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

Sweet Pea Notebooks

<p style='text-align: justify;'> Notebook recording Bateson and Punnett's experiments with sweet peas, labelled inside 'Naturals sown 1905 in garden and on town land'. Records are paginated 250-343, followed by a set of notes paginated by the archivist, pp <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(129);return false;'>344r-359</a> and a run of blank pages. At the back of the notebook are maps of the plant plots pp <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(1);return false;'>vii-xi</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. Some plant records are marked 'important' e.g. those on pp <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(22);return false;'>261v-265</a> and <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(87);return false;'>311v-312</a>; some others are marked 'good' or 'good lot' e.g. pp <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(67);return false;'>296v-297</a> and <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(76);return false;'>304v-305</a>. The record on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(58);return false;'>290r</a> concludes with the note, 'W.B. [William Bateson] says "rubbish"'. That on page <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(65);return false;'>295</a> records that a sown meadow 'came badly: probably through moles'. There is also a detailed note on page <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(1);return false;'>355</a> and a schematic chart on page <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(152);return false;'>358v</a>. </p>