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Pollination of Fruits. 



[May 



Bramley, Cox's Pomona, Duchess Favourite, Duke of York, 

 Foster's Seedling, Gladstone, Hamling's Seedling, Hector 

 Macdonald, High Canons, Hoary Morning, Hormead's Pear- 

 main, Hunt's Early, King's Acre Pippin, Lady Henniker, Mere 

 de Menage, May Queen, Norfolk Beauty, Kome Beauty,. 

 Sandringham, Sanspariel, Seaton House, Striped Beaufin, 

 Sturmer Pippin, The Queen (Saltmarsh's), Wagener, Waltham. 

 Abbey, Wealthy, Wellington. 



In the trials at Wisley and Merton the following varieties 

 were found somewhat self-f ruitful : — Bramley's Seedling, 

 Crimson Bramley, Allington, Sturmer, and Annie Elizabeth; 

 in the case of Cox's Orange Pippin only four fruits matured in 

 61 trials, which shows that this variety is very rarely self-fertile. 



Plum Trials (1911-20). 



The following showed themselves self -fruitful : — 



SELF-FRUITFUL 

 PLUMS. 



Left. 



Own 

 Pollen. 



Foreign 

 Pollen. 



Number of 

 Bags. 



Number of 

 Fruits Set. 



Number of 

 Fruits Matured. | 



Number of 

 Bags. 



Number of 

 Fruits Set. 



Number of 

 Fruits Matured. 



(4 * 



Number of 

 Fruirs Set. 



Number of 

 Fruits Matured. 



Pershore Yellow Egg : 



(Perfectly 





















self-fertile) 









3 



36 



15 



1 



13 



4 



Pershore Purple Egg : 



(Perfectly 





















self-fertile) 



10 



47 



24 



5 



36 



15 



I 



26 



11 



Victoria 





8 



21 



18 



3 



14 



7 





15 



12 



Czar ... 





9 



46 



24 



8 



42 



11 



5 



37 





Dcnniston's Superb ... 





6 



19 





7 



37 



15 



2 



9 



*i 



Monarch 





3 



6 



t 



3 



16 



4 



3 



13 



1 



Other varieties that showed themselves more or less 

 self-fruitful were: — Damson (?Farleigh), Bradley's King of 

 Damsons, Bullace (yellow with orange streaks) , Bittern, 

 Kivers' Early Prolific. At Merton the following additional 

 plums were found self-fertile: — Early Transparent, Early 

 Mirabelle, Golden Transparent, Gisborne (each very self- 

 fertile), Eeine Claude Violette, Keine Claude de Bavay, 

 Oullins Golden Gage, Belle de Louvain, Prince Englebert, 

 Giant Prune, Yellow Magnum Bonum, Myrobalan, Ked and 

 Belgian Purple; the following were classified as partly self- 

 fertile : — Early Orleans, Early Favourite, and Cox's Emperor. 

 Rivers' Early Prolific, which, with its own pollen, matured only 

 one fruit to about 100 flowers. 



