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Disregarding the size on account of the difficuhy of discrimina- 

 tion, the table is reduced to : 



Smooth, Cream, 221 



Smooth, Green, 127 



Total, 348 



Wrinkled, Cream, 26 



Wrinkled, Green, 34 



Total, 60 



In Plate XXII., the seeds from, a plant grown from a smooth, 

 light, large pea are shown at i ; they are of average size and 'both 

 smooth and wrinkled, light and green. At 2 is a similar set from 

 a smooth, light, small seed and it is observed that the size is de- 

 cidedly less than in any other dish in the plate; the smooth peas 

 being easily mistaken for the pure "French Canner," samples of 

 which with the other parent of the cross are shown at 8, ten of 

 each. At 3 is a sample of the result of a smooth, green, large pea 

 and all the seeds are green and large but the smoothness is not 

 so apparent as in the previous dish. At 4 are the seeds represent- 

 ing the output from a smooth, green, small seed and it agrees 

 closely with that for dish 3, all being green but somewhat smaller. 



At 5 is shown a sample of seeds that came from planting a 

 wrinkled, light, large seed and it is seen that the peas are all 

 wrinkled and large with twenty-five per cent, of green seeds. The 

 next dish (6) contains peas resulting from the planting of a 

 wrinkled, light, small seed and the set photographed is practically 

 the same as that show^n at 5, with some diminution in size. The 

 set at 7 is from a wrinkled, green, large pea and all the offspring 

 resemble the parent fully. At 8, for purposes of comparison, the 

 two parents of the cross are given. 



It is too soon to predict the possibilities of this combination, and 

 the lines to be follow^ed further depend upon the end sought. If 

 one desires a small seeded early plant, it may come out of the lot 

 represented in dish 2, when the wrinkled peas will give a truly 

 sweet sort and, if the size is the main thing as with some grrowers 

 for the canneries, the smooth -peas may give the desired end, 



