RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1862.07.11-11.05. Single carnation castrated flowers. CUL-DAR79.12. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR 76-79 contain material for Darwin's book Cross and self fertilisation (1876).

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July 11 62— Single carnation

Castrated flowers

white thread (1) pollen of longest anthers

Black thread (1) ― of shortest anthers

Nov. 5. 1862

Black-thread — — 83 seeds

white thread — pod with 0 seed perhaps accident—

Plant under net produced 18 pods which I thought would be good, yet of 18 only 2 contained any good seed, these 2 pods having 10 & 15 seeds — so almost sterile without insects. —

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Carnation

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