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Fig. 24. A hybrid seedling (in a 
three-inch flower pot) of Oberlin vine 
when crossed with pollen from Malaga. 
The leaves of this vine are more like 
Rotundifolia than are those of the pre¬ 
ceding. This vine is beginning the 
second year of its existence. Reduced. 
do they shatter readily. The 
berries from this vine when 
fully ripe are black with a 
good coat of blue bloom, ob¬ 
long in shape, skin thin hut 
tough; flesh firm like in Vini- 
fera; flavor sweet and vinous. 
Seeds: One to each berry. 
6.3 mm. long, 4.1 mm. wide, 
2.9 mm. deep; beak obtuse. 
The color of the seed is dark 
chestnut brown with a light 
red beak and ventral depres¬ 
sions, glossy surface with min¬ 
ute, raised, jlight-colored 
specks; chalaza rather above 
the middle, sunken in both 
of the seeds, ovate to oblong 
in shape; suture deep and 
broad from chalaza over the 
top of the seed, not so deep 
and not so broad from the 
beak to the chalaza, slightly 
wrinkled around the chalaza; 
raphe very fine and hair¬ 
like, inconspicious, extending 
from beak to the top of the seed 
and then lost in the suture; 
ventral depression shallow, 
broad, wrinkled on outer mar¬ 
gins like Rotundifolia and 
lighter in color than the body 
of the seed; general outline of 
seed is that of Rotundifolia. 
IIT-b. Malaga Seedling No. 1 X Rotundifolia (1-1), 1916. 
These hybrid seedling vines are very similar to those of the preceding. 
The only difference lies in the vigor of the vines, these being very weak. 
IV. Malaga Seedling No. 3 X Rotundifolia (IT), 1917 and 
V. Malaga X Rotundifolia (G-52), 1917. 
These hybrid seedling vines are only one year old and in all of their 
visible characters they are similar to the preceding. 
