nels. Well-filled pods of medium size give much better satis- 
faction in both yield and quality of product. Xot alone are the 
kernels of the Hawaiian-grown nut large and heavy, but also is 
the tonnage yield and quality high. 
The following are the average yields per plant of sound, 
well-matured nuts taken from a large number of select plants 
used for breeding purposes: Spanish, 145 ; Bunch Jumbo, 184; 
Running Jumbo, 208; Virginia Creeping, 219; and Virginia 
Bunch, a sport selected from among the first generation of im- 
ported Virginia Creeping, 190. Numerous selections of Vir- 
ginia Creeping having yielded 250 and more sound nuts. The 
green weight of such plants has averaged something over 10 
pounds each, and the cured pods have run about 250 seeds per 
pound as against 325 pods per pound of the imported stock. 
.V single plant of the sport, Bunch Virginia, has yielded 280 
nuts, weighing one pound and three ounces. 
Plate II illustrates a specimen plant of each of the five 
varieties considered in this bulletin and gives some idea of their 
heavy fruiting under favorable conditions. Taken one season 
with another, the Virginia Bunch, Virginia Creeping and Span- 
ish have given the most uniformly good results from Station 
plantings, although in one or two instances the Jumbo type 
appears to have out-yielded either of the other sorts. 
Virile the Jumbo and Virginia types resemble each other 
very closely in habit of growth and size and shape of nuts, the 
Spanish type is entirely distinct. Instead of the large, rank 
growth of foliage, and large nuts which characterize the other 
varieties, the Spanish is a very much smaller and compact 
grower, bearing practically all its small, well-shaped and closelv- 
filled pods in a compact cluster centered about the tap root. 
This is much less common in the bunch variety of either the 
Virginia or Jumbo type, but totally absent in the running varie- 
ties, in which the peanuts are distributed along the entire length 
of the recumbent stems. 
In general, it may be said that the nuts of the bunch varie- 
ties are much easier harvested than in the running kinds, and 
