"Podded" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... exact ratio, but it must have been at least as 100 to 75. A similar trial was subsequently made with two other peas from a different cross, and the result was nearly the same. For instance, a crossed seedling between the Maple and Purple-podded pea was planted in poor soil and grew to the extraordinary height of 116 inches; whereas the tallest plant of either parent variety, namely, a Purple-podded pea, was only 70 inches in height; ...
— The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom • Charles Darwin |
