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AGRICULTURAL VARIETIES OF THE COWPEA, ETC. 



Chocolate. — Described in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment Station, L894 

 (p. 181), as follows: 



Semirecumbent ; vigorous; medium leaf and stalk: blossom — wings white, 

 vexillum purple; form, kidney; pod, medium yellow; pea, medium brown 

 (or chocolate), mottled on white ground, wrinkled; very early; light 

 yielder of vines; moderate producer of peas. 



Descriptive and agronomic notes also occur in Bulletins 53 (1898) and 02 

 (1900), series 2, Louisiana Experiment Station; and in Bulletin 40, Mississippi 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, 1896. 

 Chola.— See Choli, also 21296. 



Choli. — A vernacular name employed in India for both the catjang and the 

 cowpea. Variant spellings of this word are Chauli, Chola, Chowall, Chowlee, 

 and Chavali. See 17377. 



Chowder. — Mentioned without description in Bulletin 160, Kansas Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, 1909. 



Chowlee.— See Choli, also 21296. 



Claret-Colored Crowder. — Described in Farmers' Register, 1835 (vol. 2, no. 12, 

 p. 752), as follows: 



Possesses all the most valuable qualities of the cow or Yeatman pea, 

 together with such a degree of hardiness that many of them will remain 

 in the ground all winter and come up in the following spring. Of this fact 

 I was assured by the North Carolina gentleman who gave them to me. 

 He also stated that they were deemed more valuable in that State — at 

 least in the eastern part of it — than any other Indian pea ; so much, indeed, 

 that in renting out land, it was a common stipulation that the whole of 

 the corn land should be planted with these peas, from a general belief that, 

 if the vines were all left on the ground it might be cultivated every year 

 without being impoverished. 



Clay. — The first published reference to a variety under this name seems to be 

 in Transactions of the Virginia State Agricultural Society, 1853 (vol. 1, p. 173), 

 as follows: 



The Clay or Gray pea is a gray or light yellow, a good bearer, and yields 

 heavy vines. It is a soft pea, and for this reason is preferred by stock and 

 hogs to the coarser varieties, such as Tory, etc. Not so forward as the 

 Shinney pea, nor will it bear so late. Is a heavy pea. Preferred for stock 

 and perhaps more generally cultivated than any other variety. Will not bear 

 exposure to bad weather. Is liable to be stained and turned dark by wet. 



See also 17340. 



Claybank. — This name, which is perhaps merely an amplification of the 

 word " Clay," has been published by a number of writers. In the American 

 Agriculturist, 1876 (vol. 35, p. 139), it is described as "drab, usually dark at 

 the eye." In Bulletin 146, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 1897 (p. 251), brief agronomic notes are given. 



Clay Colored. — This name is probably merely an amplification of the name 

 Clay. Published in Bulletin 12, Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 1890. 



Clovin, — Name with very brief description published in The Cowpea, a pub- 

 lication of the North Carolina Horticultural Society, issued about 1906. It is 

 perhaps merely a misprint of Colvin. 



Coffee. — The following description occurs in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment 

 Station, 1894 (p. 181) : 



Tall, upright grower, does not run at all ; heavy stalk ; leaf, medium and 

 dark green; form, kidney; pod, large, yellow; pea. medium, brown mottled, 

 on white ground ; medium early ; yield of vines, large ; of peas, very large. 



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