300 NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 



BREEDIKG FOR LENGTH. 



The most promising plants of the "Selected long" crO'Sses were 

 bred last year within the plant, and from seed thus secured this 

 season's representation showed an increased uniformity in the 

 shape and size of the fruit. There is still a lack in size before the 

 "goose-egg" type of tomato can be placed in competition with the 

 "flat," "apple" or "globe" sorts. 



In this branch of breeding the best results have come from a 

 combination of a variety with a long polar axis to its fruit with 

 one that is nearly round and having a, thick flesh and firm interior. 

 Thus the "Magnerosa" (227) bred with "Sumatra Eig" (181), 

 "Magnus" with "Globe" (194) and "Giant" (56) with "Globe" 

 have given in each ease pink fruits of fine interior and approach- 

 ing the form desired. At the time of writing the most approved 

 cross has the following formula: 227///103//1O3/181. This 

 means that the "Ponderosa" (103) was. bred upon the "Sumatra 

 Eig" (181), and upon this cross the "Ponderosa" was again bred 

 and finally with this the "Magnus" upon "Ponderosa" derivative. 



The "King Humbert" (64) is a long-axis variety with only two 

 or three cells to the fruit and altogether is flabby and undesirable. 

 Its chief and almost the only good quality, in this connection, is 

 its length, and in striving for that in the cross one is quite certain 

 to secure a fruit that isi misshapen with much work in store to 

 build it into a solid smooth "goose egg." After using the "Hmn- 

 bert" quite freely nearly all its crosses have been discarded as too 

 troublesome. 



A STUDY OF THE SEED CAVITIES. 



The number of seed cavities (locules) in several kinds' of to- 

 matoes was determined by cntting the frnits through their equa- 

 torial diameter. In the following table the one hundred instances 

 for each kind are arranged in their appropriate columns. For ex- 

 ample, "Erogmore" has 56 per cent, three-celled, while "King 

 LTumbert", has 92 per cent, two^oelled. "Jewel," "Magnus" and 

 "Globe" have the largest number, five-celled. The "Ponderosa" 

 has none under six-celled and nearlv all Avere over nine-celled. 



