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The maximum number of pods secured from any one plant was 

 eleven, with an average of seven for each plant. 



Table VIII. — Data for project 6-C. 



Variety. 



Planted. 



Flow- 

 ered. 



Service- 

 able. 



Maturity. 



' Average 



pods per 



plant. 



Maxi- 1 

 mum 1 

 pods per 1 

 plant. 





Sept. 2 

 do 



Oct. 2 

 Oct. 6 

 Oct. 7 



Oct. 22 

 Oct. 16 

 Oct. 20 



Nov. 10 



(") 

 Nov. 13 



8 



12 , 







Sept. 9 



7 11 1 









1 



' No harvest secured. 



PROJECT 6-D. COOL SEASON 



Project 6-D consisted of an area of the Henderson's Bush Lima 

 5 by 7 meters, planted in my home garden on September 2, 1916. 

 Fj seed from the original planting was used. There was little 

 trouble from the bacterial disease, and even the lightest bearing 

 plants gave a good yield of pods. The maximum number of 

 pods produced on any one plant was forty-two, with an average 

 production of thirty-five pods for each plant. The experiment 

 shows that this is a good bean for this locality, providing it is 

 grown during the cool season. The Henderson's Bush is an early 

 Lima, and even a small area will give a satisfactory production 

 with ordinary care. The yield secured from this variety was 

 practically the same as that secured under ordinary conditions 

 in the United States. 



PROJECT 6-E. COOL SEASON 



Project 6-E was one of the most satisfactory of the entire 

 set of experiments. 



It consisted of the planting of a plat each of the Challenger 

 Pole Lima and the King of the Garden, the latter also a large 

 Lima of the pole type. Both of these plats were planted on 

 August 16, 1916. The King of the Garden became serviceable 

 on November 21, *and the Challenger on November 23. 



The results of this project were a great contrast to what were 

 secured from the original plantings. All of the plants made a 

 vigorous growth and seemed to adapt themselves to conditions 

 almost as well as the local varieties, which were growing near 

 by. Most of the flowers produced pods that were well filled with 

 large beans conforming in both size and shape to the original seed. 



It wa!S not possible to secure an exact production record from 

 either of these plats owing to the fact that the hills and rows 

 stood the same distance apart as is common with such Limas 

 in the United States, and consequently the vines intertwined so 



