Note 98 — A DEFENCE OF MENDEL’S PRINCIPLES OF HEREDITY.

It is certainly subject to considerable changes according to conditions. Those ripened in my garden are without exception much larger and flatter than Vilmorin’s seeds (now two years old) from which they grew. The colour of the coats is also much duller. These changes are just what is to be expected from the English climate—taken with the fact that my sample of this variety was late sown.