Note 69 — A DEFENCE OF MENDEL’S PRINCIPLES OF HEREDITY.

It is interesting to see that in at least one case the same—or practically the same—variety has been independently produced by different raisers, as we now perceive, by the fortuitous combination of similar allelomorphs. Sutton’s Ringleader and Carter’s First Crop (and two others) are cases in point, and it is peculiarly instructive to see that in the discussion of these varieties when they were new, one of the points indicating their identity was taken to be the fact that they produced the same “rogues.” See Gard. Chron. 1865, pp. 482 and 603; 1866, p. 221; 1867, pp. 546 and 712.

Rimpau quotes Blomeyer (Kultur der Landw. Nutzpflanzen, Leipzig, 1889, pp. 357 and 380) to the effect that purple-flowered plants with wrinkled seeds may spring as direct sports from peas with white flowers and round seeds. I have not seen a copy of Blomeyer’s work. Probably this “wrinkling” was “indentation.”