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The "Davis" "suspect" gave in the seeoud generation mottled 

 and white seeds, while "Jones' Stringless" produced a dark brown 

 in addition to the gray-mottled type. 



So much attention was demanded by the more important "hand- 

 worked" crosses that little time could be given to the "JSTatural 

 Suspects" during the past season, but seeds have been saved for 

 ii further study of the subject. 



Mature and Immature Beans for Seeds. 



Upon July 20th, immature beans, freshly gathered and still 

 quite soft, were planted with every alternate parallel row, receiv- 

 ing mature stock seeds of the same variety. 



The object of this experiment was tO' observe any differences 

 Mdiicli might thus occur l>etween the pairs of rows. 



Of the eight varieties thus treated, "Bismarck," "Allan's Im- 

 perial," "Eldorado" and "White Kidney" showed no contrast in 

 size of plant, earliness, prolificness or color of seeds. 



With the "California Black" and "Davis" the immature row 

 was the more prolific, but the opposite was true of the "Improved 

 Tree" and "Pride of Newton." 



The experiment does not show that there is much difference to be 

 expected between the crops obtained from planting freshly-gathered 

 seeds and from thoroughly dried commercial beai^s. 



SCARLET RUNNER HYBRIDS. 



Early last year hybrids were secured between the "Scarlet 

 Hunner" (Phaseolus muHiforus) and several snap bush beans 

 (P. vulgaris). The differences between the parents are great, for 

 the former is a climbing species with a profusion of blooms of a 

 bright red (scarlet) color followed by an occasional pod bearing 

 but few large chocolate and purple-mottled seeds, and the latter is 

 a bush or dwarf type of the common garden bean, the particular 

 characteristics of which are given below under the varieties that 

 are involved in the union. 



