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HISTORICAL: 
Gregor Johann Mendel, known as the Father of Heredity, was born 
July 22, 1822 in the little Austrian City of Brunn. He became a monk, 
later Abbot of the Augustinian Friar’s Church of St. Thomas. He became 
interested in experimenting with plant breeding, especially common 
garden peas, using a garden plot 20’ x 120’. 
He produced by inbreeding or self-pollination. 
He made copious records of his experiments, prepared a short paper out- 
lining the results of his work which the scientific society of whicn he was 
a member printed and filed in its archives. 
He died January 6, 1884 and it was not until 1900 that tnree scientists 
located his pamphlet. Three years later, after research Mendel’s ideas 
were given to the world as the Mendelian Law. He probably knew nothing 
about chromosomes and hormones which were discovered later. Under 
the Mendelian Law of Segregation and Reassortment, 25% of the seed- 
lings will be outsanding, 25% recessive and 50% normal. 
In 1947 after trying for years to produce dahlia seed by inbreeding or 
self-pollination, | discovered | could achieve this by using my thumb to 
massage the pollen in a circular motion which engaged the very small 
sticky pistil which is part of every dahlia petal. In a few days seed pods 
began to develop. This is true with gladiolus, iris and other flowers. 
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Mendelian Seedlings 
