples yellow 

 more or less mottled with neutral tint. Plant 2 produced 22 milk- 

 white seeds. 



(li) Parent seed violet black with streaks and spots of rosy-white: 

 Plant 1 produced 100 seeds milk-white to creamy-white. Plant 2 pro- 

 duced 9 seeds milk-white ; 81 greenish- white. Plant 3 produced 128 

 seeds with rosy-white ground mottled and streaked with violet-black so 

 that seed appeared purple. Plant 4 produced 195 seeds similar to Plant 

 3, but less mottled. 



(i) Parent seed rosy-white with more or less ivory-black ; Plant 1 

 produced 45 seeds of rosy-white faintly mottled with dilute black and 

 blotched and streaked with violet-black. Plant 2 produced 11 seeds 

 fleshy-white. Plant 3 produced 175 seeds with rosy-white ground, 

 some half, some almost entirely, covered with greenish-black. Plant 4 

 produced seeds similar to those from Plant 2, but faintly mottled 

 with grey. Plant 5 produced 90 seeds with very pale rosy-white 

 ground mottled with much diluted violet-black and with streaks of 

 violet-black. Plant 6 produced 41 seeds violet-black speckled with : 

 rosy-white; 48 violet-black more spotted with rosy-white; 20 seeds 

 neutral tint with small spots of rosy-white; 52 neutral tint with large i 

 spots of rosy- white ; these differences were not clearly marked, however. 



(y) Parent seed burnt umber : Plant 1 produced 370 seeds maroon. 

 Plant 2 produced 90 seeds milk-white faintly mottled. Plant 3 pro- 

 duced 290 seeds fawn. Plant 4 produced 398 seeds maroon. 



(/c) Parent seed pale flesh with large spots, streaks, and specks of 

 burnt umber : Plant 1 produced 42 seeds pale flesh with streaks of lilac- i 

 rose. Plant 2 produced 98 seeds pale flesh, some almost wholly others j 

 half covered with tan. Plant 3 produced 48 seeds milk-white; 90 | 

 sulphur-white. Plant 4 produced 225 seeds pale flesh spotted with 1 

 diluted umber and more or less covered with burnt umber, as in Plant 2. 



(Z) Parent seed chamois faintly mottled : Plant 1 produced 93 seeds 

 cream-yellow to chamois, more or less mottled with olive-brown, ji 

 Plant 2 produced 74 similarly coloured seeds. ' 



(m) Parent seed pale blush with parts reddish-black : Plant 1 pro- i 

 duced 195 seeds purplish-tinted white, much or only half covered with 

 darker spots and blotches. Plant 2 produced 200 seeds milk-white to 

 yellowish- white. 



