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fact that the plants are smaller and may be grown closer together. 

 Another fact is the eariiness of the "Henderson," for four-fifths of 

 the pods were mature, while less than one-fourth were ripe in the lot 

 of "Burpee" plants. The average was six pods to a plant. 



With the crossed plants, while the yield was 27 pods per plant, 

 the matured pods made up five-sixths of the crop and the empty pods 

 one-thirty-second of them all. In short, while the productiveness is 

 more than four times that of the parents, the eariiness is ahead of 

 the " Henderson." 



The relative size of the beans is well shown in the engraving 

 (Plate I.), and the cross is seen to be nearer the "Burpee" than 

 the "Henderson." In quality the same is true, and, while not as 

 " rich " as the " Burpee," it is nearer to it in this important quality 

 than the "Henderson." 



The following eight plants were pole beans : 



No. of Ripe Greeu Green, 



8 381 564 370 1,315 



The two from the parent plant No. 20 are remarkable in their very 

 large yield, one of them giving 404 pods and the other 292. Both 

 are valuable stock for further growth, as these and all the other six 

 plants are, of course, not like the parents, and become the starting 

 points for new lines of breeding possible for pole limas. 



EXPERIMENTS IN CROSSING TOMATOES. 



Tomatoes were given much attention and space in the Experiment 

 Area. From the large number of lots of seed saved from crossed 

 plants of the previous season the following were chosen from red- 

 fruited plants: numbers 6, 7, 17, 25, 32, 33, 52, 62, 84, 92, 97, 104, 

 144, 150, 168, 176, 178, 182, and from yellow-fruited plants num- 

 bers 98, 112, 113, 122, 125 and 126. The performances of these 

 parent plants are given in full upon pages 431 to 439 of the report 

 for 1900. 



The whole of Series I. was devoted to the seedlings of these crosses 

 and Plots I., 11. and III. received the above numbers 6 to 182 and 



