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are three samples from each hlock of the second generation. 

 It is seen that the three white ears are ah quite distinct, the one 

 at 4 being the most Hke the male grandparent but showing no 

 dent in the grains ; the ear at 5 is quite Hke the grandmother in 

 its shape and that of the grain. The ear at G reseml)les both 

 grandparents, that is, is hke the cross at 2. 



In the second set of thr^e,x the lemon yellow color prevails 

 with a considerable wdiite, showing that the mother seed repre- 

 sented "hybrids." One of the three ears (7) shows very strong- 

 ly the dent characteristic of the grandfather and the same is true 

 of the shape of the ear although very much reduced in size. The 

 next (8) is a long slender ear, quite out of proportion to either 

 grandparents. It also shows a slight tendency towards the dent 

 type of the grain, while the third ear (9) has the same form 

 and size as the first but the grains are of the pop type. 



The third group is chiefly with orange grains w^ith an occasion- 

 al kernel of lemon yellow. The first ear is broad at the butt 

 like the grandfather, but the ear tapers into a tip that is more 

 suggestive of the grandmother ; all in all, this with its slightly 

 dented grains is more like the field parent than the other two ; 

 and the third one (12), a solid orange, quite suggests a much 

 broadened dent pop ear. The middle one (11) naturally finds 

 its place between the other two — a homely spiral-rowed ear with 

 nine per cent, of the grains lemon yellow. 



An unexpected occurrence was that of fi\'e fully wrinkled or 

 sweet grains upon the first ear in the lemon yellow set (7), the 

 one in which the field dent parentage was most strongly manifest, 

 and there was no similar instance elsewhere in the whole crop. 

 The mother grain may have carried the sweet blood as a reces- 

 sive character and this would, under normal conditions, have 

 given 25 per cent, of sweet grains but as all surrounding plants 

 were without this character, the number of wrinkled grains was 

 greatly reduced. 



The crop, while a most indifferent one, indicates that one may 

 be able to select the pure colored grains from the "hybrids," the 

 orange in this case being the former and the lemon kernels the 

 latter. 



Experiments with Eggplants. 



Series I with the exception of two small blocks of sweet corn 

 was devoted entirely to eggplants (533 plants) of which a fair 

 set of the leading commercial sorts (14 kinds) was grown in a 

 portion of Plot i ; but the greater part of the fifth of an acre was 



