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"Experiments with Foreign Cottons,'* and Bulletin 83, June, 1897, 

 lias for its title "Hybrids from American and Foreign Cottons." 

 " The combination of the Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium manti- 

 mum yields a cotton plant which produces fibre of the best grade in 

 : strength, maturity, twist, length, fineness and yield per acre. " * * * 



California. — " In answer, etc. , ^ * * for our work in the origina- 

 tion of new varieties by crossing, etc., we can only confess to have 

 'done nothing, nor have we published anything on the subject. Mr. 

 Burbank, Judge Logan and Mr. C. P. Taft, of Orange ; Mrs. Shep- 

 herd, of Ventura, and others, have undertaken much in this line, as 

 you know, and because of the activit}^ of private propagators we 

 have given very little attention to the subject." 



Connecticut. — Mr. J. B. Olcott, of Connecticut, was at one time 

 ■strongly advocating the improvement of lawns by a method of grass 

 cuttings, thus producing a uniform turf of the same strain of grass. 



Georgia. — "Some years ago we did a good deal of work in crossing 

 varieties of cotton." 



Illinois. — Bulletin No. 21 gives the results of Mr. McClure in the 

 • crossing of corn, and Bulletins Nos. 53 and 55 report the work of 

 Professor Hipkins in selection with reference to the chemical compo- 

 sition of corn. Considerable work has been done upon inbreeding of 

 •corn. Three generations of inbreeding results in almost sterility, the 

 •first generation showing a degree of unproductiveness that would 

 practically amount to the ruin of a crop. So pronounced is this result 

 of even the first generation from inbreeding that we are led to wonder 

 if this is not the practical cause of barren stalks, which in this country 

 amount ofttimes to 20 per cent, of the crop. 



The results of Mr. McClure' s work are briefly summarized as fol- 

 lows : "In 1889 sixteen crosses in corn were produced ; in 1890 one 

 hundred and fifty-eight." Among other things the results indicated 

 "that corn grown from crossing two distinct varieties will be larger 

 than the average of the kinds crossed, or when the parents are nearly 

 equal larger than either." 



Indiana. — For many years we have grown with much care a variety 

 of yellow dent corn, which is known as " Purdue yellow dent." 



loiva. — Bulletin 14, August, 1891, is upon "Breeding of the 

 Orchard and Garden Fruits," in which notes upon seedling crosses 

 of apples are recorded. Bulletin 22 (1893) contains a section upon 

 "Rosa Hybrids," which were of the Russian type of Rosa rugosa 

 :B.s the pistillate parent with "General Jacqeminot," "American 

 IBeauty, ' ' and other standard roses, the hope being a double hardy 



