EXPERIMENT STATION REPORT. 



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Spraying Experiments with Buali Beans. 



Forty rows of bush beans were planted July llth for the pur- 

 pose of testing the value of spraying with standard Bordeaux to 

 check the pod spot and rust upon late-gi'own beans. The record 

 numbers from 1 through 146 are of old sorts, and the following, 

 from 165 to 194, are among the novelties, that is, not before grown 

 in the Gardens, The following is the full list : 



1. "Best of All." 



2. "Bountiful Bush." 



5. "Burlingame Medium." 



19. "Dwarf Horticultural." 



20. "Dwarf Horticultural." 

 26. "Longfellow." 



28. "White Marrowfat." 



31. "Early Mohawk." 



36. "Refugee" (Green). 



40. "Mammoth Stringless." 



45. "Henderson's Black Valentine. 



47. "Red Valentine." 



48. "Red Valentine." 



54. "Six Weeks." 



55. "Six Weeks." 



101. "Burpee's Brittle Wax." 



108. "Black Wax." 



109. "Black Wax." 

 112. "Davis' Wax." 

 114, "Flageolet," 



126, "German Black Wax," 



127, "Golden Wax," 

 130. "Golden Eye Wax." 

 132. "Keeney's Refugee." 

 134. "Round Pod Kidney." 

 139. "Refugee" (Wax). 

 141. "Saddleback." 



144. "Wai-dwell's Kidney." 



145. "Crystal Wax." 



146. "Yosemite Mammoth." 

 158. "Silver Refugee." 

 165. "Perfection Wax," 

 167, "Mohawk Wax," 



182, "White Kidney" (Green). 

 185, "Hodson Wax," 



194, "Burpee's Stringless'' (Green). 



195, "Hodson Green Pod," 



196, "Jones' Stringless" (Green). 



197, "Pencil Pod Wax," 



The first spraying was given upon July 19th, eight days after 

 planting, and a half of each row was left untreated with the Bor- 

 deaux throughout the experiment. While the plan was to spray 

 at intervals of one week, the rainy weather required some modi- 

 fication so that the dates of the seven sprayings were as follows: 

 July 19th and 23d, August 1st, 4th and 13th, September 1st and 

 8th!' 



There was very little disease of any sort, in some measure due 

 to the unusually fine seed employed. The varieties, which showed 

 a small amount of pod spot, were the "Six Weeks," "Black Wax,'' 

 "Davis," "Golden Eye" and "Saddleback Wax," and those with 

 more of this disease in evidence were "'Flage<^let," "Golden Wax," 

 "Mohawk," "Burpee's Stringless" and "Pencil Pod Wax." The 

 kinds not mentioned above were comparatively free from the pod 

 spot. 



