432 State Boaud op Agkicdlture, &c. 



Drop pure again, I cannot deny. Usually, however, it failed 

 to gatlier up again all the characters peculiar to either type, 

 so effectually had hybridization segregated them and dis- 

 persed tliera through the direct offspring of the cross, the 

 plants of the previous or first year, and was compelled to 

 leave them scattered irrecoverably and entering without law 

 into new combinations innumerable. 



When I saw this medley among my crosses, I relinquished 

 my expectation of speedy advantage from the experiment ; 

 and, but for the aid which selection oifered me, would have 

 remitted altogether a work involving so much of care and 

 patience, and yielding such perplexity and disappointment. 

 Selecting, however, a few of the most distinct and promising 

 forms, and beginning again the third year, with the product of 

 single plants, as before, planting in separate drills, and if 

 any sporting appeared in the drill, as was almost invariably 

 the case, though the degree of variation became less and 

 less, selecting from the drill in such event the best plant, 

 the one which approached nearest the ideal appointed for 

 that drill, to yield seed for the next year, I have succeeded, 

 after four years, in fixing the character of several varieties. 

 The sway of inheritance in them is no longer disputed, and 

 they come true from seed. 



No. 6 is a bald, red chaff variety, with its kernel small, 

 scarcely longer than broad, and very tawny in color. 



No. 7. Bald; red chaff; kernel large and plump, red- 

 dish. 



No. 9. Bald ; chaff nearly white ; kernel large, red, verj 

 plump. 



