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seed packets. Fine mosquito netting has been found of great service 

 in drjdng seeds like those of eggplants, squashes, etc., that are easily 

 blown by the winds. At / is shown a packet of beans freshly shellgd 

 and drying, the wire-wood label indicating securely the cross, its 

 generation and the year. The date of saving the seed is usually added 

 to the label. For more permanent use the small seeds are placed in 

 cork-stopper vials (g and h), with paster lal^els placed close to the 

 cork, that as much of the seed as possible may be in sight. The sweet 

 corn for special study is kept upon the ear by dipping the whole ear 

 in melted paraffine to keep the grain from shelling. An ear thus 

 preserved since 1903 is shown at i. Tomato seeds, fortunately, are 

 surrounded with sufficient adhesive pulp so that they can be dried 

 upon sheets of paper, to which they adhere, and may be marked as 

 shown at ;', which represents a sheet ready to be placed in a gum- 

 flap packet shown below it (l) and marked for popcorn. The tomato 

 seeds sheet shows that it is from the third generation of "Magnus- 

 Ponderosa" (Magnerosa), and came from pollinating plant a with 

 plant d, upon July 13th, and the seed was harvested August 26th. A 

 mailing packet is shown near m and marked for "Station Bush" lima 

 beans. 



Other aids in the field work are large tickets (n), borne by the 

 plants upon which from time to time notes are made to aid in selecting 

 for earliness, productiveness, form of plant, these making up half of 

 the hundred points in the "scale of points" for superior plants. An 

 ordinary bag, with its wire-wood label marked to indicate a pollina- 

 tion, is shown at o. A row of beans sometimes is quite conspicuous 

 because of these bags during the breeding season. After fertilization 

 is secured the bag is torn open, but left upon the plant as a conspicu- 

 ous mark. 



INK PRINTS OF VEGETABLE FRUITS.. 



The serious difficulty in the way of making satisfactory records of 

 the interior structure of soft fruits, like those of the tomato, has in 

 part been overcome by resorting to ink prints. These prints are 

 secured by cutting the fruit when full size, but not fully mature, and 

 inldng the cut surface after it has dried a little, and pressing the cut 

 surface upon an ink pad of large size and apphing the inked surface 

 to white paper. It is quite essential to have a long knife with a broad 

 blade and keen edge, that the surface may be very smooth and as nearly 



