HOKTICULTURAL DIVISION. 335 



Carolina, Arkansas and Louisiana. The varieties ripening seeds are 

 ten, as folloAvs : 



Black, from N. C. 



Black Eye, N. C. 



Blue, La. 



California Bird's Eye, Ark. 



Clay, N. C. 



Gray Prolific, N. C. 



Large White, La. 



Whipporwill, N. C, Ark., La. 



Yellow Prolific, N. C. 



Yellow Sugar Chowder, Ark, 



The varieties which did not mature seeds are the following : 



Black, from La. 

 /Brown Eye, Ark. 

 Clay, La. 

 Conch, N. C. 

 Indian, La. 

 King, La. 

 Lady, La. 

 Purple Hull, La. 

 Stewart, N. C. 



The varieties which seemed best adapted to this latitude were the 

 Black and Whipporwill. The latter I fruited also at Lansing, Michi- 

 gan, in 1887. It will be seen that there appears to be a difference 

 between samples of the same variety coming from different sources. 

 The Black pea from North Carolina seed matured well, but that from 

 Louisiana stock was too late. The same difference occurred in the 

 Clay, This is what might have been expected, and it emphasizes the 

 importance of securing seed from the northernmost station, when 

 choosing stock for growing in the north. On the whole, the Black 

 cow pea seems best adapted to growing in Central New York. A 

 small patch of this was sown on a rich, loose soil July IV, and the 

 plants made as heavy growth as those sown upon the clay soil nearly 

 a month earlier. But the cow pea affords so much less winter protec- 

 tion to the soil than the vetch, without any counterbalancing advant- 

 ages, that it can scarcely be recommunded for an orchard cover in the 

 north. 



The ordinary field pea was also grown this year as a winter cover. 

 One lot was sown August 18. Although the tips of the plants were 

 somewhat shriveled by frost, the plot was still green and growing the 



