EXPERIMENT STATION KEPORT. 451 



The number of plants on each type conforms somewhat closely to 

 Mendel's law, if it is assumed that standard form of plant and fine- 

 leaved foliage are the dominant characteristics and the dwarf plants 

 and coarse leaves are the recessives. The number of plants is, how- 

 ever, all too small to more than arrive at a suggestion from this single 

 insfancc. 



In the number of marketable fruits i^er plant it is seen that the 

 standard types outnumber those produced, by the dwarfs. This does 

 not decide that the latter are inferior but smaller in yield, as they 

 are also much smaller in size. Double the numl>er of dwarfs can be 

 grown upon a given area, and even then the ground does not become 

 a tangle of ^dnes, as in case of the standards. The fine-leaved dwarfs, 

 set twice as many to a given area, might give a much better return 

 than when the standard, fine-leaved form is grown. The dwarf, coarse- 

 leaved form is handsome, and the plants keep the upright position 

 until the fruit is uearing maturity, when winds and rains cause them 

 to bend bodily to one side. 



During a heavy picking the fruits of each of the four types were 

 kept separate and as a result some variation in size was noted, those 

 of the standard, fine-leaved averaging the largest and the dwarf, 

 coarse-leaved the smallest. 



During a period when almost daily rains prevailed for a fortnight, 

 the decay seemed to be almost equally distributed among the four 

 types. 



As was expected, the fruits were of the pink color, thus resembling 

 that of both parents. There was one evident exception, in which the 

 color was a distinct red, a fact suggesting that a seed had been fer^ 

 tilized with foreign pollen. 



The fruits are quite uniformly larger than the "Champion" and 

 close to the somewhat angled form of the •']\Iagnus." In other words, 

 out of this cross, by selection, four tyix-s of plant and foliage may 

 be expected, all Avith practically the same form of fruit, but differing 

 materially in stem and foliage. The coarse-leaved standards are the 

 tallest plants, while the coarse-leaved dwarfs are the smallest. The 

 greatest range in size is met with in the fine-leaved plants. 



There was one plant that, while ranked with the fine-leaved standard 

 type, was quite unlike any other in its foliage. The leaves showed 

 a strong tendency to produce long, slender expansions, that were as 

 far from the ordinary tomato foliage upon one side as the coarse- 



