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"Gold Ball" Crosses. 



The several crosses of the "Gold Ball" did not bring any thing- 

 promising from the commercial standpoint, but some facts of in- 

 terest in breeding were gathered. The ''Gold Ball" is slow and 

 it deeply influenced all its crosses in this respect, but its color 

 fell into the category with other, yellow-fruited tomatoes and 

 gave one-quarter of its own color when bred with red and pink 

 sorts. When crossed with "Ivory Ball," which is a kind with its 

 small fruits of a pale shade of yellow, there was produced a va- 

 riety of shades of lemon as though the yellow of the "Gold Ball" 

 had been diluted by the ^'Ivory Ball." 



The "Globe" Crosses. 



The "Globe," a pink variety with fruit of a well-developed 

 apple form and, therefore, with its polar axis long for the equato- 

 rial diameter, has been freely used in the attempts to get a fruit 

 that has much greater proportional length. Of the combination 

 with "Brinton's Best," there have been grown a row of both the 

 pink and red-fruited kinds, and both were practically alike ex- 

 cepting the character of color, and from these superior plants 

 seeds from the longest fruits have been saved with much hope of 

 making substantial gains toward the end sought. One set of 

 plants was grown from seeds saved from a long fruit of last 

 year, and here the most encouragement is met with. In the row 

 where the "Red Pear" "blood" has been added to the above cross, 

 the effect was to drag the offspring down in size to a level of the 

 "Pear" but the neck was rounded out and a "plum" resulted. In 

 the case of the "Red Plum," added as above stated for "Pear," 

 the fruit became larger than the latter and might well be said to 

 be a small "apple." It remains to be seen in the quest for length 

 and its desired accompaniments, whether the "Pear" is better 

 than the "Plum." 



The cross with the "Duke of York" was disappointing, for 

 the irregularity in the fruit was augmented and the lateness of 

 the crop proved an objectionable feature. With "Imperial," some 



