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quently found that possessed a very tenacious clinging quality, but these 
bunches were the exception rather than the rule. By far the majority 
of the berries in this class revealed this clinging quality only in a very 
limited degree. Of the total number of fruit bearing vines, 415 were 
classed as very poor and 317 as poor. 
It is hoped that better clinging quality will be obtained in the hybrids 
of the Flowers vine. These will be studied with exceptional interest in 
this respect, for the fruit of this variety clings much better than that 
of the other.varieties (See Fig. 19). 
Promising New Seedlings. 
One of the most delightful events that a plant breeder looks forward 
to with a great deal of anticipated pleasure, is the appearance of promis¬ 
ing new seedlings. Whenever a lot of seeds are planted there will be 
more or less variation found among the resulting plants. The extent 
and the quality of this variation, depends in a large measure on the 
selection of the parent plants. Accordingly in our breeding work we 
have selected as far as possible the best material that is offered in the 
rotundifolia species. 
Fig. 19.—Cluster of variety Flowers, showing extreme of clinging 
quality (natural size). 
It is to be regretted that one cannot foretell, or choose male vines, 
that possess inherent factors for good quality of the fruit. If this were 
possible we might, by making the proper combinations, secure in a lot 
of seedlings a much increased number of good quality vines. However, 
since this forecast is almost impossible, we have chosen the best quality 
mother vines, and have used for male parents only those that possess 
the greatest number of visably good vine characters. Among our 729 
vines that fruited in 1913, several were noted that exhibited characters 
