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tip position 1403. This is 23.66 per cent more pods from the 

 3 rows planted with seeds from the middle of the pod than from 

 the same area planted with seeds from the tip position, and 



TABLE II 

 Number and types of pods for each row, both harvests combined 



18.58 per cent more than the corresponding rows planted with 

 basal seeds. 



The percentage of each pod type in the crop for each pod type 

 planted is given in table III. 



TABLE III 



Table III shows but Kttle variation in the number of 2-ovuled 

 pods, but in 3-ovuled pods there is a decided decrease in the per- 

 centage, going from 2-seeded to 4-seeded, and, of course, a corre- 

 sponding increase in the 4-ovuled pods, and where the percentages 

 are low the differences are great, over 125.66 per cent between the 

 crop from 2-seeded pods and that from 4-seeded pods. In other 

 words, there is seen to be a tendency for seeds from 4-seeded pods 

 to reproduce the mother type of pod. The number of pods for each 



