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AGRICULTURAL VARIETIES OF THE COWPEA, ETC. 



White Brown-Hull. — Described in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment Station, 

 1894, as follows : 



Recumbent ; small leaf and stalk, but dark green and vigorous ; blossom — 

 wings white, vexillum purple; form, kidney; pod, medium, dark brown or 

 black; pea, medium, white; medium early; very heavy producer of both 

 vines and peas. 



Descriptive and agronomic notes appear in Bulletin 40, Mississippi Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, 1896. 



White Croicder. — Described in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment Station, 1894 

 (p. 184), as follows: 



Recumbent; small, light-green leaf and stalk; trails at ends of vines; 

 blossom — wings white, vexillum purple; form, crowder; pod, medium, yel- 

 low; pea, large, white, and very ugly, but of excellent quality — richer than 

 Sugar Crowder and almost as sweet; yield of peas, however, light, and of 

 vines, very light; late. 



The name was early published in the American Agriculturist, 1876. (See cita- 

 tion on page 36.) It was still earlier published by Romans in his Natural His- 

 tory of East and West Florida, 1775. Descriptive and agronomic notes appear 

 in Bulletin 34, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1895; in Buleltin 40, 

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

 College Agricultural Experiment Station, 1900; and in Report, Kansas State 

 Board of Agriculture, 1900 (p. 504). 



White Era. — Name published with agronomic notes in Bulletin 74, Okla- 

 homa Agricultural Experiment Station, 1907. According to Prof. L. A. Moor- 

 house, the variety was the New Era and the published name apparently due to 

 an error. 



White Florida. — Descriptive and agronomic notes of this name appear in 

 Bulletin 46, Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station, 1900. 



White Giant. — Described in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment Station, 1894 

 (p. 184), as follows : 



Recumbent; does not trail at ends of vines; short stalk; leaf medium in 

 size and medium green in tint; blossom — wings white, vexillum purple; 

 form, kidney; pod, large and long, yellow; pea, very large, white, wrinkled; 

 very early ; yield in vines, very light ; in peas, light. 



Under the same name agronomic notes appear in Bulletin 40, Mississippi Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, 1896 ; in Bulletin 46, Delaware College Agricul- 

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

 Station, 1900; and in Bulletins 118 and 120, Alabama Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, 1902. See also 17366 and 29299. 



White Grayeye. — A variety is advertised under this name in the 1907 cata- 

 logue of the Amzi Godden Seed Co., Birmingham, Ala. 



White Lady. — This name with descriptive and agronomic notes is mentioned 

 in Annual Report, Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1890. Appar- 

 ently the same as Lady. 



White Prolific. — Variety with black-eyed white seeds concerning which de- 

 scriptive and agronomic notes are published in bulletins of the Louisiana 

 Experiment Station, Nos. 22 and 27 (1889), and (ser. 2) Nos. 8 (1891), 16 

 (1892), and 17 (1892), and in Annual Report, Kansas Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, 1888 (p. 63). 



White Sugar. — This name appears in Bulletin 19 (ser. 2), Louisiana Experi- 

 ment Station, 1892 (p. 541). Said to be a white pea of excellent table qualities 

 but of no value as a forage plant. 



White Taole. — See citation from the American Agriculturist on page 36. 

 Agronomic notes are also published in Bulletin 11, Minnesota Agricultural Ex- 

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