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to reduce the size of the fruita of the cross is not aceonnted for, 

 however, and is contrary tO' the general i*ulo with allied plants as 

 the tomato and eggplant. 



There is a marked difference in the type of foliage in the set, 

 for at least seven, with the chistereid form of leaves, show this 

 fully as in the mother parent as evidenoed by the specimens placed 

 directly to the left of the "Red C'luster" in the engraving. 



The following tabular form expresses some of the results: 



Prostrate plants 8. 



Bushy — 15 inches liigh. 



Compact folia.uo. o. 

 Scattered foliage, .1. 



("(iini)act fuliaji'e, o. 

 Scattered foliage, 5. 



Bushy — 24 inches high. 



Compact foliage. 1. 

 Scattered foliage, 2. 

 Total compact foliage, 7; scattered foliage. 12. 



As a matter of record there were eleven pilants with red fruits ; 

 six with orange, and four that were intermediate in color; that is, 

 orange^red. The appearance of the straight orange in such large 

 numbers is not accounted for, excepting that the mother plants 

 often show a strong mixture of orange in the over-ripe fruits. 



While there is grave doubt as to the accuracy of the name of 

 "Cranberry," as associated upon the seedsman's packet, wdth the 

 seeds used for the male jiarent of the above cross, the group of off- 

 spring is given nevertheless. Doubly unfoTtunate, no seeds of the 

 original packet grew this season, and a study of this questio'nable 

 parent has been forestalled. It has behaved as the "Red Cluster" 

 might he expected to do in combination with the "Red Cherry." 



The "Red Cherry" (20) is a late, widely-branching plant, with 

 a round, smooth dark red pendant fruit, an inch in diameter, and 

 :firm of flesh. A sample spray is shown in the lower right-hand 

 corner of Plate XIII. The "Cranberry" (36) on the other hand, 

 as recorded for last year, was a dwarf with the long slender up- 

 right fruits borne among the clusters of long leaves. A dwarf 

 plant that most nearly resembled this parent is represented in the 

 first spray in the picture. The shapes of the fruit here fall gen- 

 erally into two groups: (1) the round and (2) the slender; of the 

 former, there being four and the latter tw^elve with four inter- 



