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promising of the three crosses. The plants in this series, as in the former^ 

 were as a rule intermediate between the parents. Much of the vigor of 

 the pistillate parent was transmitted to the offspring, but the leaves were 

 smaller and less distinctly lobed. 



In form the fruits, as a rule, resembled the staminate parent — White 

 Chinese, but they were of greater diameter. The color at edible maturity 

 was rich dark purple, with lighter apex. When fully mature— that is 

 when left for the seed to ripen — the light purple apex became gray, then 

 yellowish like the staminate parent, while the dark purple body of the 

 fruit became dull green. The full extent of variation in this series i& 



Extent of variation in "B" crosses. (1890.) 



shown in the illustration. Eight of these fruits grown in 1890 were 

 selected or again crossed for planting in 1891. These B lots originated 

 as follows: 



BL 

 B2. 

 B3. 

 B4. 

 B5. 

 B6. 

 B7. 

 B8. 



Pollinated by Giant Purple (original pistillate parent.) 

 Pollinated with another tiower on the same plant. 

 Pollinated by Giant Purple, as in Bl. 

 Pollinated with another flower on the same plant, as B2. 

 Pollinated by Giant Purple as in Bl and B3. 



/ Selections, not artificially pollinated. These were attractive fruits of a purple 

 V color and lighter apex, tending to be striped. 



The offspring of these fruits — 479 plants — showed a wide variation in 

 color of herbage, many of them being green, although the greater part 

 of them were purple. As a whole, however, these plants were comparatively 

 uniform in size and habit, and could be distinguished from the A and C 

 series at a considerable distance. The plants were low and bushy, but 

 erect, mostly with a grayish purple tinge when seen in mass. B2, which 

 was pollinated from another flower on the same plant, gave as various 

 fruits as the others. Of eighteen large fruits of it, one was very 

 black purple, six were light purple, and one was purple-striped, nine were 

 green-and- white striped, one was pure white. It is strange, too, that one of 

 the plants of this lot had the peculiar habit of Early Dwarf Purple, h 

 variation also found in one of the A series (A5) which had been similarly 



