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mutant, so widely different was it from the otliei*s. The plant in 

 question was wide-spreading and low, the leaves of which were not 

 half as large as the average, and arranged without the usual length 

 of intemodes. These characteristics gave the plant a striking ap- 

 pearance and, in addition, while the plants upon all sides bloomed 

 freely, this one did not produce a single flower bud. For the pur- 

 pose of ordinary petunias — that is, garden display of various 

 shades — this plant was, of course, a failure. 



Sweet Peas. — With the hot days of summer all the varieties died 

 down. The ''Cupid" dropped its buds just before blooming. All 

 attempts at crossing were unsuccessful. 



TEST OF RUST.RESISTIN6 CANTALOUPES. 



Through the kindness of Professor P. K. Blinn, of the Colorado 

 Experiment Station, a quantity of a Rust-Resisting Cantaloupe* 

 was received by this department and distributed tO' growers who 

 make a specialty of this crop. The demand for this seed was so 

 great that a request was made for a supplemental package, but as 

 the supply of the seed of the desired kind was exhausted. Professor 

 Blinn kindly forwarded a generous supply of the ''Pollock Strain 

 of the Rocky Ford Cantaloupe," and this was freely distributed 

 in liberal packets. 



Twenty- four l^ew Jersey citron growers received both the 

 "Rust-Resisting" and "Pollock Strain," and seventeen additional 

 truckers had only the latter, making in all forty-one persons who 

 made the test. 



Tt may be well to include here a copy of the letter of transmissal 

 of both the "Rust-Resisting" and the "Pollock Strain" of Canta- 

 loupes : 



February 8th, 1906. 



Dear Sir — The Experiment Station has just received some seed 

 of the "Rocky Ford" Cantaloupe from the Colorado Experiment 

 Station. It is claimed that this seed is from plants that are 

 strongly resistant to disease, and I am desirous of testing it in 

 fields along with cantaloupes of the ordinary sorts, to determine 

 whether this strain is of special value for "citron" growers of this. 

 State. 



* "A Rust-Resisting Cantaloupe." P. K. Blinn. Bulletin No. 104, Colorado 

 Experiment Station, November, 1905. 



