(21.C.

Cabbages Lacinated

White & Green lacinated Cabbage we had 7 flowers castrated & crossed with own Magenta & green lac. cabbage & produced only 3 pods, with 3.66 seed on average, with max. 6 & min. 2

12 pods spont. self-fert contained on average 3.58 seed with max. 7 & min. 1. We shall see that this var. White & green? is very sterile; its pollen acting poorly on the magenta & green vars. It is not that the 2 vars, are mutually sterile, but that this var. which produced few pods is altogether very infertile.

(May 10 1868 Plants of Both flower → (see p. 21 D.) 6-7 inches high to tips of leaf, & no difference in crossed & self— Same remark applies to 21.D)

(Aug 24 1868 still no difference & now placed out of doors)

Oct 19. 1868.— (measured to tops of leaves.) in pots

Pot. I.	Crossed. Plants—9 4/8 7	self- Plants 8 1/8 8 1/8	May 1. 1869. The One self- plant flowered first, but this was a precocious plant, sickly, with not one leaf— & flower stem soon dies.
Pot II	9 4/8 9	7 6 7/8	May 1. 1869. the crossed flowered first.

                              

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Aug. 28 /68/ The seedlings from the various crosses have now grown to good size & their character can be well seen.

From the purple & green var. art. castrated & art.

(1) fertilised, & the white & green 17 plants consist of 10 green & 7 Purple var,

From the white & green, castrated & fert. by purple

(2) & green there are 20 plants & these are all green! with no trace of the purple var.—!! Spontaneous crosses

Seed was saved from the purple & Green. var. growing close to the White & Green var. & left to Bees & these

(3) seedlings consist of 165 green & 160 purple.—

Seed was saved from White & Green var. growing closer to Purple & Green var. & less

(4) to bees & these consist of 246 green & 220 purple — so white & green seems rather prepotent, & wonderfully so in no. 3. — Even if the parent-plants were crossed by minute Beetles, wh cd not be excluded