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Journal of Agriculture. 



[10 March, 1909. 



Iruit generally. No doubt the production of seed might influence the 

 development of the flesh of the fruit, but that is all. It would not 

 account for the fertilized ovary of a Corinth currant assuming the form 

 of a Muscat, and even self-fertilization would only account for the forma- 

 tion of seed and the enlargement of the berry. There is a striking instance 

 of the self-fertilization of the Corinth currant given by A. Jurie, in the 

 Revue de Viticulture for 5th September, 1896. One bunch was selected 

 early in the season, before the commencement of flowering, and enclosed 

 in a paper bag, to prevent the access of any foreign pollen. Two other 

 bunches of the same vine were carefullv pollinated in the oj)en, one with 

 last season's pollen of Aramon-rupestris-Ganzin, and the other with fresh 

 pollen of the same vine, the object being to compare the virility of fresh 

 pollen with that of a year old. In due course he found, to his great 



TWO ABNORMAL BUNCHES FROM CORINTH CURRANT VINE. 



astonishment, tliat the two bunches, which were artiticially ix)llinated, 

 produced only the small grains characteristic of the Corinth, while, on 

 exposing the self-fertilized bunch, he saw a superb bunch with close oblong 

 berries, all equal, and containing pips. (See illustration on page 147.) 

 Thus, neither self-fertilization nor cross-fertilization would account for the 

 production of !Muscat-like and piebald berries on a Corinth currant vine. 

 It has been suggested that the dark and the light berries, with seeds, on 

 ihe abnormal bunches, from Mildura, represent the two parents, from the 



