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April. 13 1860 to Mr Masters

The I know the 6 kinds of Sweet Peas named by Mr Masters. I castrated 2 flowers of the Purple & fertilised with pollen of Painted Lady: one pod produced seedlings all closely like the Painted Lady; the other had produced one some plants not distinguishable from the mother or Purple, all & the other peas in the same pod produced plants like Painted Lady. The early flowers were indistinguishable from those of the Painted Lady; but later in season the wing-petals became slightly streaked & blotched with pale purplish dark or pale Pink.—

I raised many grandchild children from these latter mongrels (ie grandchildren of the Purple ♀ Painted Lady ♂) & one single plant most closely resembled the Purple with a mere trace of paler streaks on the petals.

All the other many plants were more or less intermediate between the like Painted Lady, & Scarlets in tint, but were all more or less but varying in intensity of colour & more or less blotched blotched & streaked, but none were had any purple on them—

with darker or lighter pink, but not with true purple. — see p. 69 for gr. grandchildren