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Title: Bulletin
Identifier: bulletin172newh (find matches)
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station
Subjects: Agriculture -- New Hampshire
Publisher: (Hanover, N. H. ) : New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station
Contributing Library: University of New Hampshire Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of New Hampshire Library

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12 N. H. AGR. EXPERIMENT STATION. (BuUetin 172 (b) Mosaic Inheritance. Whether a form of variegation of pie-bald color manifests itself in any of the hj'brids. • (c) Alternative Inheritance. Where one character of a com- plementary pair is inherited to the apparent exclusion of the other. Fi GENERATION. During the season 1909, 80 seeds of the cross SS x 149* were sown, and in the offspring several of the melons resembled the
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Fig. 4. Parents and offspring in melon cross. 149, Delices de la table, a French cantaloupe with yellow or straw colored skin, deep ribbing, and no netting; and Sutton's Superlative, an English muskmelon with a dark green skin, very close netting, no ribbing and perfectly round in shape. The melon in the center is a perfect combination of the characters of the parent. It possesses the color of 149, the netting of Sutton's Superlative, and is intermediate in ribbing, size and shape. female, while others resembled the male parent, the majority, however, being hybrid in character. One melon possessed the combined characteristics of both parents, namely, in netting it resembled the female, while the color of skin resembled the male. Modified ribbing was manifest and in form of fruit it resembled the female; the seeds were decidedly intermediate and in flavor the melon was a decided blend; the cavity, how- *For convenience the male parent, Delices de la table, is referred to in this bulletin as No. 149, the serial number in the stock book, while the female pa- rent, Sutton's Superlative, is referred to as SS.

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