496 XEW JERSEY AGEICULTUEAL COLLEGE 



powii. All of The vow having Xo. 21 was solid of the kind of the- 

 parent. 



liow 7. While this row was sown with seeds from six heads of 

 the same type' — 21-y (dark red, red orange) — no two sections were- 

 alike, and in three the blooms were mixed. The finest plants were 

 in the second section, from which seed from bagged heads was 

 saved. The general type here was of the garden species, with no 

 sign (if pnrple in the stem or leaf, bnt differing greatly in the color 

 and size of the llowers. It was a very distinct hybrid that is full 

 of promise. 



Kow 8. This was made np of fonr sections, all sown with seeds- 

 from heads with color, dark red (12). With the exception of one 

 plant, the parent color was present in all the offspring in the first 

 two sections. In the third section there were no two plants alike, 

 suggesting that in this instance there was an error, and the head 

 used had not been covered during the season of bloom. 



Row 9. This was sown with No. 242 (dark red, red violet), and 

 in the first section there was a large percentage of the same type. 

 save with the yellow eye (2-12-y). The same was true of the third 

 section, where 60 per cent, were 242-y. In the last two sections 

 the plants were all solid 242. 



Row 10. This was sown with 'No. 233 (red violet), and made a 

 remarkably strong line of plants. In the third section, while 

 nearly all were true to parent, a few had a yellow ^'eye" (233-y), 

 two were with nearly white flowers, and one a most delicate shade 

 of peach. All the plants in this row had but few (15 to 20) raj 

 flowers with the long tips of the involucre extending beyond the 

 rays, giving a striking ' 'starry" appearance. The next section of 

 twelve feet was unusually fine, approaching the garden species^ 

 having leaves very glaucus, no purple in stems or foliage, with the 

 flowers solid 233 and coiled inward in a most peculiar manner. 



Rows 11, 12 and 13 were made up of several shades, all of which 

 were quite close to the parent type. 



Row 14. This was sown with 234 (light red violet), and con- 

 sisted of seven sections ; they all came true to parent type. 



Row 15. This was sown with seed gathered from plants of ISTo. 

 95 (yellow), confined under mosquito netting during the blooming 

 period. The plants were all true to parent color (95), but were- 

 evidently a combination in many respects of the two species in- 

 volved in the hybrid. 



