CORNELL UNIVERSITY EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 277 





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The poorest results were got from the 

 seeds of the earliest fruit. The earliest 

 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 com- 

 parison of seedlings and cuttings, as dis- 

 cussed in § 8, the cuttings being earliest, 

 and producing more than one lot of seed- 

 lings and less than another. The accom- 

 panying picture shows the status of these 

 three lots at the picking of July 27. The 

 left-hand sample comprises all the fruits 

 picked from the dozen plants of No. 2— 

 products of late fruit; the middle one 

 those picked from No. 3 — the cuttings, 

 and the right-hand sample 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 

 constant differences between the sets in 

 point of earliness. This illustrates the 

 law that any fruit reproduces its parent 

 rather than itself; that is, the character of 

 the plant as a whole is more important 

 than the character of any individual fruit 

 upon it. We should therefore expect 

 better results in earliness by selecting 

 fruits from an early plant rather than by 

 selecting early fruits from an ordinary 

 plant. 



10. Prodvcfs of mature and immature 

 fruits. — In March, a fully ripe fruit, and 

 one which was full grown and was about 

 to begin to color, were selected from a 

 house-grown plant of the Brick tomato 

 —a large, regular, red variety. Plants 

 were grown from each lot of seeds. 



The mature-fruit lot gave the better results, both in earliness and yield. 



11. " Lcggij " j)l(i7ils. — Plants which have grown tall and spindling are 

 known among gnrdeners as "leggy" plants, in distinction to those Avhich 

 are " stocky," or short and stout. Leggy plants usually give very poor 

 results in the field when set in the ordinary manner; but some growers 



