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Plate YIL show? small heaps (thirty seeds) of each of the five 

 varieties, as named below their respective seeds. The lower row 

 shows corresponding heaps of the six bush sorts of the crossed limas 

 that Avere grown the present season. 



It is not easy to make a comparison of these several sorts, because 

 they have no one point that is a unit of measurement for all. How- 

 ever, the number of pods per plant has been determined, and, avoid- 

 ing all fractions, is as follows : 



"Henderson" 24 " Burp.-Hend., No. 2" 8 



"Burpee" 4 " Burp -Hend , No. 4" 11 



"Thorburn" 5 " Burp-Hend., No. 5" 9 



"Dreer" 5 "Burp -Hend, No. 6" 8 



"Willow-leaf" 19 "Burp-Hend., No. 18" ]0 



" Burp.-Hend., No, 1 9 " 10 



The "Henderson"' and "Willow-leaf"' lead in number of pod?; l)ut 

 they are smaller than those of the other sorts. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH FUNGICIDES. 



The systematic use of fungicides for the current year has been con- 

 fined to spraying in the greenhouse^, a report of which has appeared 

 in the bulletin* issued during the summer. In the field spraying has 

 only been done to preserve the crop plants from the ravages of insects. 

 The tests with fungicides Avere omitted that the effect of clean culture 

 might be noticed for the year. As stated elsewhere, the eggplants 

 were comparatiA-ely free from disease until late in the season, when 

 the moist conditions favored the rapid growth of the fruit rot. In 

 like manner the tomato plants suffered but little until in September, 

 when the leaf -spot became evident, and during the following month 

 the foliage was considerably affected. The plants upon the Experi- 

 ment Area were not blighted to the extent seen elsewhere, and this 

 seems due in part to the regular practice of keeping the vines clean 

 of diseased parts during the growing season and burning all vines 

 and rubbish on the Experiment Ground whenever the crop is removed. 



* No. 167. Some of the Newer Fungicides, June 29th, 1903. 



