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-same time as the one above noted but the crosses here were differ- 

 ent and no crop was secured. 



A shade experiment was made with a few hills of peas by- 

 placing them between widely separated over-arching trees, but 

 only an occasional seed was the reward. The hope of growing 

 peas to a liberal fruiting, other than in the spring, hangs by a 

 slender thread and work with other crops in midsummer is too 

 pressing to spend time in nursing any one kind unduly out of 

 season. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SALSIFY. 



Upon August 25th (1906), the following rows of three hills 

 each (four by four feet each way) were planted in the lower part 

 of Plot 4, Series II. : 



Row I. This was planted with seeds formed under bags of the 

 pure yellow wild type {Tragopogon pratense). The plants all 

 came true. 



Row 2. This was planted with seed from, protected heads of 

 darker red orange (Prang, No. 31), and the plants produced a 

 set of blooms of the same color combination. 



Row 3. This set of three hills was planted from bagged heads 

 of plants of 2i-y, dark red red orange and reproduced the parent 

 type with much uniformity. 



Row 4. This row contained plants fertilized within the head 

 of the red violet (No-. 233), which adhered closely to the parent 

 color with some "yellow-eyed" heads. 



Row 5. The plants here were somewhat variable in shade but 

 within a narrow range and proved no marked exception to the 

 rule. 



Row 6. This was a duplicate of row 5, 



Row 7. This set of hills was planted with seed from protected 

 flowers of the light red violet (No. 234) type and came true to the 

 parent color. 



Row 8. This row was planted with "suspect" seed of garden 

 upon "Black" salsify, but all the plants were of the latter species. 



Row 9. This w^as an attempt to get a reciprocal of the last- 

 named, but all the plants were the pure garden type. 



