From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[after 28 Feb 1857]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 7 March 1857, p. 155
Summary:
Reports that he fertilised a single pale red carnation with the pollen of a crimson Spanish pink, and a Spanish pink with the pollen of the same carnation. He got seed from both crosses and raised many seedlings. There was no difference between the seedlings from reciprocal crosses, not one plant set a single seed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project