262 NEW JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL 



, SOME GENERAL OBSERVATIONS DRAWN FROM THE STUDY OF , 

 BL'ENDS WITH THEIR PARENTS. 



1. The vegetative function of the blend is usually greater than 

 that of either parent. 



2. The size of fruit of the blend is generally intermediate 

 (sometimes larger than that of either parent). 



3. The thickness of flesh of the blend fruit is quite generally 

 the same as that of the thicker parent but sometimes exceeds it. 



4. Earliness is generally dominant over lateness. 



5. The deep-lobed leaf is usually more potent than the slightly 

 lobed leaf. 



6. The shape of fruit is equally influenced by both parents. 



7. Wartiness is generally dominant over smoothness. 



8. Yellow is most generally dominant over cream color. 



9. Solid colors are quite generally stronger than the striped 

 colors. 



10. Cream color is dominant over green in the single blend 

 obtained. 



11. Orange color is quite generally dominant over green. 



12. The male flowers, as a general rule, precede the female 

 flowers; in the summer squashes the difference is from one to 

 five days, and among winter varieties from two to four weeks. 



13. In hybrids, the male flowers may not appear at all or later 

 than the female flowers, in which case they lack pollen. 



EXPERIMENTS IN SELECTION AMONG CROSSES. 



In selecting crosses of winter squashes, the chief point in view 

 was to learn whether shape, size, keeping quality and limited 

 number of seeds are easy to establish. Below is given an account 

 of the progeny of several selected fruits : 



"Delicious-Hitbbard" (3/1). ("Hubbard" type, few seeds). 

 The progeny was variable in color and unlike either parent, the 

 majority of the fruits being gray. The limited number of seeds 

 of the selected mother fruit did not reappear. 



"Delicious-Hubbard" (3/1). ("Hubbard" type, one and a 

 half feet long). This cross gave a variable progeny and, out of 

 fifteen fruits, only one showed length and that was less than one 

 foot. 



"Delicious-Bay State" (3/21). ("Bay State" type; long 

 keeper). While the keeping quality of the progeny remains to 

 be seen, the twenty-one fruits of this cross are interesting for the 



