454 NEW JEESF.Y AGRICULTUEAL COLLEGE 



There were four plants of the cross in its second generation, all of 

 which were large and bore fruits in abundance of a size and shape 

 quite intermediate between the two parents, excepting that they were 

 all red. The records show that many of the fruits, because of the 

 good depth, were extra fine in shape and did not have much of the 

 irregularity so objectionable in the "Ponderosa."' The expression 

 "very fine, smooth" was used in connection with many of the fruits. 

 One plant had an oblong fruit that possessed a remarkably fleshy 

 interior. In the cross of the "Ponderosa" upon the above cross four 

 of the five plants produced red fruits and one "pink," the latter being 

 quite irregular and closely resembled the "Ponderosa." The whole 

 row was very prolific. In the reciprocal of the last — that is, the 

 original cross upon the "Ponderosa" — the plants were of large size,, 

 and three bore red and two "pink" fruits, all of which were large and 

 somewhat irregular and flattened. In the three-quarter "Marvel" 

 — that is, this parent upon the original cross — the six large plants all 

 produced fruits that were somewhat of a blend of the red and "pink'* 

 of the two parents. The fruits are very large and nearly always 

 smooth. The record shows that forty-six ripe, sound fruits were 

 picked from the six plants at one time, and they filled to the brim a 

 large-sized peach basket. These large fruits are with many seed 

 cavities, some of them breaking the central core and giving a most 

 desirable center of evenly-colored flesh. The reciprocal of this — that 

 is, the original cross upon the "Marvel" — had four red and one pink- 

 fruited plants. They were practically the same as the above in all 

 desirable qualities. A slice-view of a fruit is shown at 8, in Plate V. 



The " Magnns-Ponderosa " Family. 



In the "Magnus" we have one of the most valuable of the coarse- 

 leaved, standard tomatoes which was introduced by Livingston, and 

 it has become quite popular for its fine, evenly-maturing, medium- 

 sized, apple-shaped pink fruits. The primary cross for this family was 

 made some years ago, and the third generation was grown in consid- 

 erable numbers in the Gardens the past season. Plate VI., of the 

 report for 1904, shows the foliage and fruit of this cross in connection 

 with those of both parents. There are two t^'pes of plants in the 

 cross of coarse and fine-leaved sorts, and the block of thirty plants 

 from the same fruit showed seven of the coarse and twenty-three of 



