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U.S.D.A. 20900. These spreading plants had small leaves, fol- 

 lowing the "Mexican" type in habit of growth and late sea- 

 son. No blooms formed up to Sept. 9th. 



U.S.D.A. 20901. This plant is similar to 20900 with a few 

 white blooms. 



U.S.D.A. 20902. This is another late spreading variety, not yet 

 in bloom (Sept. 9th). 



U.S.D.xA^. 20903. This variety resemble's 20902 and not yet in 

 bloom (Sept. 9th). 



U.S.D.A. 20904. This is a good bearer, medium early in sea- 

 son, with a small crop of fiat, curved pods bearing light grey 

 seeds with a yellow "eye." 



U.S.D.A. 20905. This variety conforms to 20904 in plant and 

 pod types with black seed. 



U.S.D.A^ 20939. This plant is spreading in habit bearing a few 

 fiat, straight green pods. 



U.S.D.A. 20940. The plant is spreading with white flowers and 

 flat green pods forming Sept. 9th. 



U.S.D.A. 20941. The plants are late with spreading habit and 

 beginning to bear white flowers Sept. 9th. 



U.S.D.A. 20942. These are upright bushy plants with large 

 leaves, white flowers and straight, flat green pods. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH HYBRID BEANS. 



Hybrids between the "Scarlet Runner" upon bush beans were 

 obtained in 1905 and seeds planted late the same year gave 

 profuse blooming plants quite slow to produce seeds. The 

 pods that did mature were much smaller than those of the male 

 parent. Phase ohis miiltiflorus, and lacked the roughness charac- 

 teristic of the pods of this ornamental climbing plant. The seeds 

 (blend) obtained resembled the "Scarlet Runner" in being marked 

 with, red but were of much smaller size. 



In 1906, thirteen plants were grown of the hybrid of the "Scar- 

 let Runner" upon the "Tennessee," above mentioned, under the 

 record fractional number of 63/43. The mother of the cross is 

 a tall variety of bush bean with white flowers and long green pods 

 that produce seeds of medium size and of a light brown color. 

 The blend seeds for this crop \vere planted May ist, and the 

 results in seeds were shown in Plate XVII. of last year's report, 



