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Diiriiiij: IS!)!) hrlts 1, "2 ami :', ol! Tint 1 \'., Series 111., wore in lima 

 beaii!> for the fourth successive cro]), and with the two varieties of 

 the previous season grown as before in alternate double rows through- 

 out the half plot. The sprayings were eleven in inimhcr, extending 

 from June 2d to Se})tember r.^tli. and there was very little disease, 

 the "•'Henderson" ])ods being all in healthy condition. The records 

 show that for 1899 the yield of marketable pods, in ])ounds, was 

 greater for the "Burpee" than for the "Henderson," thus making tlic 

 average for the past two years abont eqnal. 



In 1900 two adjoining belts (1 and -2. IMot 111., Scries 0) were 

 planted with seeds from plants sus])ected of being possible crosses 

 between "Rnrpee" and "Henderson" while standing in the adjoin- 

 ing rows of the crop of the previous year. In the "Burpee'' belt there 

 were twenty plants that were dilTercnt from the rest, and apjx'ared 

 to be crosses between the two above-named varieties. Many of these 

 plants were much smaller than the "Burpee" and near the size of 

 the "Henderson," and bad the darker and more glossy foliage of the 

 latter sort. Some of them, however, were nearly as large as the 

 "Burpee," and showed but little of the characteristics of the "Hen- 

 derson." 



A record was made in the Annual Keport (1900) of the general 

 type of the plant — that is. whether nearer one or the other plant — 

 and a number of green and ripe })ods and a plate showed the form 

 and relative size of the pods and seeds. 



In 1901 seeds of all the twenty plants above mentioned were 

 planted, and all produced from one to seventy-two plants, excepting 

 two (Xos. 1 and 16), which failed. In vigor the sets of plants were 

 generally satisfactory. "There were many individual difTerenoes 

 from the time the seedlings unfolded their first ti'ue leaves, and the 

 plot showed those evidences of a mingled blood that plant-breeders 

 find so diflicult to set down in words." Some rows were nujre uni- 

 form than others, favoring one parent or the other, as the case 

 might be. All the planis of the plot remained true to the dwarfed 

 type excepting seven, and those were given poles and elindx'd. with 

 one exception, with the characteristics of genuine ])()le lieans. Oppor- 

 tunity came for testing the quality of some of the cros-es, and it was 

 found to compare favorably with that of the "'Burpee" and superior to 

 that of the "Henderson." There was a variation in quality, as there 

 >>'as in the character of the nl.nit and seed, amonu" the several sets. 



