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A group of "Station Yellow" crossed with "Dwarf Stone" ran from 

 the dark yellow green quickly into the orange, they being a pure dark 

 orange for one day and then gradually took on red until they Ijeeame 

 a dark orange-red-orange, 42 (ORO/D) at maturity. 



In a general way, the four scales may te expressed as follows : 



1. Green. .Greenish-white. .Yellowish-white. ."White? "Ivory Ball." 



2. Green. .Greenish-white. .Yellow-orange. . ..Orange-red "Honor Bright." 



3. Green. .Greenish-white. .Yellow-orange. . ..Orange-red-orange. . . "Grandus." 



4. Green. .Greenish-yellow. .Orange Orange-red-orange "8tone." 



5. Green. .Greenish-yellow. .Orange Orange-red "Ponderosa." 



G. Green. .Greenish-yellow. .Yellow Yellow-orange. . .."Golden Queen." 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BEANS. 



As a result of "handworking" the flowers among the commercial 

 varieties, seventy pods were obtained during the early part of the 

 season. Seeds from all of these were planted in July and all produced 

 plants, with two exceptions. The absence of killing frosts until near 

 to November 1st favored this summer planting and a majority ma- 

 tured seeds, and nearly all gave evidence of being crosses. 



A block of bush beans was planted early in June with a dozen 

 white-seeded sorts, and among these several pods were harvested as 

 results from cross-pollination. Several probable crosses have also 

 been secured between the three varieties (Nos. 155, 158 and 159) 

 kindly sent by Mr. W. W. Tracy, Jr., and planted late in June. 



A cross of the "Scarlet Runner" upon bush beans has been secured 

 in several instances and promises to be of unusual interest. In this 

 instance the blood of two species is brought together, namely, that of 

 Phaseolus multiflorus and P. vulgaris. These hybrids have been 

 grown only for midsummer planting, and a full trial of their power is 

 reserved for next year. Thus far they have all showed a strong 

 tendency to twine with flowers of a quite uniform pink, inclining 

 toward salmon, in place of the bright red ("scarlet") of the male 

 parent. 



Like the "Scarlet Runner," its hybrids are profuse bloomers and 

 quite slow to produce pods and form seeds. Such pods as were formed 

 were much smaller than those of the male parent and lacked the 

 roughness of the surface characteristic of the parent. Very late in 

 the season a few pods from four plants were obtained, and these con- 



