EXPERIMENT STATION REPORT. 



325 



Mother plant i was medium-sized, with dark, smooth and purple foliage 

 with no spines and bore 24 fruits. ♦ 



No. 1,. 

 2,. 

 3,. 



4,. 

 5,. 



9,. 

 10,. 

 11,. 

 12,. 

 13,. 



Siize. 



Color. 



Dwarf Purple, 



Dwarf Purple, 



Tall Purple, 



Spines. 



Sm. smooth, . 

 Med. smooth, 

 Med. smooth. 



Dwarf, 



Purple, I Sm. smooth, . 



Tall, Purple, 



Tall, I Purple, 



Tall, Purple, 



Medium, . 



Tall, 



Tall 



Medium, . 

 Tall 



Green, 

 Purple, 

 Green, 

 Purple, 

 Purple, 

 Dwarf I Purple, 



Med. smooth. 

 Wrinkled, . . 

 Wrinkled, . . 



Large, 



Lar. wrlnk.,. 

 Med. wrink., 

 Med. smooth. 



Large 



Med. smooth, 



No, 

 Yes, 

 No, 

 No, 

 No, 

 No, 

 No, 

 No, 

 Yes, 

 No, 

 No, 

 No, 

 Yes, 



Flowers. 



None,* 



White, 



White, 



Purple, 



Purple, 



Purple, 



White, 



None, 



White, 



White, 



White, 



Purple, 



White, 



No. of 

 Fruits. 







67 



35 



18 



55 











3 



3 











17 



91 



Mother plant 5 was medium-sized with stems green, foliage light green, 

 spineless and bore 15 fruits. 



No. 1,. 

 2,. 



3,. 

 4,. 

 5,. 



Tall, . 

 Tall, . 

 Tall, . 

 Dwarf, 

 Dwarf, 

 Dwarf, 

 Tall, . 

 Dwarf, 



Color. 



Green, 

 Green, 

 Green, 

 Green, 

 Green, 



Wrinkled, 

 Wrinkled, 

 Smooth, . 

 Smooth, . 

 Wrinkled, 



Purple Wrinkled, 



Green Smooth, . 



Green, Smooth, . 



Flowers. 



White, 



None, 



White, 



None, 



None, 



Purple, 



White, 



None, 



No. of 

 Fruits. 



87 

 

 3 

 

 

 2 



35 

 



Mother plant 7 was low with purple stems and foliage, spiny and had 24 

 fruits. 



'No flowers were present at time observations were made, October 10th. 



