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longer believe size is a deterrent to flavour. They are both very com- 

 plex characters, so the chances of uniting them are small. Added to this, 

 they are not the only characters the fruit grower wants when he sends 

 his baskets by train etc. to market. 



Size of Fruit. Till this year I have never had a family producing 

 large fruit as the rule. From the family 211 (chinevsis x chiloensis) x 

 garden strain I obtained fruit displacing 8, 10, 10, 11, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12-5, 

 13, 13-5, 14, 15, 16, 16-5, 17, 18, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, and 28 c.c. of water. 

 The fruit measured was in no case the largest borne by any plant. The 

 largest fruit measured was slightly slug-eaten and displaced 32 c.c. of 

 water. Other families of garden varieties, growing alongside this, gave 

 fruit of 18 to 22 c.c. as the largest, and small fruits of 5 to 8 were very 

 frequent. This 211 family chiefly consists of hard-growing, multi-fruit- 

 stemmed and very heavy cropping plants, but the fruit has next to no 

 flavour, and its shape may be any form of carpet bag, clenched fist, 

 cock's comb or globe, with seeds yellow or dark crimson to nearly black. 



The cross {chinensis x Daltoniana) has only given me three seeds ; 

 but it is worth noting that the flowers are borne in trusses and not 

 singly as in Daltoniana, following in this the cross (Daltoniana x vesca). 



The cross {chinensis x elatior) has not given me any seed up to now, 

 but I have reason to believe it may do so in the future. The flowers 

 are described below. 



Runners. There seems to be a morphological resemblance between 

 runners and flower stems. Last autumn I had several cases of runners 

 flowering before they made foliage or rooted ; runners from these have 

 behaved normally. This summer a plant from the chinensis x elatior 

 cross produced flowers with very long stems, and from the flower trusses 

 runners grew (Fig. 1). This cross in 1915 gave one plant which con- 

 tinued from December to March or April to send out fresh trusses 

 from the trusses which had flowered. (I have no photograph of this 

 unfortunately.) 



Sex. Chinensis $ x Daltoniana. Out of 22 well-established plants 

 7 $ . 7 </ or 5 and 8 blind plants. Most of the plants that flowered had 

 done so the previous year, but not one of the blind plants had. 



Chinensis % x elatior ^^ . Out of 25 plants which had been three 

 summers in the ground only nine have flowered. Fig. 2 shows five types 

 of flowers from five plants. Following my rule of classifying plants as 

 female or males and hermaphrodites I count these 1 female and 8 male 

 or hermaphrodite. The pollen is good in the latter class. 



