Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
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page 284 of 636 (44%)
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The Westerham-crossed plants in weight to the self-fertilised as 100 to
53. The Westerham-crossed plants in height to the intercrossed as 100 to 104. The Westerham-crossed plants in weight to the intercrossed as 100 to 146. The intercrossed plants in height to the self-fertilised as 100 to 61. The intercrossed plants in weight to the self-fertilised as 100 to 36. Here the relative heights of the three lots are nearly the same (within three or four per cent) as with the plants in the pots. In weight there is a much greater difference: the Westerham-crossed exceed the self-fertilised by much less than they did before; but the self-fertilised plants in the pots had become slightly withered, as before stated, and were in consequence unfairly light. The Westerham-crossed plants are here inferior in weight to the intercrossed plants in a much higher degree than in the pots; and this appeared due to their being much less branched, owing to their having germinated in greater numbers and consequently being much crowded. Their leaves were of a brighter green than those of the intercrossed and self-fertilised plants. RELATIVE FERTILITY OF THE THREE LOTS OF PLANTS. None of the plants in pots in the greenhouse ever produced a capsule; and this may be attributed in chief part to the exclusion of moths. |
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