EXPERIMENT STATION REPORT. 495 



EXPERIMENTS 'WITH SALSIFY. 



Plot 4, Series IV., was sown to salsify June 27tli, 1905. In 

 nearly all instancies the seed used was obtained by placing paper 

 bags over young heads of the mother plants, and therefore the off- 

 spring were bred within the single inflorescence. The numbers 

 used below are those of Prang's Color Chart. 



Kow 1. The easternmost part of the plot was sown with seed 

 obtained by plaeing a large beil jar over the plants, thus securing 

 <?rossing Ix^tween plants of two types, namely, 95 (light yellow) 

 .and (Jl-y (darker orange, yellow orange). The record for this 

 row is that the plants were much mixed in color. 



Row 2, This was sown with seed from a solid roAv of selected 

 plants of 93 (yellow). This is the color carried by one of the 

 parents of the hybrid, namely, the wild species {Tragopogon 

 pratensis). This row of tliirty feet Vv^as divided into ten sections, 

 each of which was sown with seeds from different close-fertilized 

 heads. Xo two sections in this row were alike in characteristics 

 of the plants but extremely uniform within the sections from any 

 head. Thus, some sections were- with smaller plants than others ; 

 some liad smooth leaves, others with wavy margins to the foliage. 

 Some sectioais showed pairple in the stems Vvdiile others were green 

 throughout. In short, there were many indications that all the 

 phmts were hybrids. The only characteristic in which there was 

 ■constancy was the color of the flowers. It was a solid yellow row, 

 and, with a single exception, all the ten sections showed the same 

 shade; the second section of over four feet had a lighter shade of 

 yellow — No. 94 of the Prang Chart. 



Kow 3. This was made up of five sections, all quite different in 

 color value, but the whole row showed a very much mixed display 

 of flowers. 



Row 4. This oootisi&ted entirely of 41-y (darker orange, red 

 orange), and proved to be a mixed lot when in bloom. 



Row 5. This was sown with seed of No. 31 (darker red orange), 

 and while the four sections differed from each other in many 

 things, the blooms were all true to the type of the mother plants. 



Row 6. This had 31y (darker red orange) for one portion and 

 21 (dark red, red. OTange) for the other. The fonner had a few 

 yellow (03) blooming plants among these, otherwise true to seed 



