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o. Row Stakes. Capital Letter H. _6_ , for example, shows the row filled with 



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plants that are a compound cross of "Crookneck" (5) squash 

 and "Scallop" (6). The large letter facilitates work in the field 

 and in making records. 



0. Plant in row. Italic Letter. For example, d ', the second plant (b) is 

 used to pollinate the fourth plant (d). This is used upon tie 

 labels, and the plants are lettered from the upper or east end of 

 the row, as for example, with tomatoes. 



7. Quality. A Scale of Points upon a "shipping tag." Plant 50 (Earliness l.j. 



Prolificness 35, Form 10). Product 50 (Quality 30, Appearance 

 20). This is used, for example, upon sweet corn, as a large tie 

 label (shipping tag) during the growing season, and ears are 

 saved for seed from the best plants thus recorded. 



8. Signal Stakes. These tall, white stakes are used for marking conspicuously 



any row or plant for special treatment, and are much taller than 

 the plants to be marked. 



Somewhat in repetition of the previous remarks the following ex- 

 planation of Plate XVI. is given: The largest variety stakes that 

 are used upon the plots are about two feet long and three inches 

 broad. In some instances the name of the variet}' only is written, in 

 black paint, with fine brush. After a variety has been upon the books 

 for some time its number may only be placed upon the stake, and when 

 it is in a cross the number representing the male is written over that 



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 for the mother plant. Thus in the picture the -39- stands for a row 



that bears cross-plants. When the cross is grown for a second crop 

 a Roman numeral is placed below the fraction representing the cross. 

 Thus in the third stake the plants thus marked are the third gener- 

 ation of 34 (whether beans, tomatoes, squashes, sweet corn or egg- 

 plants, as the crop decides) upon number 12. When one cross is bred 

 upon another cross the fact is recorded in the books and upon the 

 stakes by placing one fraction (the male) over the other with two 

 horizontal lines between. The number of horizontal lines indicates 

 the number of new combinations. 



If the double cross represented upon stake d was bred with a 

 variety, or another cross, the fact could ]ye quickly recorded by draw- 

 ing three horizontal lines l^etween the two sets of figure.?, and the 

 portion above the three lines would l)e the male. 



The same form of fractional record is employed in ticketing all 



