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One of tlio striking features of this plot of IjIcikI poppers was 

 the uniformity of the ]>huits in the same cross; there might be a 

 variation in size of plant chio to local conditions, but a& a rule the 

 three ]3lants of a set were all alike in the varioius characteristics 

 of branching, foliage, flower and fruit. This is shown in Plate 

 IX., where five mature fruits from (Bach of the three^ plants of a 

 given cross, gathcTed without seeking for any uniformity, are ar- 

 ranged side by side in three ])iiles. The following are the ten 

 crosses shown : 



1. "Large Pull" u\m\ ''Red Cberry" (2/20) ; that is, a variety 

 with a medium large flabby fruit with the tip deepily lobed ("bull 

 nose" or "cat face"), is bred with a sort having a nearly spiherical, 

 small, smooth berry — the result is a fruit of double the contents 

 of tlie "clierry" or without the flabby deep lobes of the "Large 

 Bull." In point of yield of fruit flesh, this cross is doubtless far 

 ahead of either jjcrent. 



2. "Celestial" upon "Giant Yellow King" (7/34) is a cross be- 

 tweeai two sorts that are nearly the same size, and the three piles 

 show great uniformity. The parents were both upright f ruit( d, 

 and the crO'SS is likewise. 



3. "Celestial" upon "Tom Thumb" (7/47) is a cross between 

 a high and a low plant, and in this regard the blend is a very uni- 

 form set of three low bushy plants. The pale yellow color of the 

 "Celestial" fniits is lost from view beneath the red of the "Tom 

 Thumb." The general shape of the fniits, O'vate-lanceolate, and 

 agreement in size of the two plants naturally brings uniformity 

 in thoise characteristics! in the blend fruits. Both parents have 

 upright fruits and the same is true of the blend. 



4. "Golden Dawn" upon "Black Nubian" (14/5). In this 

 combination the male parent has medium large lobed orange, mild 

 fruit, and the female with a long, oblong, smooth, dark purple- 

 red fruit. The uniformity of the blend fruits is shown in the 

 plate; they have all the length of the "Nubian" and somewhat of 

 the breadth of the "Dawn," with a color that is a striking mixture 

 of the twO' parents, in which the many frnits all agree. 



5. "Red Cluster" upon "Glenmont Giant" (21/38). The male 

 parent has a vei*y long slender curved ujiright frait, while the fe^ 

 male is the opposite, namely, a broad, deeiply-lobed, medimn large 

 ]iendant fruit. The blends, while quite uniform in general size 

 and shape, vary greatly in the tip of the fruit, which in some is 

 pointed like 21 and in others lobed somewhat as in 38. The fruits 

 are pendant like the mother, but wrinkled like the male parent. 



