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well and there is much promise of securing further improvement 

 by breeding. The plant is spineless. 



No. 7. This long fruit is a combination of "J^^^sey Belle" 

 upon the "Fordhook-Chinese" (10///14/25) and therefore is a 

 three-quarters blood "American." It is, perhaps, as desirable in 

 every way as the preceding one although lacking in size, because 

 long fruits are better adapted for culinary purposes. The sec- 

 tion (7) shows more seediness than the last but in this respect 

 it is ahead of many of the "American" sorts. 



No. 8. This is a representative of the last combination, in 

 which the oval shape is well shown, but the interior is faulty in 

 having much of the openness of the "Chinese" fruit. 



No. 9. This brings the reader to a kind of fruit borne usually 

 in clusters that is the direct result of the breeding of the "Amer- 

 ican" upon the "Chinese" (14/25). The slice (9) exhibits the 

 corrugations of the exterior and the five somewhat double seed- 

 cavities with much vacant space around the seeds. 



No. 10. An extreme form of the last-named hybrid. is here 

 shown, a long fruit approaching the "American" parent ("Ford- 

 hook") in appearance and interior structure. Here, as in many 

 others of the hybrids, the exterior color is striped, particularly 

 at the free end. 



No. II. In this small, apple-shaped fruit is the blood of the 

 "Chinese" upon the "Dwarf Purple" (25/6), in which case the 

 union is reversed and the "American" species becomes the 

 mother. In texture, the fruit is nearly ideal and it seems possible 

 by further infusion of "American" blood to obtain a variety of 

 high market value. 



No. 12. Quite different from the last, but of the same com- 

 bination, are the fruits shown in a cluster at 12. In every way 

 they are a close representative of the pure "Chinese" in orange 

 color, flat and corrugated shape and large and numerous seed 

 cavities. 



No. 13. This, with the last two, all of which are the same 

 union, furnishes a fine example of the variations that may take 

 place when two species as widely diverse as these here involved 

 are bred together. The color, size and shape of the fruit place 

 it among the "American" and it is only when the skin and 

 interior are studied that the combination becomes apparent. 

 There are many greenish, pulpy seed cavities arranged in a circle 

 not far from the thick skin that are evident and bear a bitter 

 principle derived from the "Chinese" parent that renders the 

 fruit unfit for the table. 



