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seed, etc., from other pole limas — that is, while there was a reversion, 

 it may be said, in the tendency to twine, the variety is not of either 

 sort of ancestral type; in fact, no two of the pole plants are alike. 

 One wonders what may come from the seed in coming years. 



Tomatoes. — Crosses have been made between the small, upright, 

 red-fruited "'Dwarf Champion" and the large, spreading, yellow- 

 fruited "Golden Sunrise" tomato. During the first season, out of 

 183 seedlings, all except 10 came true to the mother parent, and 

 while it was evident that the plants were crosses, there were but few 

 which showed remarkable peculiarities. Two were very large and 

 produced a limited number of fruits, with comparatively few seeds. 

 These seeds, when germinated, showed from the first a strange lot of 

 seedlings, no two of them being alike; and most peculiar of all was 

 the fact that many were monstrous in form, being without one coty- 

 ledon or the pumule; and such failed to live. With 40 seedlings 

 from one of the original "Giants," a plot of ground was set, and the 

 season's record of these plants shows a wide variation. Some were 

 "potato-leaved," while others had foliage of a slender type; some of 

 the plants grew entirely upright, with a very stiff stem, while others 

 sprawled at length upon the ground; some produced red fruits of 

 large size and others with the size of cherries, while one was 

 plum-shape. The yellow-fruited plants were nearly as numerous and 

 variable. 



Eggplants. — Last year a cross was effected between two varieties 

 of eggplant, namely, the "Long Purple" and the "New York Improved 

 Spineless." These were reciprocal, the combination being to improve 

 the quality of the "F. Y. Improved" by a union with one of small size 

 and high quality. During this season a large number of the crosses- 

 have been raised, and the most noticeable feature of them is their 

 nearly uniform character, whether the cross was made in one direc- 

 tion or its opposite. In passing, it may be also stated that the vigor 

 of the plants was remarkable, the yield large, of fruit of high qualit}^, 

 and a handsome, long, pear shape, with the seeds all well down toward 

 the blossom end. So satisfactory has this cross been the first season 

 that all growers who have seen the plants desire some of the seed. It 

 has been withheld upon the ground of a doubt as to its fixedness. It 

 is not unlikely that another year will show many deviations, so that 

 selecting will be required to establish the cross even more than one 

 variety should they be desired. 



Salisfy. — All of the above instances of plant breeding have been. 



