Column 1: Number (Name) of Pot.
Column 2: Tallest Crossed Plant in each Pot.
Column 3: Tallest Self-fertilised Plant in each Pot.
Pot 1 : 18 : 15 6/8.
Pot 2 : 17 : 19.
Pot 3 : 22 1/8 : 18.
Pot 4 : 20 : 23.
Total : 77.13 : 75.75.
The four tallest crossed plants averaged 19.28, and the four tallest self-fertilised 18.93 inches in height; or as 100 to 98. So that there was no difference worth speaking of between the two lots in height; though other great advantages are derived, as we have seen, from cross-fertilisation. From being grown in pots and kept in the greenhouse, none of the plants produced any capsules.
Lobelia ramosa. (5/22. I have adopted the name given to this plant in the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle’ 1866. Professor T. Dyer, however, informs me that it probably is a white variety of L. tenuior of R. Brown, from W. Australia.)