saleves

Updated: August 20, 2026

The Swiss wheat-breeder Risler made an experiment which goes to prove the certainty of the explanation given by Rimpau. He observed on his farm at Saleves near the lake of Geneva that after a lapse of time the "Galland wheat" deteriorated and assumed, as was generally believed, the characters of the local sorts.

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