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LOCK Î STUDIES IN PLANT BREEDING 
The result may be thus briefly summarized :— 
5.—Native Pea No. 1 crossed with French Sugar Pea. 
A. —Description of Parents. 
Sutton’s 44 French Sugar Pea ” is described on the package as 
being on the average 5 feet high. The sample consisted of very 
large seeds, irregular in outline and slightly wrinkled (dimpled) ; 
they were slightly elongated and distinctly flattened from side 
to side. The starch grains were of the 4 4 round ’ ’ type and the 
cotyledons were bright yellow in colour. The testa was quite 
opaque and of a colour varying from gray to orange-brown, and was 
sprinkled with purple or blackish-violet dots. On keeping, the gray 
testa showed a gradual change through orange to dark brown ; 
so that in two years all the seeds preserved were of this colour and 
were then no longer capable of germination. 
As grown at Peradeniya, the plants, under favourable conditions, 
reached a height of quite 7 feet ; the usual number of internodes was 
30, and the average length of an internode nearly three inches. 
The stems were stout and branches were usually absent. The 
stems of young seedlings showed a red pigmentation at an early age, 
and a reddish purple patch appeared in the axil of each leaf. The 
flowers exhibited a red standard and purple wings. 
The seeds resembled those of the original sample in size and form. 
The colour of the testa when the seeds were freshly gathered was 
nearly always greenish-gray ; but some of the seeds in the lower pods 
usually showed signs of turning orange. Dark purple dots appeared 
