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AGRICULTURAL VARIETIES OF THE COWPEA, ETC. 



Smith's No. 9. — Described in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment Station, 1894 

 (p. 1S3), as follows: 



Recumbent; short stalks; medium-sized leaf; blossom purple; form, 

 kidney; pod, medium, yellow; pea, large, white; yield medium in both peas 

 and vines. — Pinckney Smith. 



Agronomic notes also occur in Bulletin 62 (ser. 2). Louisiana Experiment Sta- 

 tion, 1900. 



Smith's Xo. JJf. — Described in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment Station, 1894 

 (p. 183), as follows: 



Recumbent; trails slightly at ends of vines; moderate-sized leaf and 

 stalk; medium green tint; blossom purple: form, crowder ; pod, small, 

 yellow; pea, small, white; very late; medium producer of both peas and 

 vines. — Pinckney Smith. 



Agronomic notes also occur in Bulletin 62 (ser. 2), Louisiana Experiment Sta- 

 tion, 1900. 



Smith's No. 15. — Described in Bulletin 26. Georgia Experiment Station, 1894 

 (p. 183), as follows: 



Semirecumbent ; does not trail at ends of vines: small leaf and stalk: 

 dark-green tint; vigorous; bloom, white: form, kidney; pod, large, yellow; 

 pea, medium, white; medium early; yield of vines, medium: of peas, light. 

 Mr. Smith thought this the Rice pea, but it is entirely different. 



Southdown. — This name seems to have been published in the 1902 catalogue 

 of T. W. Wood &i Sons, of Richmond, Va. See 17339. Agronomic notes occur in 

 Bulletins 83 and 84, Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, 1904: in Cir- 

 cular 69, Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station. 1903; Bulletin 130, Pennsyl- 

 vania Department of Agriculture, 1904; and in Bulletin of the North Carolina 

 Department of Agriculture, 1910 (vol. 31. no. 6). 



Southdown Mottled. — Same as Southdown. 



Southdown. — This name seems to have been published in the 1902 catalogue 

 in general. It has sometimes been given to special varieties. (See 4316.) 

 Agronomic notes concerning this were published by Orton in Bulletin 17, Bu- 

 reau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1902 (p. 19). and in Bulletin 

 149, Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, 1903. 



Southern Blackeye. — This name appears in the 1908 catalogue of Henry A. 

 Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa. Agronomic notes under the same name have been 

 published in Bulletin 168, Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, 1907 ; and 

 in Bulletin 57, New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. 1898. 



Southern Whippoorwill. — Probably the same as Whippoorwill. This name 

 appears in the 1892 catalogue of William Henry Maule, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Southern Yelloweye. — Agronomic notes occur in Bulletin 57, New Hampshire 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, 1898, and in Bulletin 168, Virginia Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, 1907. Samples of this variety received in 1903, under 

 Agrostology 1494, show a small-seeded Browneye. 



Speckled. — A name very commonly employed as a synonym of Whippoorwill. 

 Descriptive and agronomic notes under this name appear in the following pub- 

 lications : 



Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Annual Report, 1890 (p. 131). 

 Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 11, 1890. 

 Louisiana Experiment Station, Bulletins (ser. 2) 28 (1894), 40 (1896), 

 and 72 (1902). 



North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 98, 1894. 

 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 34, 1895. 

 Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 40, 1896. 



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