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and Early"' a better fruit is obtained than in either parent. The 

 ^'Earliana" loses somewhat in size, but its shape is improved and there 

 is a better ripening at the "shoulder," with less inclination to crack. 



The ''Magnus-Crimson Cushion" crosses are full of promise, ])e- 

 cause of the large, vigorous vines and exceptionally fine fruits. The 

 two parents do not blend as thoroughly as in many instances, and two 

 types in both character of leaf and also of fruit are apparent — that is, 

 there are the coarse and fine-leaved and the red and the pink sorts, 

 besides the tendency of the "apple" shape of the "Magnus" and the 

 more flattened form of the "Cushion" to be in evidence. It is this 

 comljination that shows a strong tendency to a marked reduction in 

 the number of seeds, and in the greenhouse plants the fruits were 

 often seedless. Slice-view of a fruit is shown at 7, in Plate V. 



The "Arcadia-Cumberland-" combinations gave prolific plants with 

 remarkably bright red fruits of desirable size and shape. 



In the "Arcadia-Earliana" crosses the most prominent feature was 

 the earliness, with tlie fruits quite flat and smooth. The plants quickly 

 became prostrate and the crop was gone before neighboring crosses 

 were in full fruitage. Somewhat opposite to this resulted from the 

 '^Stone-Earliana" combination, but here there were two types among 

 the crosses, the one favoring the "Stone," with fine, apple-shaped 

 fruits with a long season, and the other flat-grooved with an early 

 short season, like the "Earliana." 



The "Stone-Favorite" crosses gave a good showing of fine, smooth 

 fruits, thirteen plants bearing red and six pink tomatoes. Aside from 

 these two types in color there were other indications, as variable size 

 of plant and fruit, that much selection Avill be necessary to fix the 

 desirable qualities. Slice-view of a fruit is shown at 2, in Plate V. 



The "Honor Bright-Fortune" j^lants were set late, but they gave a 

 large yield of remarkably fine, smooth fruits that were with thick, firm 

 walls, and no doubt of high shipping and keeping qualities. The 

 double cross with three-fourths of the "'Honor Bright" "blood" 

 showed four of the five plants with yellow foliage, with fruit that 

 passed through the "white" conditions on the way to the mature red. 

 Similar results were obtained in the "Honor Bright-Freedom" com- 

 bination, where three out of ten of the thirteen plants were with yellow 

 foliage and the white, immature fruit. There is a strong objection to 

 the foliage, being of a color to suggest that some disease is sapping 

 the life of the plant. Such plants in these crosses, however, gave a 



