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and in a few black with a brown margin (these probably heter- 

 ozygote). In 1910 both the brown-eyed and black-eyed kinds 

 bred true. 



16167 A. Snberect, half bushy, moderately vigorous, the row mass 14 to 16 

 inches high, 18 inches broad; leaves medium sized, free from rust, 

 much affected by white leaf-spot and somewhat by red leaf-spot; 

 flowers pale violet purple ; moderately prolific ; pods medium well 

 filled, held rather low, straw colored, 6 to 84 inches long, the first 

 maturing in S5 days; seeds subreniform, 6 by 8 to 9 mm., white 

 with a medium-sized black eye. This variety is very similar to 

 Early Blackeye 17335, but not quite identical. 



16168. Same source as preceding, labeled " Caserta." Original seeds identical 

 with original seeds of 16167. None of them were viable in 1906. 



16229. From Mr. Herman Ockels, Bristol, Conn., 1905. Identical with New 

 Era 21088. 



16794. Asparagus bean. From Ffangchow, Chekiang, China, December, 1905. 



Original seeds reddish, reniform, 5 to 6 by 10 mm. No cultural 

 notes. 



16795. From same source as 16794. This lot consists of a maroon adsuki bean 



with a few small maroon cowpeas intermixed. There are no cul- 

 tural notes on the latter. 



16796. Chinese Black. From same source as 16794. Half bushy, vining but 



little, the row forming a mass 18 to 24 inches high, 24 to 30 

 inches broad; trailing branches 2 to 4 feet long; leaflets shed 

 early, much affected by rust ; flowers violet purple ; fairly prolific ; 

 pods held rather low, not well filled, 5 to 8 inches long, straw col- 

 ored, the first maturing in 70 to 75 days ; seeds black, variable, 5 to 

 6 by 6 to 9 mm. An undesirable variety on account of its suscepti- 

 bility to rust. The same variety has been received as 22647, also 

 from Hangchow. and 24189, from Soochow, Kiangsu, China. Ex- 

 cepting for susceptibility to rust, these numbers hardly differ from 

 Early Black 17336. 



16812. Michigan Favorite. From Ogemaw Seed Co., West Branch, Mich., 1905. 

 See 13472. 



17327. Holstein. From the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, through 

 Prof. C. L. Newman, 1903, a cross between Black and Blackeye. 

 Rather low, half bushy, viny, vigorous, the row mass 16 inches 

 high, 2 feet broad; trailing branches coarse, medium in number, 

 green, 2 to 4 feet long; leaflets dark, medium sized, held fairly 

 late, immune to rust, somewhat affected by both red and white 

 leaf-spots; flowers pale violet purple; quite prolific; pods well 

 filled, held medium low, straw colored, often purplish tinged, large, 

 6 to 8 inches long, the first maturing in about 100 days; seeds 

 black-and-white blotched, oblong rhomboid, 7 by 9 mm. ; grown six 

 seasons; not a first-class variety. It has also been tested at 

 Chillicothe, Tex. ; Stillwater, Okla. ; and Audubon Park, La., at 

 none of which places does it show particular merit. No. 22720, 

 a cross of Blackeye and Black, from the Arkansas Agricultural 

 Experiment Station and grown two seasons, is indistinguishable 

 from this. No. 17425A, out of Watson 17425, from the Arkansas 

 Agricultural Experiment Station in 1903, grown three seasons, is 

 precisely identical. No 22725, from the South Carolina Agricul- 



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