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twenty pods per plant. These pods were five to six inches long and nearly 

 round." 



"SCARLET runner"' HYBRIDS. 



Considerable space was given to the hybrid between the 

 "Scarlet Runner" and "Tennessee Bush," nine hundred and fifty 

 plants being grown upon Strip IL 



Great variation in plant habit (small compact bus'i, medium 

 and running), in season of blooming and in color of seed has 

 continued together with the wide range of flower color from 

 white through"! pink, salmon and crimson shades to purple. 



The various types of seed colors^ which have appeared are 

 grouped as follows: Dark purple or black, dark mottled (in- 

 cluding mottled purple), solid brown, mottled brown, gray, 

 mottled gray and white, with many variations under each group. 



Forty-two of the plants were selected because of bearing- 

 salmon flowers and thirteen of these with mottled gray seeds 

 were associated with salmon-colored flowers ; all of these plants 

 were descended from a common grandparent with the same 

 characteristics, seed of which is shown at 5 in Plate XVII of the 

 report for 1906. 



Several plants from dark red seed, recorded last year as B-17, 

 have conformed very closely to the parent. The bright crimson 

 flowers, borne on long flower stalks, extend beyond the foliage, 

 wliile the bushy plants produced pods which resembled those of 

 the "Scarlet Runner." The bloom has all the attractiveness of 

 its scarlet parent, while the bush habit of plant has its advan- 

 tages. 



Another plant, B-9-5-1, was remarkable for its prolificness; it 

 was of spreading habit with an inclination to run and late in 

 bearing, its pods being round, green marked with purple and of 

 medium, length. One hundred and sixty pods and five hundred 

 and forty-three seeds were counted at harvest time, giving an 

 average of over three seeds per pod. These seeds are dark red, 

 in some cases purple and of medium size, many having flattened 

 ends due probably to crowding in the pod. Its grandparent was 

 a heavy bearer, followed by a set of offspring that yielded well. 



Five plantings of selected white seeds from as many plants 

 have given 78, 94, 96 and 100 per cent, (two cases), respec- 

 tively, of plants breeding true to the one factor of the parent, 

 namely, white seeds. 



The "Scarlet Runner-China Red Eye" (63/9) hybrid, which is 

 a generation behind the above, (63/43), is similar to it in varia- 

 tions in flower, plant and pod. Seed from sixteen of last year's 



