will ripen its seed in one hundred 

 days. It was crossed with Golden 

 Gem sweet corn. From this the earli- 

 est yellow sweet corn of good size 

 and shape was selected. It has now 

 been purified and named Cocheco. 

 There have been no extensive tests 

 with the variety as yet. From obser- 

 vations made at Durham, N. H., it 

 would appear to be earlier than any 

 other sweet corn. It is a yellow eight- 

 row variety resembling Golden Ban- 

 tam in appearance, but not quite so 

 good in quality. 



A. F. Yeager 



Green Snap Beans 



Several strains of green snap beans 

 with white seeds have been purified 

 and distributed for trail. One of 

 these, designated No. 57 at present, 

 produces flat pods of unusual length. 

 Seeds to be distributed are from 

 plants that produced stringless pods 

 not less than ten inches in length. 

 A. F. Yeager 



New Early Horticultural 

 Shell Bean Introduced 



Appropriately named Shelleasy, 

 this new variety has pods attractive- 

 ly mottled with red color. It is su- 

 perior to the early-maturing Little- 



ton variety, one of its parents, in 

 this respect. Shelleasy is earlier than 

 its other parent, the now popular 

 Flash variety. Seed stock of the 

 Shelleasy variety is being increased. 

 A. F. Yeager 

 E. M. Meader 



Storing Butternut Squash 



Experiments have been conducted 

 for a number of years on the storage 

 of Butternut squash. Some benefits 

 have resulted from disinfection in- 

 cluding the use of antibiotics, but 

 not enough to justify a recommenda- 

 tion at this time. 



Formaldehyde has shortened the 

 storage period and increased the 

 amount of shriveling. During the 

 past two years, a material known as 

 Latex VL 600, in which the squashes 

 were dipped at harvest, has been 

 beneficial, particularly as regards 

 shriveling. From a warm dry stor- 

 age on January 19, 1951, 68 per 

 cent of the Butternut which had been 

 dipped in 50 per cent VL 600 were 

 still marketable. With a 20 per cent 

 dip, 55 per cent were marketable. 

 Where no dip was used, 42 per cent 

 were marketable, and where formal- 

 dehyde was used, only 22 per cent 

 were marketable. 



A. F. Yeager 



Ornamentals 



Breeding Roses For Winter Hardiness 



A large flowered climbing rose 

 that is hardy without protection in 

 most of New Hampshire and a bush 

 rose of high quality whose branches 

 do not kill back each winter would 

 be desirable for landsciaping. To- 

 ward these ends Betty Bland, a R. 

 Blamla hybrid whose double pink 

 flowers are borne on tall, nearly 

 thornless, red canes of reliable hardi- 

 ness, is being crossed with various 



roses of high quality. The first of the 

 seedlings are being tested this year. 

 E. B. Risley 



James MacFarlane Lilac 



One of the projects with ornament- 

 als at the LIniversity of New Hamp- 

 shire has been to develop better late 

 blooming varieties of lilacs. From 

 this work a beautiful bright pink 

 seedling which blooms two weeks lat- 

 er than ordinary lilacs has been 



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