NAMES APPLIED TO VARIETIES OF COWPEAS. 



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Afghania. — A vernacular name for a catjang, Agrostology No. 1628, obtained 

 from the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, India. 



Algerian. — Mentioned, without description, in Bulletin 6, New Mexico Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, 1892. 



Ankok.— See 5222. 



Argen Everbearing. — A variety grown by Mr. Kline O. Yarn, Fort Meade, 

 Fla., said to have been introduced from Argentina and to be exceptionally 

 valuable (Southern Planter, Mar. 19, 1904). Efforts to obtain seed of this 

 variety have been without success. 



Arkansas. — Mentioned, without description, in Bulletin 81, Delaware College 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, 1908. 



Ashy. — Said to be a prolific bunch variety with buff-colored seeds, and pods 

 standing erect above the foliage and so early that two crops can be grown in 

 Louisiana in the same season. (Farm and Ranch, Natchitoches, La., Feb. 16, 

 1907.) Efforts to obtain seed of this variety have been unavailing. The descrip- 

 tion points strongly to its being a catjang. 



Asparagus bean. — The common name applied to Vigna sesquipedalis. 



Ayrshire. — See 17409. 



Backwoods. — Agronomic notes, but no description, are given on the variety 

 under this name in Bulletin 62, series 2, Louisiana Experiment Station, 1900, 

 page 466. Perhaps the same as Pea of the Backwoods. 



Barbati. — One of the common vernacular names applied to catjangs or cow- 

 peas in India ; also spelled Burbuti, Burbudi, and Burbadi. 



Bass. — A name employed by some of the early writers for a variety with red 

 seeds. It is described by Edmund Ruffin (Essays and Notes on Agriculture, 

 1855, p. 352) as follows: 



The Bass (red) pea is used extensively on the lower Roanoke, in North 

 Carolina, and preferred to the buff pea, because of its being much less 

 liable to rot after ripening, and many of the seeds will remain on and in 

 the ground (trodden down by grazing stock), during all the winter in 

 North Carolina, and will germinate in the following spring. This quality 

 (of other kinds as well as of this pea) is valuable for a mere forage crop; 

 but is of less account, if not objectionable, for a manuring crop for wheat, 

 when the peas are plowed under in September or October. The Bass pea 

 is also one of the best vine bearers — but too late in maturing for this region. 



Also mentioned in Transactions of the Virginia State Agricultural Society, 1853 

 (vol. 1, p. 173), as the Red, Tory, or Bass pea. Apparently, this variety is 

 closely similar to Red Ripper, 17350. 



Bhadela. — A vernacular name used in India. See 17378. 



Big Hush. — Brief agronomic and descriptive notes published in Bulletin 46, 

 Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station, 1900 (p. 20), refer to this 

 variety as follows: 



" Late ; good growth of vine ; loses leaves early." 



Black. — A name generally applied to any black-seeded noncrowder variety. 

 See 29292. 



Black and White. — Described in Bulletin 34, Texas Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, 1895 (p. 582), as follows: 



A black-and-white speckled variety; vine a vigorous grower, running low 

 and near the ground ; pods medium length, imperfectly filled with small 

 peas ; yield per acre, 8.6 bushels. 



In Bulletin 40, Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, 1896, the following 

 descriptive note is given : " Small seed ; habit, trailing ; early." It is also 

 mentioned, without description, in Bulletin 62, series 2, Louisiana Experiment 

 Station, 1900 (p. 466). This is probably much the same as Holstein, 17327. 

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