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list includes similar occurrences noted at the New York Agricul- 
tural Experiment Station during the last three years: 
Maize—Seed of one kind sown often produces samples of 
other kinds of corn in the crop, and these varieties can usually be 
distinctly referred by name to varieties with which the original 
seed might have been crossed. Purposely hybridized seed has 
produced the original parentage without intermediate types, and 
seed exposed to hybridization during two years with many sorts 
of corn, has yielded ears of the types of corn with which cross- 
breeding or hybridization has been effected, without appearance 
of intermediate forms. 
Barley —April, 1884, one head of cross-bred awnless barley was 
received from Mr. Horsford, a seed-grower in Vermont. The 
yield of the twenty-six seed was four distinct sorts of barley; one 
beardless black, one beardless white, one bearded black and one 
bearded white. One peculiarity was, that the beardless forms 
could be referred to Hordeum trifurcatum, There were no inter- 
mediates in this crop. 
Peppers.—In 1882 eleven varieties of peppers were grown; in 
1883, nineteen varieties. The pepper plant is extremely variable. 
The fruit on different plants of the same variety often varies 
much in shape; on some the fruit is borne erect, on others pen- 
dant; certain plants of a variety often mature their fruit much 
earlier than do others. These facts, as well as direct observation, 
certify to the ready cross-fertilization between varieties. Yet 
despite this apparent cross-fertilization, varieties by selection are 
kept true to name, and almost all or perhaps all of the various 
“sporting” forms noted by us are found illustrated in Hortus 
Eystettensis, 1613, a fact which brings the pepper in line with our 
other illustrations. 
Tomato’—In 1882 the French upright tomato was crossed with 
1Some additional observations of a later date than those given in this paper are 
as follows 
Melom-—The Christiana melon seed used in 1885 was from two sources. The one 
Seed pure and the crop all on type; the other seed station-grown in 1883 and sub- 
jected to a possible cross-fertilization with other varieties; the produce from this 
Seed gave this year fruit mostly of pure Christiana type, but some plants yielded 
fruit of the early white Japan, long Persian and Hackensack types, and no interme- 
diates. These off-varieties were among the melon varieties of 1883, and by which 
there was a possibility of the Christiana being crossed through insect agency. 
Tomato,—In 1883 the French upright tomato was crossed by the Livingston’s 
favorite, and the crossed seed has been attempted to be grown in purity up to date, 
