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having coarse foliage and the other fine, tlie coarse type M'ill come 

 out in the first generation after the blend (which blend should theo- 

 retically be standard) as onet-qnarter of all the plants, and when 

 bred by themselves ever after remain as a pure ooarse-leaved sort. 

 The coarse and fine-leaved una, so to say, are antagonistic and th(; 

 fine dominates over the coarse with iki intermediates when the 

 Mendelian rule is maintained. 



As a matter of fact, Plate VIII. .-hows the result of breeding 

 together of four commercial varieties as follows: In 1905 the 

 "Magnus" (75) a coarse-leaved standard variety, with firm apple- 

 shaped fmitsi, was bred to a cross of "Magnus" upon "C'rimson.- 

 C^ishion" (26), giving a mixture of coarse and fine-leaved plants. 

 Coarf'D-leaved plants from this derivative cross were grown in 

 1000, and at the same time plants of a cross of "Ponderosa" upon 

 "Sumatra Eig" (103/181). This latter cross gave plants that 

 bore long apple-shaped fruits, and a plant selected for its length 

 was bred in 1907 upon the "Magnus-Magnus' Crimson Cushion" 

 (75/775/2(>) cross above mentioned. One result of this com- 

 ]!ound cross was a coarse-leaved plant with "plum" fniits. By 

 breeding this plant within itself, seeds were obtained that fur- 

 nished a set of six plants, the present year, that agreed quite 

 closely in respect to the foliage and fruit. Plate VIII. shows 

 three sprays from as many plants with clusters of the fruits. The 

 jihotograph was necessarily taken very late in the season, and the 

 ])lants ]!ast their Ijest condition. 



It may be noted that the foliage is not as coarse; as that of the 

 average "MagniTs" plant, but readily belongs to that type. The 

 fruits likewise show some signs of the neck of the "Sumatra Fig." 

 The ]>eculiarities of the "Ponderosa" and the "Crimson Cushion" 

 are not in evidence, and it is ix)ssible that the plum-shaped fruit 

 and coarse foliage might have been reached by a more simple com- 

 bination of the "!^[agnus" and "Sumatra Fig." 



THE JERSEY ORANGE TOMATO. 



The cross "Station Yellow-Magnus'" (210/75) was bred last 

 year upon "Station Yellow-Dwarf Stone" (210/1G9) and the 

 blend plants were grown the present season, producing a remark- 

 ably noticeable row of plants bearing fruits of a rich orange color, 



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