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mediate. In other words, one with the Mendel ian law in mind 

 might note that it possibly has been active here in regard to the 

 shape of the frnits; as to the position of the fruits upon the stem, 

 four are upiright and sixteen not; that is, fully pendant or par- 

 tially so. It is possible that among these last sixteen, four might 

 be counted as pendant, and eight that are intermediate. The up- 

 per portion of the plate is occupied Avith sprays that show the leaf 

 cluster, more or less. 



A STUDY OF POSITIOK OF THE FEUITS. 



Below is' given a sumnlary of the position of the fruits in the 

 first- generation after the blend : 



No. Cro'iS. 



1 1/36 I 



2 5/9 I 



.3 5/15 I 



4 10/51 I 



5 11/21 I 



U 17/9 I 



7 2.V11 I 



S 26/21 I 



9 28/11 I 



10 28/20 I 



11 31/9 I 



12 36/20 I 



13 38/11 I 



14 41/11 I 



15 42/9 I 



16 42/26 I 2 



17 48/36 I 9 



In all cases where both parents were with pendant fruits, the 

 cross showed only the same position, and in like manner varieties 

 with upright fruits when bred together gave only upright fruits. 



Of the six instances where varieties with unlike position of 

 fruit were crossed, the total result is as follows : Pendant, Gl ; up- 

 right, 32 ; intermediate, 25. If the last are coimted with the pend- 

 ants the uprights! come within easy range of the theoretical num- 

 ber (29.5) in the application of the Mendelian rule for recessive- 

 ness in the upright position. 



