Sweet Pea Notebooks : Sweet pea notebook '05 I' [1905 crosses]

Sweet Pea Notebooks

<p style='text-align: justify;'> Notebook recording Bateson and Punnett's experiments with sweet peas, labelled inside ‘Sw Peas, pot sowings 1905’. There is an index at the back pp <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(273);return false;'>236r-241</a>. The general format of the record is that the parents are recorded as numbers with a superscript or sometimes as a named variety. Since sweet peas can be selfed, some crosses have only a single parent. The date of sowing or planting out is often recorded, together with other observations on the plants such as colour. A note on page <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(95);return false;'>78v</a> states that Bateson bet Punnett five shillings 'that P.L.s come in next generation'; the bet is marked 'Taken' and initialled by Punnett. The plants on pp <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(156);return false;'>131v-132</a> and <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(188);return false;'>158v-159</a> are marked 'important' and 'v. important'. Those on page <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(197);return false;'>166v-167</a> are marked 'save all'. </p>