EXPERIMENT STATION REPORT. 223 



THE "VOORIIEES RED-STO\VELl/s EVERGREEN'" CROSSES. 



During 1910. two blocks of the above cross were grown, 

 namely: (i) planted with pink grains and (2) dark red 

 ("black") grains. The ears from the pink grains all had the 

 same color with variations as to the depth of the shade, suggest- 

 ing that the amount was an ear characteristic. Some of the ears 

 showed a small percentage of white, thus indicating that there 

 were some "hybrid" grains planted, but the ratio was much less 

 than that demanded by the Mendelian rule because of the swamp- 

 ing effect of the great prqxmderance of pure pink parent plants. 

 On the other hand, some of the ears had a small percentage of 

 dark grains and. in rare instances, a white kernel. Two ears are 

 shown at i and 2 in Plate I.* 



The block planted with the "black" (dark red) grains had the 

 ears generally very dark ; some with no white kernels ; while others 

 showed a background of similar "black" grains in which was scat- 

 tered a small percentage of white. In the solid dark ears that 

 doubtless arise from a pure "black" grain, there was a small 

 percentage of pink grains that seem to have resulted from the 

 action of white pollen, for there was more or less of this recessive 

 throughout the whole block. Three ears of this strain are shown 

 at 3, 4, and 5, the latter with a few white grains. 



THE "VOORHEES RED-ECIYI'TI AN" CROSS. 



Similarly to the last, the cross between the "Voor- 

 hees" and "Egyptian" has been continued for another 

 generation. The ears from the pink grain were pink, 

 some of them solid with here and there a grain 

 darker than the others, while other ears had a small per cent, 

 of white as shown at 6 and 7, the latter being solid red. The 

 block planted with "black" grains usually gave solid black ears 

 or those with a few red or white grains (8). There was a 

 strong tendency toward flintiness in some ears, as shown in 

 No. 9. 



THE "VOORHEES RED-GOLDEN BANTAM-BANANa" CROSS. 



The above combination was grown only in the selected pink 

 strain and all the ears were of a pale pink and usually solid, 

 that is, without white grains, but the shade of pink varied 

 greatly even upon the same ear. A specimen ear is shown at 

 10 in the plate. 



•Plates I-XXX were made from photographs by Mr. F. H. Dodge, and XXXI- 

 XXXIII by Prof. M. H. Blake, to whom many thanks are duc' for painstaking 

 skill. 



