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27545. Unknown, From T. W. Wood & Sous, Richmond, Va., April, 1910. 



Vigorous, very viuy, the row mass 2 to 2i feet high, 3 to 3i feet 

 broad; trailing branches 4 to 6 feet long; leaflets rather large, 

 undulate, immune to rust but somewhat subject to red leaf-spot ; 

 flowers violet purple; moderately prolific; pods well filled, held 

 medium high, straw colored, 6 to 8 inches long, the first maturing 

 in about 110 days; seeds buff, rhomboid, rather sharply keeled; 

 iris olive. This variety corresponds with the common conception 

 of Unknown in being much later than Clay and more vigorous. As 

 grown under this number, it is virtually identical in habit with 

 25512 and 22054, but has different seeds. This number is much 

 later and larger than 1346S, which has been grown as Unknown 

 at Arlington Farm for eight years. Out of 142 lots of- buff-colored 

 cowpeas with subreniform seeds from nearly as many American 

 sources in 1909, 62 are scarcely distinguishable from 27545. It 

 is apparently the commonest buff-seeded cowpea grown in the 

 Southern States. 



27546. From T. W. Wood & Sons, Richmond, Va., April, 1910, as " Red Ripper." 



No cultural notes. 



27547. Xcu? Era. From T. W. Wood & Sons, Richmond, Va., April, 1910. See 



21088. 



2754S. Ram's-Hom Blackcyc. From T. W. Wood & Sons, Richmond, Va., April, 

 1910. Suberect, half bushy, a little viny, moderately vigorous, 

 the row mass 24 inches high, 3 feet broad; trailing branches green, 

 few ; leaves medium sized, shed early, free from rust, much affected 

 by red leaf-spot ; flowers pale violet purple ; prolific ; pods well 

 filled, held moderately high, straw colored, 6 to 8 inches long, the 

 first maturing in about 80 days, and all maturing within 100 days ; 

 seeds plump, siibreniform, 7 by 10 mm., transversely wrinkled, 

 white with a black eye. Identical with this variety is 0629, from 

 Mr. J. W. Trinkle, Madison, Ind., grown three seasons. It is taller 

 and better than 22050 and a few days later. The seed of 27548 

 looks exactly like California Blackeye as grown in California, and 

 is perhaps the same. (See PI. V.) 



27549. Unknown Black. From T. W. Wood & Sons, Richmond, Va., April, 1909. 



Very vigorous and viny, somewhat procumbent, the row mass 2 feet 

 high, 3 i feet broad; trailing branches green, 3 to 5 feet long; 

 leaves medium sized, held late, free from rust, a little affected by 

 red leaf-spot ; flowers violet purple ; moderately prolific ; pods well 

 filled, held medium high, straw colored, 7 to 10 inches long, the 

 first maturing in about 90 days; seeds oblong rhomboid, black, 6 

 by 9 mm. This is a vigorous, rather late, black-seeded variety, 

 considerably larger and later than ordinary Black. In habit it is 

 quite like most other blacks. 



27586. Wilcox. From Honolulu, Hawaii, April, 1910, presented by Mr. F. G. 

 Krauss, who writes: 



A cowpea which, so far as I have been able to determine, 

 originated in our trials of 1907, either as a mutant or rogue. As 

 it does not resemble any of the half dozen varieties we have been 

 growing in recent years I do not think it is a hybrid. It is far 

 ahead of anything we have grown in cowpeas. In the fully de- 

 veloped form before drying, the pods are a beautiful deep crimson. 



As grown at " Arlington Farm, 1910, this was a procumbent 

 sprawling variety, the row mass 1 foot deep, 3 feet broad, with 



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