EXPERIMENT STATION REPORT. 415 



-Aside from the work noted in the report referred to, by letter it is 

 learned that this division has recently begun an important piece of 

 work along the line of the production of new varieties of apples by 

 means of hybridization. 



New Jersey. — Some work is being done in the breeding of truck 



■crops, particularly beans, eggplants, tomatoes and sweet corn. 



Nothing is yet read}^ for distribution. A hybrid has been secured 



between two species of salsify, that shows great vigor and may prove 



less liable to the white mould than the old garden form. 



Neio Mexico. — " In the earlier part of the history of the Station an 

 attempt was made of originating varieties of wheat by crossing. In 

 1898 cross-pollination was performed with the ' Wolf ' and ' Yellow 

 Egg' plums." 



New York (Geneva). — " This Station has given more or less atten- 

 tion to plant improvement by crossing, etc., since 1883. About that 

 time Prof. Godd originated the ' Station ' pea, which is regularly 

 listed by some seedsmen, and the 'Station' tomato. Since 1893 

 the work with strawberries has been continued till the present. Only 

 one variety has been disseminated for trial, viz., the 'Hunn.' Par- 

 ticular study is given to the improvement of grapes and in fixing 

 •certain characters. This work is fundamental and preliminary to 

 any marked advance in the improvement of this fruit. Some atten- 

 tion is paid to apples and pears, also gooseberries and currants. At 

 the close of 1889 the inventory showed the following Station seedlings 

 under test : Apples, 81 ; pears, 39 ; apricots, 5 ; cherry, 1 ; peach, 

 16 ; plum, 42 ; grape, 636 ; currants, 53 ; gooseberries, 680 ; black 

 and dewberries, 182 ; raspberries, 958 ; strawberries, 429 ; total, 

 3,122. To this list were added, in 1900, apples, 65 ; pears, 35, and 

 something over 3,003 grapes. A few were discarded, but the present 

 number of Station seedlings under test is more than 6,000. Many 

 hundreds in past years have been discarded. 



" The one who, of all others, has been the leader in point of time 

 and amount of work in the breeding of corn is the late lamented Dr. 

 E. L. Sturtevant, who, as early as 1883, in the second report of the 

 New York (Geneva) Experiment Station, recorded much study of, 

 and tests made with, the crossing of corn. Each annual report for 

 several years contained details of the hybrid corns, with observations 

 upon the same. ' ' 



New York (Cornell). — In the horticultural department they have 

 made rather extensive studies, for many years, of plant-breeding, but 

 for the purpose of arriving at the principles which underlie the 



