millardet

Updated: June 27, 2025

Constant hybrids have been raised by Millardet between several species of strawberries. He combined the old cultivated forms with newly discovered types from American localities. They ordinarily showed only the characteristics of one of their parents and did not exhibit any new combination of qualities, but they came true to this type in the second and later generations.

Hugo de Vries - Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation