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New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 325 
Tolman Sweet. Susceptible varieties are Fameuse, Esopus Spitzen- 
burg, and Rhode Island Greening. The statement is made that, so 
far as examination has been made, the resistant varieties have 
_ thicker cuticle and thicker walled epidermal cells. The proposition 
is advanced that these resistant characteristics might be intensified 
by breeding and selection. 
VEGETABLES. 
Much time during the first years of the horticultural depart- 
ment’s existence was spent in testing vegetables. Many of the so- 
called varieties of vegetables sent out by our seedsmen are prac- 
tically identical, although passing under different names. Many 
others, while not exactly identical, are quite similar. It was 
with the purpose of correcting this synonymy and arranging 
the various varieties according to their apparent relationship that 
this work was started. Something in the nature of a monograph 
of a particular vegetable is given in each one of the earlier reports 
of the Station; that is, while notes are given on the current year’s 
tests of vegetables in general, some one particular vegetable is 
written up in detail. Besides the description of each variety under 
its name, other information is given in tabulated form with those 
varieties classed together which, in the opinion of the experimenter, 
are most closely related. This work has been carried out with a 
thoroughness and attention to details which would seem to have 
justified a more widely extended dissemination than the expensive 
annual reports of the Experiment Station permit. 
In the First Report?® of this Station, beans are treated in the man- 
ner indicated, eighty-three or more varieties being tested, the number 
being considerably reduced, however, in the report by combining 
those which proved to be identical. Eight varieties failed to mature, 
including all of the lima beans tested. All the varieties are classi- 
fied according to a system credited to a German, Martens. The 
next year this work was extended, 251 varieties being planted. 
Some of these, however, failed to vegetate and many of the south- 
ern varieties matured no crop, some of them not even blooming. 
It was found that when ‘all varieties which came under different 
names but which proved to be identical were counted as one, 
there were 102 distinct varieties under test. A very detailed tabu- 
lated life history of each variety is given and the individual varie- 
ties are classified and described in the text following the table. 
> Rpt. 1:89 (1882). 
