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Broom 8 Plants on one side.

(April 3. 68/ Pot I. The three crossed plants very much healthiest & finest; tallest 3 1/4 high— tallest self- 3 inches. — in Pot II — The one crossed finer than the one self.— Four more young plants placed on each side of the same pot. ) so 5 on each side

(June 14 68. the Pots were bedded out, unbroken, for plants began to look unhealthy in greenhouse; but thy, especially the self, suffered painfully from change. & the younger seedlings all died.

No June 14th— 1868

Pot. I

3 Crossed Plants — 4 1/2inches — 6 — 2 — Healthy

3 self Plants 2 1/2 — 1 1/2 — 1 almost all dead

Pot. 2.

3 Crossed Plants — 2 — 2 1/2 — 0 1/2

3 self- 1 1/2 — 1 — almost dead.

May 9th 1869 Still in Pots & plan planted out

Pot I

3 crossed plant growing well 11 1/2 high

of 3 self one alone alive & almost dead being only 1 1/2 inch high

Pot. II

4 Crossed plant alive, one 8 inch high one very poor

of the selfs & 3 alive, but 2 almost dead, one 9 1/4 high, so higher than the tallest crossed, which however has had to grow by close to 2 other crossed Plants

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Broom Aug 5. 1869

In Pot II

only one alive on each side.

Crossed	Self
13 1/8 9 2/8 8 3/8	12 4/8 2 6/8 2

In Pot I all the selfs dead & crossed thrown away.—

Oct. 17 1869. Pot II. same as above growth completed for the year

3 Plants

Crossed	Self
15. 6/8 9.6 8.2	13.1 3.0 2.4

 

Oct. 21. 1870 same plant in Pot.—

Crossed	Self
16 4/8 26 2/ 14	4 2/ 9 6/ 11 4/

 

26. 2/8 16 4/8 14	14.2/8 11 4/ 9 6/
56 6/8	35 4/8

(over)

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March 26— 1871.— Last winter 1870-1871 severe; the crossed plants not in the least injured, not even tips of the last long shoots; but all the self plants killed half way down. i.e. all upper halfs— so now no comparison in size between the self & crossed plants.—

(May 22d Three of the crossed plants have flowered freely, but not one of the selfs.─)