"Cucurbitaceous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... culture, never saw an instance of reversion; and he goes so far as to suspect that the careful Gaertner had not sufficiently protected his hybrids from the pollen of the parent-species: Naudin, on the other hand, who chiefly experimented on cucurbitaceous and other cultivated plants, insists more strenuously than any other author on the tendency to reversion in all hybrids. The conclusion that the condition of the parent-species, as affected by culture, is one of the proximate causes leading to reversion, agrees fairly well with the converse ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin |
