- New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. Q75 
icties, or in other words, fee, for a purpose. When the 
A special Adie of studying the potency of the pollen A different 
varieties, drawings of several were made, some of which are incor- 
_ porated in this report. So much has been said against the theory 
of the influence of pollen showing on the first fruits that the 
pollenized plants bear, that these plates will be of interest to 
__ those who are endeavoring to solve this question. 
A DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 
Cut No. 1.— Crescent fertilized with Old Iron Clad. Fruits are 
more of Iron Clad type than Crescent, but the largest fruit flat- 
4 _ tened much more than is typical of either parent. 
~~ ~No. 2.— Crescent fertilized with Lennig White. The large fruits 
totally unlike either parent. Of Sharpless type and color. 
No. 3.— Crescent fertilized with Sharpless. All fruits close to 
’ Crescent type. Not any resemblance to Sharpless.’ 
No. 4.— Crescent fertilized with Dawley. One fruit of slightly 
Dawley type. 
No. 5.—Johnson’s Late fertilized with Lennig White. Fruits 
type of Johnson’s Late. 
No. 6.— Johnson’s Late fertilized with Sharpless. Fruits, type of 
os Johnson’s Late. 
No. 7.— Johnson’s Late fertilized with Dawley. Fruits of John- 
son’s Late type. 
_ No. 8.— Louise fertilized hat Lennig ‘White. This gives a 
strange result. As across on a variety received here as Louise 
(but pistillate and of the same shape as Lida) both parents bear 
almost round fruits. Both fruits are very large, flattened and in 
_ every respect almost identical with Sharpless. 
Nos. 9, 10 and 11 are valuable as showing with increased 
emphasis the pollen-resisting qualities of the variety Johnson’s 
Late as compared with any other variety used in our tests. Nos. 
12 and 13 show slight trace of the Dawley type, noticeably the 
latter. Nos. 14 and 15 give conflicting results which are only 
harmonized by the fact of one blossom alone being fertilized, thus 
putting the entire vigor into the only fruit borne, thus causing an 
abnormal growth. 
pollen variety, had fruits of wide variation. Plants of 
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