selection-experiments

Updated: June 7, 2025

In scientific selection-experiments such crosses are of course avoided, and the process of purification is unnecessary, even as in the Chrysanthemum culture. The first generation succeeding the original plant with disk-rays was in this respect wholly uniform and true to the new type.

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

By this means we come to true selection-experiments, and these result in a notable and rapid change of the whole strain.

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