492 NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 



A set of these seeds in four-ounce bottles has been placed in the 

 Museum for future reference, and some herbarium specimens were 

 secured of the plants grown in the Garden. 



Attempts at cross breeding were made Ijetween the following 

 kinds, which were grown in pairs of parallel rows, planted early 

 in the season : 



"Abundance"-" Admiral." 



"Alaska"-"T()iu Tliiimb." 



"Alaska"-"Telephone." 



"Alaska"-"French Canner." 



"American 'N^'onder"— "French Canner." 



"Daniel 0'Rourke"-"Surprise." 



"Horsford-s Market"-"First of All." 



"Black-Eyed Marrowfat"-"Prosperity." 



"Excelsior"-"Prosperity." 



"First of Air'-"Telephone." 



"Nott's Excelsior"-"Gradus." 



"Thomas Laxton"-"Telephone." 



"Ameer" (a few plants alone). 



The following suspected crosses Avere planted June 29th, from 

 which a few seeds were obtained: 



1/41 — "Abundance/French Canner." 



2/41 — "Alaska/French Canner." 

 14/5 —"First of All/Black-Eyed Marrowfat." 

 14/21 — "First of All/Nott's Excelsior." 

 14/30— "First of All/Telephone." 

 15/36— "Gradus/Tom Thumb." 

 21/41 — "Nott's Excelsior/French Canner." 

 30/21 — "Telephone/Nott's Excelsior." 

 30/41 — "Telephone/French Canner." 

 31/14— "Thomas Laxton/First of All." 

 36/38- "Tom Thumb/Prolific Early Market." 

 39/1 — "Ameer/Abundance." 

 39/36— "Ameer/Tom Thumb." 

 39/41 — "Ameer/French Canner." 

 40/41 — "Admiral/French Canner." 

 41/4 — "French Canner/American Wonder." 

 41/15 — "French Canner/Gradus." 

 41/30 — "French Canner/Telephone." 



The summer season is not, of course, favorable for peas. It was 

 particularly noted that plants having the "French Canner" "blood" 

 represented were unusually strong. 



In Plate XXIII. seven crosses of peas are represented, they 



