[6a]

p. 10 18 24 sometimes first generation not come to greatest vigour

76

81. Thinks [illeg] seed-plant [illeg] dies soonest hence fruit soonest

86

108 123 126 (East Indian plants injured & cut) paler even originally &c

128, 130, 2 It may be that from old X fruit you get only by chance X incipient sterility & good fruit; whereas by V. m. process you get it surely.—

144

149

158

161 — gives most absurd explanation

170

178

181, 4

197

202, 4

209

225, 6

241

249

250; 3, 4, 6, 8

By the way he somewhere says that seeds from a new kind, even if it has borne some years will produce good.

All old good kinds are very rare sports & one cannot expect that goodness wd be hereditary —

[6av]

Without knowing character crossing all uncertain

263, 4

271

286

291, 3

298

308

313, 4

385, 6, 8

403 — sow cabbages & cauliflower all together & peas & beans.}

406.— 413 {He can hardly describe the characters which foretell good fruit—

414., 6., 8

421, 22, 24 ,28

484

[6b]

76. ✓ When procreative power began to bridle itself, then fruit most delicate

The want of trueness in fruit-trees I think from want of selection: they are polymorphous.

205 Some relation between fruit & tree

226 Any change in leaves will be followed by change in flowers

[Darwin cited this in Variation vol. 2, p. 330: "Pomologists can predict to a certain extent, from the size and appearance of the leaves of their seedlings, the probable nature of the fruit; for, as Van Mons remarks,25 variations in the leaves are generally accompanied by some modification in the flower, and consequently in the fruit. In the Serpent melon, which has a narrow tortuous fruit above a yard in length, the stem of the plant, the peduncle of the female flower, and the middle lobe of the leaf, are all elongated in a remarkable manner. On the other hand, several varieties of Cucurbita, which have dwarfed stems, all produce, as Naudin remarks with surprise, leaves of the same peculiar shape.
25 'Arbres Fruitiers,' 1836, tom. ii. pp. 204, 226."]

255 Wild apples & Pears very constant: (can they reject pollen of cultivated vars.)

263 on rigid selection of fruit-trees in his renouvellements

291 on vast variation from seed of isolated Vine  ✓ Q

404 Not until 4th year seedling trees take their distinctive characters

414 The most early pears do not flower first, or reverse  ✓Q

418 Apple less variable than pear