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(b) Mosaic Inheritance. Whether a form of variegation of 

 pie-bald color manifests itself in any of the hj'brids. 

 • (c) Alternative Inheritance. Where one character of a com- 

 plementary pair is inherited to the apparent exclusion of the 

 other. 



Fi GENERATION. 



During the season 1909, 80 seeds of the cross SS x 149* were 

 sown, and in the offspring several of the melons resembled the 



Fig. 4. Parents and offspring in melon cross. 149, Delices de la table, a 

 French cantaloupe with yellow or straw colored skin, deep ribbing, and no 

 netting; and Sutton's Superlative, an English muskmelon with a dark green 

 skin, very close netting, no ribbing and perfectly round in shape. The 

 melon in the center is a perfect combination of the characters of the parent. 

 It possesses the color of 149, the netting of Sutton's Superlative, and is 

 intermediate in ribbing, size and shape. 



female, while others resembled the male parent, the majority, 

 however, being hybrid in character. One melon possessed the 

 combined characteristics of both parents, namely, in netting it 

 resembled the female, while the color of skin resembled the 

 male. Modified ribbing was manifest and in form of fruit it 

 resembled the female; the seeds were decidedly intermediate 

 and in flavor the melon was a decided blend; the cavity, how- 



*For convenience the male parent, Delices de la table, is referred to in this 

 bulletin as No. 149, the serial number in the stock book, while the female pa- 

 rent, Sutton's Superlative, is referred to as SS. 



