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very interesting. Again I quote from his pa- 

 per : " The apples resulting from some of the 

 experiments were collected and studied, and 

 the results were found to be parallel with those 

 obtained in the experiments with pears, the 

 crosses being larger, more highly colored, and 



of apples not bagged from the same tree, and 

 the self- fertilized fruits corresponded with the 

 under-sized, poorly colored specimens from 

 the same trees." The italics are my own, for 

 I wished to call attention to the inferior qual- 

 ity of apples produced by self-pollination, ren- 



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better supplied with seed. For example, i/te 

 hand-crossed Baldwin apples were highly col- 

 ored, well matured, and contained abtmdant 

 seeds, while the self-fertilized were only slight- 

 ly colored, ivere but one-fourth to two-thirds 

 the regular size, atid seedless. The crosses 

 were, in other words, like the better specimens 



dering them of little value except for cider or 

 swine. 



Fig. 4 of my illustrations shows a Baldwin 

 apple crossed by pollen of the yellow Bellflow- 

 er, while No. 5 shows a large specimen of 

 Baldwin self-crossed, and No. 6 a small speci- 

 men of the same. The effects of cross- fertili- 



