Identifier: gardenerschronic333lond (find matches)
Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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omplications caused by the influence ofthe immediate ancestors at any rate, thoughhow far it affects the possible reversion tomore remote ancestors is difficult to say. The writer, in his experiments withOrchids, has chosen distinct species asparents, and in this way perhaps reduces thepossibilities of reversion still more. DeVries, Correns, Tschermak, and Bateson,have all for the most part followed Mendelsmethod by crossing constant races; and i 34 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (Jasuaby 17, 1903. is quite possible that some of their apparentexceptions to Mendels results may be dueto their crossing, unwittingly, more or lessinconstant races. As we have seen, Mendelcarefully avoided this by selecting parentsof pure descent, and side by side with his CHINESE CONIFERS. (Messes. Jas. Veitch & Sons, having kindlyconfided to me for examination the collection ofConiferous plants obtained in Central China bytheir collector, Mr. E. H. Wilson, I proposefrom time to time to call attention to some
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Fig. 18.—pikvs koeaiensis. Showing shoot, foliage, male flowers, tip of leaf magnified, anther, pollen grain x 300, and wingless seed. crossing experiments, he was careful tocarry out control experiments, with Un-original parents by further testing theirconstancy and fixity through all the genera-tions. Consequently, all his results withPisum were uniform and without exceptions.Charles C. Hurst. I (To be continued.) of the more interesting of these plants. Mr.Wilsons specimens are mostly excellent; somerepresent new or undescribed species, others areof special interest from some cause or another—indeed, all are more or less noteworthy. Thesenotes will therefore be complementary to thosepublished in these pages by Lindley and AndrewMurray on the Japanese species, collected by the late J. G. Yeitch, and to those published by myselfin these columns, on the plants sent home by thelate C. Maries from Japan. The latter also formedthe subject of a communication to the Journal ofthe Linne

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