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6. "Early Ecd Squash" upon "Red Cherry" (28/20). The 

 28 has a medium-sized apple-shaped fruit with a somewhat lobed 

 tip, which with the "Cheriy" yields a nearly uniform set of "Ox- 

 hearts," slightly angular in outline and varying most in the tip, 

 which may be pointed or indented. In the middle pile the five 

 fiTiits are somewhat smaller than these upon either side. 



r. "Upright Sweet Salad" upon "Small Chile" (31/9). The 

 31 has a deepiy-lobed short "apple" upright fruit, while 9 is quite 

 the opposite, excepting that it is also upTiglit. When both parents 

 are upright the fruits of the blend take the s^ame position ; other- 

 wise they are pendant in the blends. This set of three piles shows 

 some variation in size of the fruits and in the tips, but the long 

 parent has had much the greater influence in shaping the blend. 



8. "Red Cranben-y" upon "Red Cherry" (36/20). Both par- 

 ents are small fruited, the 3G being very slender and long, and soon 

 wrinkled upon reaching maturity. The "Cherry" has been men- 

 tioned in two previous crosses in the blend ; while quite uniform, 

 the fruits are nearly as long as 36 and as broad as the "Cherry." 

 The bulk of the fruit has been increased. 



9. "I^om Thumb" upon "Giant Yellow King" (4Y/37). This 

 is a ca^e of a low spreading plant with small ovate-lanceolate up^ 

 right red fruits, being bred to one bearing medium large, deeply- 

 lobed, apple-shaped yellow fruits. This blend is very attra,ctive 

 with its uniform red fruits, produced in great numbers ; size much 

 nearer 47 than 37, but all moire or less angular and the tip some- 

 times pointed. 



10. "New Tomato" upon "Black Nubian" (48/5). In 48 is a 

 firm-fleshed, slightly angular apple-shaped upright fruit, that be- 

 ing bred with the "Nubian" gives a fairly uniform set of medium- 

 sized fruits that represent the "Nubian" at the base and something 

 of the lobation of the "Tomato" in the free end. In color the 

 fruits are mottled indistinctly with red and black, so that some 

 are a rich variable mahogany — an unusual blending in the blend. 



A STUDY OF THE FITJST GENERATION FROM THE BLEND. 



The breedino- together of the "Long Red" (41) and the "Coral 

 Gem" (11) combines an old standard sort of the long type of pend- 

 ant fruit Avith a dwarf kind having a, small upright fruit. There 



