NAMES APPLIED TO VARIETIES OF COWPEAS. 67 



Speckled Crowder. — Described in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment Station 

 1894 (p. 183), as follows: 



Recumbent, lies quite flat; small leaf and stalks of light-green tint; 

 blossoms, purple; they close very early in the morning; form, of course, 

 crowder ; pod, medium, yellow ; pea, large, with brown speckles on gray 

 ground ; very late ; yield of vines, very light ; of peas, heavy. 



Descriptive or agronomic notes under the same name appear in Bulletin 40, 

 Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, 1896 ; in Bulletin 46, Delaware 

 College Agricultural Experiment Station, 1900; in Bulletin 62 (ser. 2), Louisiana 

 Experiment Station, 1900 ; and in Annual Report, Arkansas Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, 1890 (p. 131). 



Speckled Java. — See quotation on page 36. Probably the same as Taylor. 

 See 17412. 



Speckled Rio. — A name locally used in parts of South Carolina for the Brab- 

 ham. 



Speckled Whippoorwill. — Probably the same as Whippoorwill. See quotation 

 on page 36. 



Speth. — Agronomic notes under this name are given in Bulletin 23, Georgia 

 Experiment Station, 1893 (p. 105). No other information concerning this 

 variety has been obtainable. 



Sport.— See 17427. 



Stetvart. — Described in Bulletin 98, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. 1894 (p. 142), as follows: 



Seeds blotched brown and white ; grew fairly, herbage rather scant ; 

 pods ripened after Whippoorwill. 



Agronomic notes also occur in Annual Report, Delaware College Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, 1892 (p. 32), and in Bulletin 61, Cornell University Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, 1893 (p. 335). 



Sugar. — This name is mentioned in the Farmers' Register, 1835 (vol. 2, p. 

 752). See citation under "Indian." The name also appears with descriptive 

 notes in Bulletin 40, Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, 1896, as fol- 

 lows : "Spherical; white; small seed; half trailing; late." 



Sugar Crowder. — Described in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment Station, 

 1894 (p. 183), as follows: 



Recumbent ; small leaf and stalk ; medium green ; twists and trails at 

 ends of vines ; blossom — wings white, vexillum purple ; form, crowder ; pod, 

 small, yellow; pea, small, white; quality, rich and sweet; the best table 

 pea of all — so superior that birds will select it from all the other va- 

 rieties ; very late ; yield of vines, light ; of peas, heavy. 



Descriptive and agronomic notes also occur in Bulletin 46, Delaware College 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, 1900. Agronomic notes appear in Bulletin 28 

 (ser. 2), Louisiana Experiment Station, 1894: See also citation from the 

 American Agriculturist on page 36. 



Stranger. — Mentioned in the Agricultural Gazette, New South Wales, Octo- 

 ber 2, 1906, as " a promising new variety." The seeds are buff-and-white 

 blotched. 



Taylor.— See 17342. 



Taylor's Prolific. — Described in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment Station, 

 1894 (p. 183), as follows: 



Semirecumbent ; small leaf and stalk; dark green and pretty: twists, 

 but does not trail at ends of vines ; pure white blossom ; form, kidney ; pod, 

 medium, yellow ; pea, medium, white ; yield of vines, light ; of peas, medium. 



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