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Thus far the habit of the common tomato has predominated in the 
plants grown from the crossed seed. The first planting from the 
crosses with the Alpha and Livingston’s Favorite gave but one plant 
with the Upright habit, to a hundred or more of the common form, 
and this plant was so late that it ripened no fruit. We gathered sev- 
eral of the earliest ripening fruits from plants having the ordinary 
habit, however, and from the seeds of these obtained many plants of 
the Upright habit. One of the latter lot of plants was of very com- 
pact form, being scarcely more than one and a half feet in height, 
and eight inches in diameter, and ripened its first fruit as early as 
the earliest named variety in the garden. In case we succeed in fix- 
ing the character of this plant, we shall have attained our object. 
The cross between the French Upright and Acme, made in 1884, 
yielded in the first planting a much larger proportion of plants of 
the Upright type, than did the crosses with the Alpha and Living- 
ston’s Favorite. 
We find that selecting only smooth fruits through three genera- 
tions, from a cross between the Turk’s Cap or Turban tomato and 
the Acme, and other large smooth sorts, made in 1882, seems to have 
bred out all influence of the Turk’s Cap parent, so far as form is con- 
cerned. 
An Evperiment with the Earliest and the Latest Germinating Seeds. 
It is well known that the seeds of a given planting do not usually 
all germinate or vegetate on the same day. In order to discover 
whether any relation exists between the time of germination, and 
the time of maturity of the fruits in the tomato, we selected four 
plants of the Mayflower variety, of which the seed germinated the 
fourth day, and four others of which the seed germinated the thir- 
teenth and fourteenth days after placing in the seed pan. The 
plants of each lot were set out in the garden June 3rd. The first 
ripe fruits on each lot appeared September 5, but the first ten ripe 
fruits appeared four days earlier on the plants that germinated latest. 
The results are as nearly uniform as we could expect in duplicate 
plantings. 
Ts the Number of Cells in the Tomato Influenced by Heredity ? 
We repeated the experiment made in 1884 of planting seeds of the 
Early Red Smooth tomato from three-celled and six-celled fruits 
respectively, with a similar result. Fifty fruits gathered at random 
from the plants grown from three-celled fruits contained 158 cells, 
while an equal number from plants grown from six-celled fruits con- 
tained 259 cells. As few celled fruits seem more likely to be smooth 
than many celled ones, it is possible that an advantage is to be gain- 
ed by selecting few celled fruits for seed. 
PEA. 
Of the pea we grew thirteen varieties, or names of varieties—not 
previously grown at the station, and such others as we desired for 
further study, or for comparison with the later introductions. 
All but two were planted April 24, viz., the ‘‘ Blue Wrinkled 
Dwarf” and ‘Yellow Wrinkled” from Dr. T. H. Hoskins of 
Newport, Vt., two new varieties, which we believe are not yet per- 
manently named. These were planted May 22, and hence are not 
