EXPERIMENT STATION REPORT. 277 



Inheritance Studies With Beans. 



EARLE J. OWEN, M. SC. 



In Series VII, Plots 2 and 3 selected, white seeded bush limas 

 were grown of the "J- W.-Dreer" set; two-thirds of Strip I 

 included the "J. W." * crosses ("J. W. type," "Dark-red," 

 "White"), also the "Station Bush" and a few pole limas. The 

 "Scarlet Runner" hybrids, commercial Snap Beans, selected bush 

 crosses and "J. W.-Dreer" (white) occupied Strip II. 



SNAP BEAN CROSSES. 



The selected strains of Station Snap Beans, No. i (131/ 

 130), No. 2 (26/29), and No. 3 (129/111) were under obser- 

 vation and kept well to type. Station No. 3, all points con- 

 sidered, seems most desirable. Frequent pickings of the 

 "Snaps" for table test kept the plants in bearing until checked 

 by frost, and the brittle pods were marketable when nearly ma- 

 ture. 



"president roosevelt" — "crystal wax" — "davis" 

 (243//145/112) III. 



This cross is of interest in that it represents the union of a 

 stringless, white seeded, green podded pole bean with a white 

 seeded, stringless, wax bush bean. 



The plants of the first generation produced runners freely 

 and yielded green pods containing white seeds. No plants of 

 the second generation were strictly "polers" but possessed well- 

 developed runners in most instances, while the pods were of four 

 colors — yellow, white, pale green and green. The pods pro- 

 duced this season are quite uniformity stringless and of fair size, 

 the 225 plants grown yielding fruit divided among the four 

 colors as follows: — yellow, 108; white, 47; pale green, 13; 

 green, 57. 



"longfellow" — keeney's refugee" (26/132) II. 



This represents a cross between two mottled varieties with 

 the idea of determining as to whether a solid color ever results 

 from such a union. All plants of the first generation produced 

 mottled seed and the thirty plants grown this year all yielded 

 a mottled purple seed resembling 132. 



*"J. W." staiiJs lor "Jackson Wonder," a siieckled bush lima bean. 



