NAMES APPLIED TO VARIETIES OF COWPEAS. 63 



Regular Lady. — This name is mentioned in Bulletin 28 (ser. 2), Louisiana 

 Experiment Station, 1S94 (p. 974). Perhaps synonymous with Lady. 



Rice. — Described in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment Station, 1894 (p. 1S2), 

 as follows : 



Semirecumbeut ; small, light-green leaf and stalk; trails at end of vines; 

 snow-white bloom; form, kidney; pod small, yellow; pea small, white; 

 very late; yield of vines, medium; of peas, heavy. 



In Bulletin 133, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 189G (p. 

 342), additional descriptive notes occur as follows: 



Pea small, oval, white, semitranslucent, resembling rice; vine creeping; 

 very vigorous grower ; stem 4 to 8 feet long ; leaves small to medium ; 

 matures in medium season, with us planted May 1, ripe October 10; yield 

 of vines moderate, of seeds heavy. The table quality of this pea is con- 

 sidered superior to that of any other of the cowpea family. It deserves 

 a more extended trial. The Station has a small supply for distribution to 

 citizens of the State in spring of 1897. 



Descriptive or agronomic notes also occur in Bulletin 40, Mississippi Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, 1896; in Bulletin 34, Texas Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, 1895 ; and in Bulletin 16S, Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 1907. 



Ross White. — Agronomic notes occur in Bulletin 118, Alabama Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, 1902 (p. 13). 



Running Speckled. — This name is published in the 1908 catalogue of the 

 N. L. Willet Seed Co., Augusta, Ga. It is the same variety which has since 

 been called Peerless. 



Saddleback. — Described in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment Station, 1894 

 (p. 182), as follows: 



Recumbent ; leaf and stalk small, but dark green ; form, kidney ; pod 

 medium, purplish black ; pea small, with dark red mottles on white 

 ground, wrinkled; early; yield light in both peas and vines. 



Descriptive or agronomic notes also occur in Bulletin 40, Mississippi Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, 1896; in Bulletin 46, Delaware College Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, 1900; and in Bulletins 53 (ser. 2), 1898, and 62 (ser. 2), 

 1900, Louisiana Experiment Station. 



Sand. — This name appears in the 1908 catalogue of Henry A. Dreer, Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., as a synonym of Southern Blackeye. 



Sanjak sasage. — See 4974. 



Sherman's Northern Prolific. — Grown for three years under the designation 

 Agrostology 1213 by Mr. C. R. Ball, who reached the conclusion that it is 

 identical with Warren's Extra Early. 



Shinney, or Shinny. — A name commonly employed as a synonym of Whip- 

 poorwill. The first reference in literature seems to be in Transactions of the 

 Virginia State Agricultural Society, 1853 (vol. 1, p. 173), as follows: 



Most valuable variety ; a speckled pea ; may be a cross between the 

 Gray or Clay pea and the Blackeye. Very prolific, yielding on favorite 

 soil, with good seasons, as much as fifty to one. Produces very heavy 

 crop of vines. Matures early and continues to bear until frost. The pea 

 is large and heavy, of delicate flavor, and excellent on the table. Hogs 

 prefer it to the Tory, or Bass. Will not bear exposure to the winter; 

 liable to mold and sprout after prolonged wet, followed by warm weather ; 

 however, equally hardy with the Gray or Clay pea and other varieties. 

 Will not bear exposure to the winter like the Tory, or Bass, and the 

 Black. 



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