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shoots being covered with bags and hand pollinated as 

 was done at first. 



Description of Fi Generation Stalks 

 After the total growth had been made, data were re- 

 corded as to the height and diameter of stalks, length, 

 width, and number of leaves, while the dates of tasseling 

 and silking had been obtained previously. 



Fig. 1 shows picture of entire stalks after harvesting. 











TABLE 



I 





- INCI 



p F, G 





[ON s- 





















fLeaes 



























11 





33* 

 36| 



36| 



31| 



31 





H 12 26 



■1 1 \l\ S 



At maturity, the entire plants were removed from the 

 ground in such a way as to retain as many of the roots 

 as possible. The soil was removed and a photograph 

 was taken of the roots (Fig. 2) to especially emphasize 

 the fact that each stalk was separate and distinct from 

 the other and could not be classed as a tiller from the 

 other stalk, although both were united at the radicle. 



Description of F 1 Generation Kernels 

 Fig. ,3 is a photograph of the four ears produced. 

 All of them show Mendelian splitting. The number and 

 ratio of yellow and white kernels will be given in Table 

 II. None of the kernels possessed two embryos like their 

 parents. 



