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Tlie numlx>r of plants in each row was so small that it is not safe 

 to draw an}' conclusions as to the characteristics of reciprocals, but so 

 far as this famil}' is concerned there does not seem to be any difference 

 which is the male and which is the female parent of a second cross 

 when one of the units in the cross is the primary cross of the two 

 bloods that are mingled. In other words, so far as the present test 

 goes, there does not seem to be any difference whether '"Magnus" is 

 used as a male or a female to be bred to the cross of that variety upon 

 "Ponderosa." A study of the members of this "family" shows that 

 when "Magnus" represented three-quarters it was able to obscure the 

 '"Ponderosa" type of fruit quite extensively, and when the "Ponderosa" 

 was three-quarters it in turn was dominant. There were enough ex- 

 ceptions, however, among the small number of plants to lead to the 

 opinion that strong outcropping of the quarter-blood may be expected 

 in such dotible crosses. Slice-views of fruits are given at 10 and 11, of 

 Plate Y. 



The "Mikado-Princess" Family. 



In this combination the two parents are of the coarse-leaved, 

 standard type, the "Mikado" having green foliage and the "Princess" 

 of a yellow color. The fruits are pink in both varieties. The primary 

 cross was represented by five plants, all coarse-leaved, which produced 

 large, fine, smooth fruits, with some russet upon the shoulder. In 

 the cross of the male parent upon the cross 89 (89x109) the five 

 plants were all coarse-leaved, but not satisfactorily prolific. The 

 reciprocal of this, namely (89x109) 89, gave five plants practically 

 the same as the last. Among the five plants of the female upon the 

 cross 109 (89x109), three were coarse and two fine-leaved. Two of 

 them were with yellow foliage and none were productive. The re- 

 ciprocal of this last, namely (89x109) 109, gave five coarse-leaved 

 plants, two of which had yellow foliage, and none were satisfactory 

 in yield. It is seen that this cross among the coarse-leaved sorts did 

 not produce plants with abundant fruit. The tomatoes produced by 

 the parents and offspring in this "family," while of superior form, 

 color and firmness of flesh, do not apparently warrant consideration, 

 except by those who wish to have them as interesting types quite differ- 

 ent from the quick-growing, prolific sorts. 



It is also noted that the four yellow plants out of the twenty-five 

 in the "family" were all among the two reciprocals where the yellow 



