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It is seen that somewhat more than half were bush plants. The 

 term "bush" and "half-vine" are convenient terms, but not here 

 nsed with any exact meaning. A bush is a plant with a stem aver- 

 aging two and one-half feet in length and a half vine Avith a pros- 

 trate stem five to ten feet long. The present figures were obtained 

 in particular from the plants after the leaves had fallen and the 

 prostrate stems could bei easily measured. As a matter of fact, 

 in blend plants like these between a true bush and a regular vine 

 squash there is great dilficulty in the above classification. The 

 vines were all short ; that is, none of them exceeded the ten-foot 

 limit set for convenience as the length to be obtained under normal 

 conditions of the "eoeo.anut" plant. In other words, the bush type 

 dominated very fully, and one needs to O'bserve the lengths of the 

 stems of the plants that follow in the next generation to get the 

 necessary facts as to this unum. 



It is seen that there is nearly the same per cent, of shell fruits 

 with the bush as the half-vine plants. It is noted that the number 

 with shell is just double those Avithout the shell. In the matter of 

 this hard covei- at maturity there is range from those: with a shell 

 a quarter of an inch thick to others with only a thin protection. 

 The test was made with an awl that was thrust into the flesh of 

 the squash, and the decision was made upon the amount of re- 

 sistance to the passage of the awl. 



A division was attempted upon the basis of color of the bush, 

 the deep solid orange of the male parent being for one group and 

 those not showing this for the other. The latter exhibiting a great 

 variety of stripes and blotches of green and orange, including those 

 with a sreen area at the blossom end of the fruit. A little more 

 tlian a fifth of the fruits were of the pure deep orange type and 

 suggests that there is a unum that might adhere to the Mendelian 



rule. 



Of the many oiher peculiarities, as size and shape of the fruits, 

 little can be set down with any degree of satisfaction at present. 

 The cross involved many characters and it is impossible to estab- 

 lish any rule for any single quality, without having a much larger 

 number of instances. 



