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a wide range in size, but the same correlation. The last pair of 

 ten seeds is of a gourd, "Chinese Bottle Gourd" (50), in which 

 the seeds are smaller from the smaller fruit as shown elsewhere. 



Out of thirty-four instances examined there were only four 

 exceptions, and in these the size of the seeds was either prac- 

 tically alike in the two fruits or only a slight variation from it. 



In connection with the thickening of the flesh the problem of 

 seed content is not tO' be overlooked, and facts are to be sought 

 that may throw light upon the improvement of the variety, both 

 in greater percentage of food in the fruit and vigor of the plant 

 that produces it. In other words, the selecting for thick flesh 

 may, in a measure, be a selecting of the fruits with low seed con- 

 tent, and a fruit that produces but few seeds may give them better 

 conditions for a superior development that shows itself in 

 stronger plants. An inverse correlation may exist between flesh 

 content and seeding capacity, which carried, a step further may 

 mean better equipped plants from the seeds of thick-fleshed fruits. 



Reports from Testers for Station Winter Squash No. 2; Delicious — Bay 



State (3/21). 



"Have seven healthy plants." "Foliage is heavy, fruits assorted 

 sizes and colors and of various shapes, oval; pointed at one end; 

 flat and round and some slim and tapering. Colors vary from 

 drab, dark green, to light green and yellow. One is now ripe 

 and is of a reddish tinge. It was yellow when growing. Fruit 

 is now setting in abundance." "Vines made a rank growth, fruit 

 set fine, color light green. Shape like a bowl." "Germinated 

 well. Plant vigorous. Fruit plentiful in numbers and quite 

 uniform in size." "The plant is good size, quite productive." 

 "My winter squash is very nice and productive, as many as ten 

 squash on a plant of good size and uniform color." "The vines 

 are very productive, spreading quite a distance and bearing fruit 

 of medium size." "Color yellow, shape almost round, some oval, 

 doing well." "It did very well-, medium size and vigorous 

 grower." "Very hardy and productive. Made a good growth 

 where 'Hubbard,' grown on same ground, failed on account of 

 borer and adverse weather conditions." "Squashes were not very 

 large but nice size for small family ; the quality is fine, much like 

 the 'Hubbard.' " "The squashes are both long and flat in shape. 

 The vines are quite productive, although the squashes are all 



