■SOS XEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 



Champion" (177/54), Avliich has been kept in the breeding 

 grounds for some years, plants were grown the present year that 

 had much of the dwarf n ess of the "Champion" with the smooth- 

 ness' of the "Cnrrant." Snch plants are low, spreading with short 

 leaves brought close together and the fruits borne in short racemes, 

 and of the size of small cherries. Economically such plants are 

 nearly worthless and are only retained for purjwses of breeding. 

 During the present season four crosses with the above type of 

 hybrid (177/54) have been grown, namely: (1) "Yellow Prince" 

 (148) ; (2) "Humbert-Ponderosa" (G4/103) ; (3) "Red Cherry" 

 (170), and (4) "Yellow Cherry" (183), in all thirty-eight plant.?, 

 of Avhich eighteen were smooth, eleven hairy, nine intermediate. 



Experiments with Peppers. 



The peppers occupied Series I. of the home grounds and em- 

 braced fully 500 plants. The experiments were in the immediate 

 charge of Mr. Shore, who did not live to carry on the woi'k beyond 

 the setting of the pilants in the open. Very little breeding was 

 done, and the following record is incomplete. 



peppers in the blend generation. 



Sixty-four blend crosses were grown in the gardens' during the 

 past season. Space would not permit of more than three plants 

 of each cross, as eacli specimen was given sixteen square feet that 

 it might not be crowded, and admit of easy observation from all 

 sides. There were some accidents, and in some instances only one 

 or t^^o plants reached maturity. 



The season was so unfavoTable that probably all the plants were 

 undersized, but as a whole they were abundantly fruitful. Less 

 satisfactory results obtained with the parents, which in the attempt 

 to grow the plants from year-old seed, and thereby introduce no 

 confusing elements due to possible variation in commercial seed,, 

 failure resulted in some instances so that it was not possible to 

 get a reeord in all cases of both blend and parent plants. While 

 no countsi were made or weights taken it was evident at a glance 

 that the blend plants far surpassed the commercial sorts in out- 

 put of fruit. 



