128 AGRICULTURAL VARIETIES OF THE COWPEA, ETC. 



hay and should be largely tested in the South. At present it is 

 grown mainly in Washington County, Ga., where it perhaps origi- 

 nated. Nos. 0819 and 26495 are other lots from the same source 

 as 25314, and No. 01127, from Mr. J. J. Smith, Utica, Miss., is 

 indistinguishable. 



25345. Iron X Whippoorwill. From Monetta, S. C. (Mr. W. A. Orion's hybrid 

 No. 18a-l-l.) See 27867. 



25369. From Prof. S. M. Tracy, Biloxi, Miss., November, 1908. Rather tall, half 

 bushy, viny, vigorous, the row mass 24 to 36 inches high, 3 feet 

 broad, rather sparse; trailing branches few, 3 to 5 feet long; 

 leaflets large, dark green, held late, free from rust and leaf-spot ; 

 flowers violet purple; pods few, straw colored, somewhat purple 

 tinged, 6 to 8 inches long, the first maturing in 130 days; seeds 

 subreuiform, 5 by 8 mm., buff marbled with brown, the iris olive 

 yellow. Grown one season, 1909. A late variety inferior in habit 

 to Whippoorwill, but with identical seeds. 



25512. Wild Louisiana. From the J. Steckler Seed Co., New Orleans, La., April, 

 1909. " Wild Louisiana " is a trade name given to cowpeas which 

 are naturalized in Louisiana and which volunteer from year to 

 year. In Lafourche Parish they are especially abundant. The 

 commercial seed consists of a mixture of different-colored seed, 

 namely, buff, black, maroon, pink, brown, and marbled, but is prin- 

 cipally buff. When segregated these all breed true. The wild 

 seed is decidedly smaller than most cultivated sorts, but in a num- 

 ber of cases the progeny as grown at Arlington Farm produces seed 

 larger than the original. Another series of these segregates is 

 described under 17405. The buff seed form of 25512 grown two 

 years is indistinguishable from 22054. 



25512A. Seeds black, and the plants are very similar in all respects to Black 

 No. 29292. 



25512B. Plants half bushy, vigorous, the row mass 24 inches high and as broad; 



trailing branches moderately numerous, about 3 feet long; leaflets 

 large, medium dark, immune to rust, but somewhat subject to red 

 leaf-spot; flowers white; moderately prolific. At Arlington Farm, 

 1909, none of the pods fully matured in 132 days, at which time 

 they were killed by frost; in 1910 about 5 per cent of the pods 

 were mature in 102 days. The 1910 pods are 8 to 9 inches long 

 and the seeds oblong, pale brown, 7 to 10 mm. long, somewhat 

 larger and paler than the original seed. This variety is very 

 similar to Brown Coffee 17404, except that it is later and larger. 

 The following lots were identical : 0992, from Mr. J. H. Breedlove, 

 Florence, Ark., 1910; 0993, from Mr. Samuel Wreyford, Waldo, 

 Ark., 1910 ; 0994, from Mr. O. Z. Redson, Clanton, Ala., 1910 ; 0995, 

 from Mrs. H. W. Shomas, De Funiak Springs, Fla., 1910 ; 01385, from 

 North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 1909 — the variety 

 referred to as " Brown Coffee " in Bulletin of the North Carolina 

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



25512C. Half bushy, very viny, vigorous, the row mass 24 inches high, 4 feet 

 broad ; trailing branches many, 3 to 5 feet long ; leaflets held late, 

 free from rust and leaf-spot; flowers pale violet purple; not pro- 

 lific; pods straw colored, 6 to 8 inches long, the first maturing in 



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