3i8 NEW JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL 



parents are long and the blend is somewhat midway, but the sur- 

 face coloring is a close reproduction of the "Black Snake," as the 

 other parent has no color value to change it in the blend but in 

 the next generation one-quarter will probably be white. 



"Long White" Upon "New York Improved" (11/18). 



The above-named cross has proved to be unusually attractive 

 and now, five years after it was made, the results warrant offer- 

 ing the seeds of two selections from this one combination under 

 special names for further trials by those who may wish to grow 

 them. 



The "Ivory." 



The male parent in this cross is a variety with plants of 

 medium size, having green stems and leaves and the flowers show- 

 ing only a small amount of the purple common to the ordinary 

 sorts, while the fruits are long, slender, somewhat curved and of 

 a greenish white color. Upon the other hand, the female parent 

 belongs to the group of "medium tall' varieties with dark stems 

 and foliage and large, oval, purple fruits. 



The blend plants of the cross, grown direct from the seed from 

 the fruit resulting from the hand-worked flower, gave a uniform 

 lot of plants in which the color of the mother was dominant in 

 plant and fruit. Seed from these plants, fertilized by hand within 

 the cross, gave a mixed lot of plants, some of which were smaller 

 than others and the stems and leaves of a quarter of them were 

 lacking in the purple color and produced pale flowers and white 

 fruits. In shape they were, however, a blend between the two 

 sizes and shapes of the parents and lost the objectionable green 

 of the male parent. 



By breeding the white strain within itself, it was at once free 

 from the purple of the "New York Improved" and, through isola- 

 tion and selection, there has been developed a block of plants 

 from twelve of which the present season samples are shown 

 in Plate XII. These plants are productive, as a photograph of a 

 single plant with twelve fruits, taken early in October, will bear 



