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long trailing branches, not even blooming in 130 days. Pods from 

 Hawaii are quite flat and broad. 7 to 8 inches long; seeds buff, 

 rhomboid, G to 8 mm. long and broad, flattened and strongly 

 keeled; iris brown. Too late and procumbent to be of much value, 



27850. Iron X Black. (Orton No. 14a4-l-3-l.) 



27S00. Iron X Black. (Orton No. 14a4-l-3-4.) 



27801. Iron X Black. (Orton No. 14aS-5-3-l.) 



These three numbers are from Mr. W. A. Orton and represent 

 selections from hybrids made by him and selected at Monetta. S. C, 

 especially for resistance to wilt and productiveness of seed. Plants 

 from seeds from the 1908 crop at Monetta were also numbered re- 

 spectively 25312, 25310, and 25311. The first three numbers were 

 grown in 1910, the last three in 1909 and 1910. Previous selections 

 by Mr. Orton of this same series, namely, 17384 (Orton 14a2— 1-1 i. 

 17385 (Orton 14a2-2-l), 17389 (Orton 14a5-l-l ), and 17400 

 (Orton 14b5-l-l) have been grown five years. Several of these 

 lots, especially 17384, 173S5, 17400, and 25311, have produced both 

 black seeds and buff seeds, showing that some of the parent seed 

 was heterozygote. Most of the lots are intermediate in habit be- 

 tween Iron and Black, being less procumbent than Black but 

 hardly as erect as Iron. The best of them in 1910 were 25310 and 

 25312. These were not as good as Iron X Whippoorwill or Iron 

 X Blackeye hybrids. 



27SG2. Iron X Large Blackeye. (Orton 17b2-2-l.) 



27863. Iron X Large Blackeye. (Orton 17b2-2-2.) 



27864. Iron X Large Blackeye. (Orton 17b2-2-3.) 



27865. Iron X Large Blackeye. (Orton 17b2-2-4.) 

 27S66. Iron X Large Blackeye. (Orton 17c2-2-2.) 



These five numbers are also hybrids from Mr. W. \. Orton 

 grown at Monetta, S. C. At Arlington Farm in 1910 they were 

 conspicuous in comparison with the other Iron hybrids for their 

 fruitfulness. 27S64 being the most productive of all. They do not 

 have as tall a habit as the Whippoorwill hybrids. 



27867. Iron X WhippoorwUl. (Orton lSbl-2-3.) (See PI. V.) 



27868. Iron X Whippoorwill. (Orton lSbl-2-4.) 



27869. Iron X Whippoorwill. (Orton 18b5-l-l.) 



27870. Iron X Whippoorwill. (Orton 18b5-l-2.) 



27871. Iron X WhippoorwUl. (Orton 18b9-l-l.) 



These five hybrids grown and selected at Monetta, S. C, by Mr. 

 W. A. Orton, were tested only in 1910. Two similar hybrids. 

 25313 (Orton 18b5-l) and 25345 (Orton ISal-l), were grown two 

 years. All have the excellent habit of Whippoorwill and a de- 

 cidedly greater fruitfulness than Iron. Under Arlington Farm 

 conditions they seem decidedly superior in habit to the Iron X 

 Black and Iron X Large Blackeye hybrids. No. 27869 is probably 

 the best of all, but more yield tests are necessary before deciding 

 this positively. 



27887. Asparagus bean. From Malkapur, Berar. India, April. 1910, under the 

 name " Val." Procumbent, very viny. vigorous, the row mass IS to 

 20 inches high, 31 feet broad: trailing branches slender: leaflets 

 large, free from rust, a little affected by white leaf-spot; flowers 

 violet purple ; moderately prolific : pods well filled, little inflated ; 



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