The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom

by Charles Darwin

THIRD GENERATION OF CROSSED AND SELF-FERTILISED PLANTS.

Crossed capsules compared with self-fertilised capsules contained seeds in the ratio of : 100 to 94.

An equal number of crossed and self-fertilised plants, both spontaneously self-fertilised, produced capsules in the ratio of : 100 to 38.

And these capsules contained seeds in the ratio of : 100 to 94.

Combining these data, the productiveness of the crossed to the self-fertilised plants, both spontaneously self-fertilised, was as : 100 to 35.