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No. 54. "Sweet Potato." Large and very long, dark wfth 



green stripes. 

 No. 55. "Mexican Pumpkin." No crop. 



GOURDS. 



No. 50. "Chinese Bottle Gourd." 

 shape is like a bottle. 



As the name suggests, its 



EXPERIMENTS WITH PEAS. 



Several sets of pea crosses that had been carried through their 

 first generation from the blend plants last autumn were continued 

 during the spring months. A large part of the details of these 

 trials will be left in the record books for the present, but some- 

 thing concerning a single combination is noted below. 



Second Generation of "French Canner-Amerlcan Wonder" Cross (41/4). 



Following the tentative classification of the one hundred and 

 twenty-seven seeds of one of the plants of this cross, peas were 

 planted of the eight combinations given below : 



At harvest time, all eight groups were represented excepting 

 the last one, of which there were only two seeds at the outset. 

 The record shows that the dwarf plants were limited to two with 

 one that showed a form and size midway between the dwarf and 

 standard plant. This is far below the number expected under the 

 Mendelian rule, but, as the harvested plants were only twenty- 

 four, the number is too small for any close approximation. It is 

 found that peas are not an easy subject for the study of seed char- 



