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The "Dwarf Stoiio-Extra Early Tree" cross had twenty phints, of 

 which fourteen were standard and six dwarfs and all red-fruited, with 

 the exception of one yellow. The tomatoes were uniformly large, 

 smooth and usually with a long axis, but not produced in abundance. 

 Two showed the "Mosaic" foliage and a mottling of the fruit. 



In the "Crimson Cushion-Sumatra Fig" cross the type and color 

 of fruit differed in the parents. The fifteen plants gave twelve red 

 and two yellow, with a remarkable range of variation in the size of 

 the fruits. Thus in the simple cross of four plants there were two 

 with medium-sized, flat, angular fruits and two of a large plum type 

 and a strong indication of yellow. When the large, red-fruited parent 

 was bred upon the above cross one plant produced large, flat-ribbed 

 tomatoes, one large, loiig "plums" and the others were intermediate. 

 Upon the other hand, when the "Fig" was three-quarters, the six 

 plants — three red and three yellow-fruited — produced "plums," but 

 varying much in length. The "Cushion" fruit showed somewhat in 

 only one of the plants. 



Among the double crosses it is noted that when the "Ignotum- 

 Red Plum" was bred upon the "Magnus-Ponderosa" the five plants 

 were all standard, fine-leaved, and four with red and one with pink 

 fruits. The large vines were enormously productive of large plum 

 fruits. The "Red Plum" seemed to be able, in this combination, to 

 control the size quite fully. 



A double cross between "Magnus-Ponderosa"' upon "Currant-Stone" 

 gave plants all showing the "Currant" foliage strono-ly present, that 

 bore abundant red "cherry" fruits, varial)le in size and undesirable 

 save for pickling. 



The "Currant-Stone" was bred upon "Earliana-Fortune," and there 

 resulted extremely "viney" plants that bore a large, red "plum" fruit. 

 Practically the same result was obtained with "Ignotum-Red Plum" 

 upon "Earliana-Fortune." The two double crosses were easily dis- 

 tinguished in the foliage. A single small-fruited sort is able to show 

 a controlling power over three of the large-fruited sorts, the size of 

 which has been acquired by selection, etc. 



One plant of the three grown of the doulile cross of "Magnus-Pon- 

 derosa" upon "Dwarf Stone-Extra Early Tree" produced remarkably 

 fine red, smooth, apple-shaped fruits, from which there is hojio of 

 developing a tomato with exceptionally long axis, combined with good 

 size. 



