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Agricultural Experiment Station 
To obtain this reciprocal 
cross is apparently a much 
greater task than to obtain the 
original cross where Herbe- 
mont is used as the female 
parent. 
Vit is Vinifera X Vitis 
Rot undifolia 
In 1916 three flower clusters 
on an imperfect hermaphroditic 
Vinifera vine, Malaga Seed¬ 
ling Ho. 1, were prepared, 
covered and later cross-pollin¬ 
ated with pollen from the Ro- 
tundifolia vine 1-1. Four sim¬ 
ilar flower clusters were cross- 
pollinated with pollen from 
G-52. In the fall 16 seeds were 
obtained from the cross with 
1-1 and 15 seeds from the cross 
with G-52. All the seeds grew 
in 1917 and 26 were set in the 
nursery for study. 
During this same season 
(1916) Malaga Seedling Ho. 1, 
as well as Malaga Seedling Ho. 
3 which will be found men¬ 
tioned later, have been thor¬ 
oughly tested for any signs of 
self-fertility, and both vines 
have proven to be practically 
incapable of producing seed by 
themselves. Knowledge of this 
sort is of tremendous impor¬ 
tance for the breeder because 
much labor, time and material 
can be saved by circumventing 
the process of emasculating the 
flowers. The results obtained 
with Malaga Seedling Ho. 3 in 
1917 amply justify this con¬ 
tention. 
In 1917 this seedling was 
cross-pollinated with pollen 
A Vinifera-Rotundifolia seedling vine two 
years of age with eight of its flower 
clusters bagged for a test in self-fertil¬ 
ity. Reduced. 
