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further developed. A hybrid between the ''■'Scarlet Chinese" and the 

 ordinar}- eggplant was fruited. 



A long list of new crosses of bush beans of both the green pod and 

 wax sorts was grown for their first and second generations, and some 

 progress was made in the selection of the bush lima beans. 



A large portion of the Gardens was occupied with the new crosses 

 of tomatoes, some of wliich are full of promise. From 'olocks of certain 

 former crosses a good supply of seed has been saved for distribution. 

 Of these is a cross between 'Tonderosa*' and '"Magnus," the ^'Mag- 

 nerosa.'*' In addition to this a long list of the best sorts was grown 

 and also a number of the novelties of the year. A fresh supply of 

 seed of the ''Station Yellow" tomato has been grown for further 

 distribution. 



The experiments with hybrid salsify have been continued and some 

 results were obtained from the breeding of ornamental plants. 



Bulletin Xo. 1?9, "Free Distribution of Experiment Station Seeds," 

 of twenty pages and four page-plates, was published December 20th. 

 As a result seed packets to the number of 872 were sent out, chiefly 

 to the crop-growers of the State. This does not include the large 

 number of samples of crossed seeds that were placed in the hands of 

 scores of truckers and others for special tests, reports upon which 

 cannot be given for another year. 



The work with the beans, eggplants and summer squashes has been 

 in immediate charge of Mr. E. J. Owens, and that of tomatoes and 

 winter squashes of Mr. J. K. Shaw, up to the time of his resignation. 



THE EXPERIMENT AREA. OR GARDENS. 



The plan of the Gardens is given upon the adjoining page. They 

 consist of two acres, divided into seven series, with four plots to each 

 series. Paths, in sod, four feet wide separate the series, while two- 

 foot walks run length^-ise of the grounds and divide the plots. There 

 are twenty-eight plots, each thirty-three by sixty-six feet, each a 

 twentieth of an acre, to which is added an irregular block of ground 

 at each end of the regular set of plots, as shown in the plan. 



The soil is fairly uniform in quality, it being a mixture of clay 

 and gravel, and at the outset was not of the best for garden purposes. 

 Its texture has, however, been much improved by the annual applica- 

 tion of stable manure, at the rate of twenty tons per acre, for the past 

 eleven years. A small amount of commercial fertilizer has been used, 

 for the first time the present season, where a second crop, as of l)eans 

 or squashes, has been grown. 



