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pistillate parent has longer fruit. The effect of the staminate 

 parent in giving color to the foliage was more marked than in 

 series A. In no case was there an absence of the purplish tinge 

 of Black Pekin, and frequently the color was nearly as dc^op as 

 in the parent. The fruit was of intermedia ce color, but with the 

 purple predominating. In form, a few of ihe fruits resembled the 

 staminate parent; and many resembled the jiistilLite paient, 

 while others were wholly distinct. 



Four fruits were again crossed or selected in 1890 from Ihis 

 series : 



CI. Pollinated by another flower from same plant. 



Extent of -variation in the "C" crosses. (1800.) 



C3. Pollinated by Black Pekin (original staminate pan^iti. 



04. Selection, not artiflcijilly pollinited. Seen at iIk^ extreme 

 left in the illustration. It was very angular at the ends, ])uiple 

 with a metallic-gray apex. 



In these lots, the frait pollinated from the same plant, CI, ga\(' 

 a variable and very unproductive offspring. C3, into Avhich 

 Black I'ekiii has gone twice, gave only purple truits. C4 was 

 the one which we particularly desired to iix, for the (U'igiiial 

 fruit had strong points of merit. This fruit gav3 us 109 plauts. 

 none of which, however, were like the parent, and none s(^ 'med 

 to possess superior merits. Only thirty-one of the plauts from 

 it produced fruits before the frost, and of these five had green 



