450 NEW JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL 



Yellow" tomato has been grown another year and its type is so 

 well fixed that now seed of this yellow upright or "dwarf" variety 

 is ready for distribution. 



Crosses among the eggplants have been grown for another year 

 and with several new commercial varieties further breeding has 

 been carried on. 



Last year crosses were obtained between certain bush squashes. 

 These have been grown the present season and some progress has 

 doubtless been made in fixing the characters of these crosses. 

 JMany other combinations have been made this year. Among 

 others, there is a possible hope of one between the bush and the 

 winter sorts. 



The work with the fringed Drummond phlox has been confined 

 to the selection of a white variety of great beauty which in time 

 it is hoped will become fixed. 



Bulletin No. 170, "Experiments in Crossing Sweet Corn", of 

 twenty-four pages and four page-plates, was published February 



5. 1904- 



Mr. ]. A. Kelsey. after several years of faithful service, and 

 owing to severe illness, was obliged to resign his position as 

 assistant on April ist of the present year. Mr. E. J. Owen, a 

 graduate of Rutgers College was appointed assistant in horticul- 

 ture in March, and shortly after Mr. J- K- Shaw, of the Univer- 

 sity of Vermont, was added as assistant in breeding. Sickness on 

 the part of the writer has continued and prevented him from 

 giving the full amount of attention to the Department. 



The Experiment Area. 



Upon the next page is given the plan of the Experiment Area 

 which consists of two acres divided into seven series with four 

 plots to each series. Paths four feet wide separate the series, 

 while each series is again divided by two-foot paths running 

 lengthwise of the Area thus making twenty-eight plots each 33 by 

 66 feet and containing one-twentieth of an acre. 



The soil is fairly uniform in quality throughout, it being a mix- 

 ture of clay and gravel and at the outset was not of the best for 

 garden purposes. Its texture has, however, been much improved 

 by the annual application of stable manure at the rate of twenty 

 tons per acre for the past ten years. 



