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New York AGRICULTURAL ExPERIMENT STATION. 681 
been accomplished to show that the most rapid advance in the 
improvement of strawberries is to be expected in the direction of 
systematic breeding. 
As noted above, some varieties used as parents of the crosses 
originated at this: station, have given a much higher per cent of 
good seedlings than have others. This will become evident on 
examining the following table, XVIII, which indicates to some 
extent the comparative ability of the strawberries therein named — 
to produce seedlings of merit. 
Taste X VIII.—SnHowine THE PARENTAGE OF THE VARIOUS Crossks ; 
THE NuMBER OF SEEDLINGS OF Eacu Cross TrEstep in 1893; 
THE Number or Turse Discarpep IN 1893; Top PER Cent 
DiscarpED IN Eaca Cask, AND THE Ratio oF THE WHOLE 
Noumper Testrep to tHE Numper Kerr For FurtHER TEsTING 
Iv Eaco Cass. 
[In giving the parentage the female parent, as usual, is named first ] 
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umber + . number teste 
PARENTAGE. ted eee discarded, “bar eapetaas 
ed in 1893 pa | 1898. further test- 
ing. 
aOrescent < b0mDa 5... 20.43 22 T8578 Ls 5.5 tol 
Crescent Dawlevis... 2.5.0... 29 LIFT Ces 4.4 tol 
Créscent X Jessie’ sj... ee os ee. 4 Bika 750 .4tol 
Crescent x Lennig’s White...... 100 93 |. 93% Ono 14) 3) Gee 
Crescent X Old Ironclad ........ 70 68r kh LOT sf 985.0 t0mn 
srescent x Sharpless”. 03 f24 2 59 4B TT 4.5 tol 
Daisy < Lennig’s White......... map 5 | 100.0 5.0 to 0 
faverland X Jessie... ...... 6. oss 7 7 | 100.0 7.0 to 0 
Haverland x Sharpless .......... 1 0 0.0 07. £0Rt 
Johnson’s Late x Dawley ....... 3 2} 66.6 3.0 to 1 
Johnson’s Late x Lennig’s White. 41 BF 1. 9052.1 102 ton 
Johnson’s Late x Sharpless ...... 18 12! 66.6 3.0 tol 
MGI aWICY . 5c oe es ves 5 4} 80.0 5.0 tol 
Lida Lennie’s White ......... 9 6 | 66.6 3.0 tol 
Michel’s Early x Lennig’s White. 8 Be Siow 8.0 to 1 
Stayman’s No. 1x Bomba....... 30 26 | 86.6 7.5 tol 
-Stayman’s No. 1x Jessie........ 4 3] 75.0 4.0 tol 
Stayman’s No. 1<Sharpless..... 5 2) 40.0 1.7 tol 
Ripert SOM DAN. 2 ei: bie Vd sii oie 10 Gy) 60.04 \:2 5 tou 
