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When the above cross was bred upon the ''Scallop" the results 

 show a largo scallop fairly uniform throughLOut the thirteen hills. 

 The reciprocal of this double cross (10//10/46) showed more 

 variation, namely, scallop 11, oval 22 and intermediate 32. The 

 row of (10/40//46) was remarkable for the heavy crop of fine 

 orange pumpkins, with an occasional fruit inclined to be flat and 

 showing other signs of the scallop "blood." 



The cross of "Mammoth White Scallop" upon "Strickler's" 

 (10/11) was bred upon "CocO'anut," a vine squash so named be- 

 cause the fruits are the shape (and size) of a cocoanut deprived 

 of its fibrous coat. The record book shows that of the tweoity- 

 nine plants, thirteen had flat scalloped fruits and sixteen, were 

 oval. When the above double cross was bred to the "Cocoanut" 

 again the shape generally was that of the "Cocoanut," there being 

 but one plant with flat fruits. A reciprocal of the last compound 

 cross showed eighteen oval and three flat sets of fruit. 



The compound cross expressed by the form 11///10/11//19 

 gave a very fruitful row of thirteen hills with the fruits all broad 

 straight-neck. When one of the "Strickler" is replaced by a "Scal- 

 lop" and the record formula becomes 10///10/11//19, the fruits 

 are all Avith a scallop. The "Cocoanut" shows its presence in the 

 color, which for the present is purposely kept out of consideration. 



The "Strickler" and "Coco-anut" (11/19 I) in their first gen- 

 eration showed in shape thirty-four plants with long fruits to 

 fourteen with the "Cocoanut" strongly in evidence. Another row 

 with the breeding within the mother plant, the results were long, 

 42 ; round, 5. The long is very potent over the round form. 



By breeding the above cross to the "Cocoanut" as expressed in 

 11/19//19 the results were, 32 long, 35 round. The reciprocal 

 of the last (19//11/19) gave, long, 29; round, 19. In many of 

 the above combinations the actual shape of the fruits is such that 

 no two plants have them alike. Each plant has its own fruits 

 fashioned after the same pattern, so that by leaving one fruit upon 

 each plant all the other fruits might have been most thoroughly 

 mixed up and then returned to the plants that produced them. This 

 fact indicates that the fruit shape (and size, color, marking and 

 other peculiarities as well) is a plant characteristic and not one 

 belonging exclusively to the particular fruit in which it finds ex- 

 pression. 



