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retained ; of its crosses with Lennig’s White, nine and two-tenths 
were discarded to one retained. | 
The prepotency of Johnston’s Late in transmitting to its seed- 
lings desirable characters of fruit, foliage and fruiting season 
have been discussed on a previous page, p. 680. 
Lida crossed with two different varieties gave a total of 
fourteen seedlings of which more than one-fourth, twenty-eight 
per cent, were reserved for further testing. Of its crosses with 
Lennig’s White, two were discarded to every one retained ; of its 
crosses with Dawley, four were discarded to every one retained, 
Stayman’s No. I crossed with three different varieties gave a 
total of thirty-nine seedlings of which nearly one-fifth, twenty 
and five-tenths per cent, were kept for further testing. Of its 
crosses with Sharpless, seven-tenths of one seedling on the aver- 
age was discarded for every one retained; of its crosses with 
Jes:ie, three were discarded for every one retained, and of its 
crosses with Bomba, six and a half were discarded to one 
retained. 
The other mother plants being represented by but few seed- 
lings need not be considered further in this connection. 
About fifty of these crosses were exhibited fruiting in pots at 
the Worlds Fair, Chicago, last summer, and the exhi»it received 
many words of commendation. Those who were interested in 
that exhibit will appreciate the high standard of merit adopted 
in testing these seedlings when it is stated that nearly all the 
varieties thus exhibited were afterwards discarded as unworthy 
of introduction. 
SUMMARY. 
I. Systematic breeding may be expected to give more rapid 
improvement of cultivated strawberries than will the introduc- 
tion of chance seedlings. 
II. Johnston’s Late appears to be a desirable parent for use in 
breeding late varieties of strawberries. 
III. Lennig’s White was found to be very prepotent in trans- 
-mitting the color, flavor and shape of its fruit to its seedlings. 
Its seedlings generally appear to be undesirable except Pos es 
for home use. 

