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engraving, but the differences are quickly distinguished in the 

 tray. 



It only need be said in passing that the case is one that once 

 served for holding dram vials filled with w^eed seeds. By re- 

 moving the vials, the pockets are filled with the bean seeds, and 

 a glass front is then fitted to the case, and the seeds, being all 

 large, are held securely, and are easily seen beneath the trans- 

 parent cover. 



The pole and lima beans that were under experimentation 

 this season fill up the remaining portion of the case. The latter 

 are so nearly the same whitish color that they differ to the eye 

 chiefly in size. The last twenty-one pockets, 80 10 100, are 

 filled with dwarf limas, and among these, near the middle, the 

 "Jackson Wonder" (91) is strikingly evident because of its 

 dark color, in fact a dull red mottled with black. 



A special holder, shown in the lower part of Plate XL, was 

 made for the wax beans by boring shallow i^-incli pits in a 

 cherry board and fitting a glass cover to slide close to the seed- 

 cavities. In this case are the forty-eight numbers of the wax 

 beans that were under trial. As in the other holder, the numbers 

 run from the first at the upper left-hand corner horizontally for 

 each row until number 48 is reached, at the lower right-hand 

 corner. The number for each kind does not show distinctly in 

 the engraving. When the final adjustment is made, the name 

 of each variety can be placed under its pocket. 



I Experiments With Peas. 



A portion of plot i, series VI, was devoted to experiments 

 with peas. Through the kindness of Professor W. T. Macoun, 

 of the Experimental Farms at Ottawa, Canada, seeds were 

 obtained of four varieties of peas. The original peas of this 

 lot were obtained of a New York seed house in 1896, and suc- 

 cessive crops of these varieties had been grown by Professor 

 Macoun at Ottawa each year since that date. These peas were 

 sown in parallel rows with seed of the same sorts obtained direct 

 from the same seed house that originally furnished the Canadian 

 seed'. The seed purchased from the New York house this 

 spring was grown in Jefferson County, New York. The com- 

 parison was, therefore, between seed with its ancestorv Canadian 

 since 1896 and that from a more southern locality. 



The seed was sown on April 26th ; upon May 9th row i was 

 more advanced than row 2. Row 3 was a little better than row 



