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ing dark red double flowers. The plants coming directly from 

 the seeds thus secured were unusually attractive in all parts and 

 particularly so in the pure brilliant red of the blooms borne in 

 large spherical clusters. Nineteen plants of the second gene- 

 ration were grown the past season by themselves and showed 

 many marked differences in size of plant, zonal markings of 

 foliage, etc. No double blooms appeared and in colors the 

 flowers were grouped as follows : pink, 7 ; red, 7 ; and pink and 

 red, 5. The pinks varied as to intensity of color and there were 

 at least two shades of red, one similar to the blend (scarlet) and 

 the other darker (crimson) but no flowers were exactly like 

 either parent. 



A circle in the lawn was set with cuttings from the first gene- 

 ration plants and tiiese were all alike and proved uniform in 

 bloom and very attractive in the large size of the scarlet clusters. 

 To this meritorious ornamental plant, the name of "Rutgers" 

 is given because of its bearing the color of the College upon 

 whose grounds it was originated. 



Experiments in Limitation of Fruit Bearing. 



During the season some experiments have been made in limit- 

 ing the number of fruits borne by [i plant by removing all or 

 nearly all the blossoms as they api)car. 



TOMATOES. 



A block of sixteen plants of the "Magnerosa" was selected 

 where check plants of the same lot grew side by side. All were 

 grown with the single stake method that they might be held 

 from the ground and the more easily studied. Of this rectangle 

 of plants, alternate ones had all the flowers removed and the 

 other eight were limited to one fruit. In some of the latter in- 

 stances after the plants had matured the single fruit, they were 

 [permitted to bloom and to form fruit without further limitation. 



Shortly after the fruits began Jo form upon the untreated 

 plants, it was noted that these were smaller than those kept free 

 of fruits or limited to one — which, by the way, is not far dif- 

 ferent with this kind of crop from no fruit at all. 



From the limitation plants, the number of flower clusters re- 

 moved was very large and indirectly this shows that the growth 

 of the plant to produce so many new inflorescences was far in 

 excess of normal plants that had the production of flowers 

 greatly checked by the presence upon the plants of a full load of 

 forming fruit. 



