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nary sorts. It is entirely seedless, as is the rule when the flowers 

 are hand- worked. The other portion of the plate shows one-half 

 of each fruit, making in all thirty-nine tomatoes represented. A 

 card an inch square is introduced to indicate size of the fruits and 

 the number (220) it bears is that of this sort in the record books, 

 and any results of crossing with it that may be affected. 



A study of the slice-views will show that the number of seed 

 cavities (locules) ranges from three to seven. The general ab- 

 sence of seeds gives a conspicuous pulp cavity, but because of the 

 thick, but tender wall, the fruits are not flabby and keep well. 



Tomatoes with Yellow Foliage. 



The field of tomatoes has shown several plants with the char- 

 acteristic yellow foliage. Such plants, while they have a sickly 

 appearance, do not seem to be suffering from any disease. It is 

 possible that the plants with this character do not mature their 

 fruit quite as early as those with ordinary foliage of the same 

 cross. 



The following crosses showed the yellow foliage : "Freedom" 

 upon the cross of "Honor Bright" upon "Freedom" (54//60/54), 

 three out of the four plants, which was a large number, consider- 

 ing that "Honor Bright" is the variety that carries the yellow 

 foliage. In the cross of "Honor Bright" upon "Honor Bright- 

 Fortune" (60//60/53), there were only two out of ten plants 

 with the yellow foliage. In another compound cross, as above, 

 with "Frogmore" in place of "Freedom," the yellow plants were 

 two out of five. In the cross of "Aristocrat" upon "Princess" 

 (149/109), the first generation, the yellow plants were three 

 yellow and one green and in the cross between the "Dwarf Cham- 

 pion " and "Dandy Dwarf" (153/158) , all four plants showed the 

 yellow color. 



There is much to be done to satisfactorily determine the nature 

 of the yellow foliage, but there are strong indications that it is a 

 unit character (iimun) with the green foliage as its opposite. 



In the two present instances of the first generation, the yellow 

 color shows in the blend in all the plants with one exception^ but 



