Tomato Kotes for 1892. 



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these cuttingis of cuttings is tihe fact that tiiey did not reproduce tlie 

 pajpent type^ A, but of this we do. not feel competent to speak more 

 fully at present. , 



9. Products of early and late fruits. — ^A house plant of the Cur- 

 rant-Ithaca hybrid dascribed last year (Bulletin 32, p. 165) gave 

 its first rii)e fruit December 3, 1S91. Seeds were saved from this, 

 and also fi'om another fiMiit upon the same plant which matured 

 March 18, 1892. These seeds were sown at the same time, and at 

 the same time, also, cuttings were taken from the plant. The thi*ee 

 lots made the following record: 



TABLE XV. — Products of Early and Late Fruits, to Frost. 



The poorest results were got from the seeds of the earliest 

 fruit. The earliesft picking was obtained from the cuttings, but the 

 heaviest yield came from seedlings of the late fruit. The light 

 yields are due to the variety, it being a cherry-like tomato. The 

 table also affords a comparison of seedlings and cuttings, as 

 discussed in section 8, the cuttings being earliest, and producing 

 more than one lot of seedlings and less than another. The accoin- 

 panying picture shows the status of these three lote at the picldng 

 of July twenty- seventh. The left-hand sample comprises all the 

 fruits picked from the dozen plants of No. 2 — products of late 

 fniit; the middle one, those picked from No. 3 — the cuttings, and 

 the right-hand samples is the picking of No. 1 — the product of 

 first ripe fruit. It may seem strange that early fruits should give 

 less yield than late ones, but the result is not novel. We found 

 the same thing to be true last year in a number of varieties, and 

 similar results have been obtained elsewhere. In our experiments 

 last year there were no consitant differences between the sets in 



