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T]w nist ap]ir'ar('(l lator and oiilv in small amount upon the 

 folluAviiio' varieties: "Long-fellow/' *'White Marrowfat" and 

 ■^^ Refugee/' tlius indieatiug that the late green-podded sorts may 

 he the more susceptible.* 



The foliage held upon the plants longer with some of the sprayed 

 half rows than those which were untreated, hut, as a whole, the 

 test showed no practical benefit from the application of the Bor- 

 deaux mixture because of the general absence of the diseases that 

 were to he conibatted. 



Natnral Snspeot" Beans. 



The term "Natural Suspect" is given to those apparent crosses 

 Avhich have occurred without pa-evious treatment of the bloom to 

 •secure a special combination. That varieties of lima beans may 

 mix without the aid of artificial pollination, when grown near 

 together, and ])resumably through the agency of insects, is inferred 

 from the results olitained in the case of the "Jackson Wonder" 

 '4:To?ses. 



Pot several years many varieties of snap heans have been grown 

 "in parallel rows uniformly tAvo feet apart. Last year, when the 

 first crop was gathered from a planting of these home-grown seeds, 

 beans were found in certain rows different, not only from the 

 -parent type, but unlike any other variety in the plot. 



Below are given some of the varieties which produced divergent 

 .seed tyjies with the varying color in each case: 



The "Black Valentine,"^ "Cylinder," "Burpee" and "Davis" all 

 -ijave the dark-mottled seeds as a variation from the parent type. 

 From the "Jones' Strina:less" row curious fiTav-mottled seeds with 

 i\ dark "eye" were gathered. 



Tlu^ "Black Valentine" "suspect" in the second generation pro- 

 4luced seeds of three tyjies — ^l^lack, mottled and that of the 

 "^'Buriiee." Judging from the behavior of "hand-worked" crosses, 

 this result points to a mixture with a black-seeded sort like the 

 "^^Bisnuirck," which was grown two feet from the "Black Valen- 

 tine." 



* Note —The "Tennessee" and "Improved Tree" (both green-podded) grown 

 as a second crop elsewhere in the Gardens, rusteil quite badly but did not show the 

 pod spot. 



