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The bush or snap beans have occupied much of the poorer land 

 recently assigned to the Department, and some of the crosses are 

 so far developed as to make it possible to offer seeds in the coming 

 spring. Crosses of Lima beans have been given more than usual 

 space. y\ll of the leading sorts have been grown, and many 

 crosses between them are upon trial. A study is being made of 

 the ''Willow-leaf" types as having a possible advantage over the 

 ordinary sorts in times when the mildew is prevalent. Another 

 generation of the hybrids between the snap beans and "Scarlet 

 Runner" has been grown and the number of types are many, dif- 

 fering in form of vine, leaf, flower, pod and seed. The prolific 

 plants may in some instances be the beginning of hopeful lines 

 that are quite new. 



Squashes of the summer sorts were given a place upon the 

 Home Grounds, and out of the fifty and more selected inbred 

 crosses of previous years, a few will be selected as worthy of a 

 place among the commercial sorts. Several new kinds were 

 grown and used extensively in the breeding. The winter squashes 

 did not fare so well, they being assigned to the less fertile land 

 where greater area was possible for them. Many of the crosses 

 failed to mature fruit, but of others satisfactory results were ob- 

 tained. 



The crossing of garden peas, begun last year, was carried for- 

 ward for a season, and some promising types are in evidence; 

 in August a partial set of these was grown as an autumn crop, 

 without considerable success. 



Salsify, okra and onions all received some attention during the 

 year. The Japanese Udo as a salad plant has not met the expec- 

 » tations, chiefly due to a blight that sickened the plants early in 

 the season, from which they never recovered their full vigor. 



During the year two bulletins, namely, No. 199, "Station Nov- 

 elties in Truck Crops," (34 pages, 4 plates, 7 figures), and No. 

 202, "The Forest Trees of New Jersey" (54 pages, 25 text en- 

 gravings), have been issued; the first dealing with the distribu- 

 tion of seeds, and the last gave some notes as to the range and 

 culture of the trees of the state. The seed distribution last spring 

 embraced 1087 packets as follows: Corn, 411; tomatoes, 330; 



