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out stripes. Among the seeds but little variety of form and 

 marking prevailed. All were mottled and, therefore, showed no 

 pure white seeds, and thirteen showed unmistakably the "Scarlet 

 Runner" parentage in the flat, kidney-shaped seed and the dark 

 purple blotches upon a lighter background of the same color. 

 Three sets showed white upon the back, which may be due to the 

 "China Red Eye," which has a white seed with a pink "eye." 

 This latter character is not seen in any of the hybrids. 



In this hybrid the type of plant follows closely the bush parent, 

 but in the seeds there is a strong likeness to^ the "Scarlet Runner." 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SQUASHES. 

 Summer Squashes. 



Space does not permit of the full statement in tabular form of 

 the results of the large area of summer squashes. From hand- 

 worked fruits, either Avithin the plant or the cross, of forty' 

 crosses grown in 1906, selections of seed were made this season 

 of those that conformed to desired types with acceptable size and 

 freedom from warts. Twenty-five rows of squashes were grown 

 from seeds from close-fertilized fruits and twenty-three from 

 those that had been pollinated within the cross. 



The total number of fruits in the rows planted with close-fertil- 

 ized seeds was 799 and in the rows with seeds fertilized within 

 the cross, 804, giving an average of 32 fruits and 35 fruits per 

 row respectively. The fruits in any row adhere more closely to 

 parent type than last year. 



From a study of the results, it is found that of the twenty-hve 

 sets of plants from close-fertilized seed but two showed any 

 marked variation from the type of the parent fruit. Among the 

 sets from seeds resulting from pollination within the cross but 

 not within the plant, the conformity to type was somewhat less 

 general. It is evident that the "J^g^' type of squash is becoming 

 fixed. 



