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Blue Bird, Christmas Captain, Christmas Pink, Enchantress, Florence E. 

 Denzer, Governor Fort, Greenbrook, Jack Hunter, Le Marquis, Meteor, 

 Miss Helen M. Gould, Miss Josie Reilly, Mrs. C. H. Totty, Mrs. F. J. 

 Dolansky, Mrs. J. F. Hannan, Mrs. George Lewis, Mrs. A. Wallace, Mrs. 

 E. Wild, Mrs. William Sim, Mrs. W. W. Smalley, Niger, Pink Beauty, 

 Red Seedling, Variegated, Watchung, William J. Stewart, and Wallacea; 

 in 191 1, Zvolanek's Blue, Orange, Pink, and J. K. Allen. 



From C. Engelmann, Saffron Walden, Essex, England, came the follow- 

 ing six varieties of Lathyrus odoratus Praecox: White, Mauve, Deep 

 Mauve, Carmine, Maroon, and Blue. 



There were obtained from F. Fleetwood Paul, Botley, Hants, England, 

 the following four varieties of " Paul's Improved Telemly Strain, or 

 Christmas-Flowering Sweet Peas": Rose and Carmine, Mauve, Two 

 Shades Pink, and White. 



From the Reverend E. Arkwright, Telemly, Alger-Mustapha, Algeria, 

 Africa, were received the following eighteen named varieties of Telemly 

 sweet peas: Apple Blossom, Indigo Blue, Blue and Red, Cerise, Lavender 

 arid Pink, Lavender, Maroon, Mauve, Pale Pink, Pink, Pale Primrose, 

 Purple, Purple and Maroon, Red Bicolor, Red Self, Red and White, 

 Violet, and White. 



Canary, Flamingo, Christmas White, Snowbird, and Mrs. A. C. 

 Zvolanek, also seeds of Mont Blanc, Earliest Sunbeams, Earliest White, 

 Eariiest of All, Reselected Eariiest of All, Emily Henderson, and Blanche 

 Ferry, were received from A. T. Boddington, New York. The same firm 

 forwarded packets of their stock of Florence E. Denzer, Mrs. W. W. 

 Smalley, Mrs. A. Wallace, Mrs. William Sim, Mrs. E. Wild, Mrs. George 

 Lewis, Christmas Pink, and Watchung, which were identical with the 

 varieties of the same name in the Zvolanek collection. 



The Bryson Ayres Company, Independence, Mo., sent the following va- 

 rieties: Christmas Primrose, Mrs. A. Wallace, Ayres' Thanksgiving White, 

 Christmas Blue, Mrs. C. H. Totty, Christmas Pink, Mrs. WilHam Sim. 



Altogether, seventy-three varieties, from five sources in America, 

 Algeria, and England, have been tested at this station. This probably 

 represents the largest collection of the forcing type ever brought together. 

 In all these trials there has never been discovered the slightest reason for 

 believing that any variety was a hybrid between some species of the vetch 

 and Lathyrus odoratus. Side by side with the varieties of winter-flowering 

 sweet peas the following species of vetch have been grown and studied at 

 all stages of development: Vicia sativa, V. villosa, V. gerardii, and V. 

 Jul gens. 



The winter-flowering Lathyrus odoratus Praecox and the Telemly strains 

 all have the same habit of growth and early-flowering propensity, with 



