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siiijill vjiricty in cvory way, and the ''Banana" produces ears, as 

 a rule, smaller than the "Country Gentleman/' but in the crop 

 obtained in ihc l.hiid they were more nearly the size of the "Stow- 

 • •ITs Evergreen" and varieties of that type. 



TlK-rc is a tendency to produw^ suckers in the blend plants, ex- 

 cecdinjr that in the parents and far beyond that of the plants that 

 follow in after years. In short, the vigor seems to be much en- 

 hanced by the operation of the cross, and it may be true, and evi- 

 dence ]x>ints that way, that the wider the cross among varieties 

 the greater the increase in vital activities. 



The crosses of swe^'t and po]) corns Avere wide, indeed, and here 

 the blend plants, oven upon very poor soil, grew A-igorously, and, 

 where possible, i)roduced ears that outmeasured the average of the 

 parents. Thus the "IJhick Pop" upon ''Country Gentleman" pro- 

 duced ears exceeding in length the average of the two varieties 

 involved, and under the same circumstances their progeny may fall 

 far short of the same <]iiiieiisions. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH TOMATOES. 

 Old Varieties Groitrni the Present Season. 



The lunnher of eomniercial varieties of tomatoes grown the pres- 

 ent season is much reduced from that of the two previous years. 

 The list includes only the parents of the crosses that were selected, 

 for testing in the Gardens, to which was added the novelties that 

 appeared for the season of 1906. The following is the list of the 

 parents,, entered here without comment, as the notes upon them 

 have been givcMi in ]>revious reports: 



