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The Bulletin 
By glancing at the record of the first lot, Scuppernong X Hope, the 
seeds of which were collected in 1911, we learn that of the 57 surviving 
vines, all are hermaphrodite in character and none are staminate. 
In the second lot, where Scuppernong was again crossed with Hope, 
and seeds gathered in 1912, we see a repetition of the results that were 
obtained in the first lot, but in this case a much larger number of vines 
was involved. In the third, fourth, and fifth lots, in which Thomas, 
James, and Blowers were used to make similar crosses, the final results 
are practically the same. If we take the total of the numbers that were 
involved, we find that out of 1,424 vines, 1,379 produced hermaphrodite 
: 
Thosas X fiope 
Fig. 9.—Two typical hermaphrodite flower clusters 
with reflexed stamens. Fi generation seedling vine 
of Thomas X Hope (three-year-old vine). Natural 
size. 
flowers, not one produced staminate flowers, and 45 were too weak to 
produce any flowers at all. These last mentioned vines unquestionably 
will also bear hermaphrodite flowers when mature. 
We also learn (2) that these seedling hermaphrodite vines are of two 
kinds (Plate 1, Bigs. 3-6), those which produce flowers with upright 
stamens and those which produce flowers with reflexed stamens. The 
ratio between these two floral types is quite uniform, and appears to be 
about equally divided. By adding the total numbers, we find that the 
upright stamen type is to the reflexed stamen type as 663 :716, or a ratio 
of 1:1.07. 
