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showed that the inoculated fruits quickly decayed. The experiment 
was repeated with other specimens, the decaying matter being inserted 
at various points on the surface, always with the same result in the 
varieties attacked by the diseas2. In every instance the decay com- 
menced at the inoculated point. On October 10, the two fruits that 
were incised August 28, but not inoculated, were still hanging on the 
plant ripe, but entirely sound, while no trace of the inoculated two 
could be found. 
The Turk’s Cap or Turban variety seemed proof against the decay, 
even when inoculated. ‘ 
These facts suggest that the tomato rot may result from a constitu- 
tional weakness in certain varieties, rendering them subject to attack 
by a fungus which less improved varieties, like the ‘lurk’s Cap and 
Cherry tomatoes, are able to resist. 
We were very favorably impressed with the Mayflower variety, which 
originated, in the summer of 1878, with Mr. F. H. Hosford, of Char- 
lotte, Vt., from a claimed cross between the Karly Acme and Lester’s 
Perfected. The plants were very vigorous, continuing fresh and green 
until destroyed by frost. The fruit, which is of a bright, glossy, red 
color, ripened two days earlier, and was somewhat larger than that 
of the Karly Acme. In form it is globular, slightly flattened and 
entirely smooth. ‘The flesh is solid and unusually free from seeds (see 
table), and in flavor is equal to any of the others. 
THE PRA. 
Our work with the pea was confined chiefly to a comparative test of 
thirty-one varieties. ‘The soil, which was fall-plowed, received no 
manure. Previous to planting, it was cultivated thoroughly, after 
which it was pulverized and leveled with the smoothing-harrow and 
‘‘plank-drag.” The peas were distributed in single rows, four feet 
apart, the seeds three inches apart, covered two and a half inches 
deep. Accuracy was secured in the distance and depth of planting 
by the help of a simple instrument devised for the purpose. The 
taller varieties were well “bushed,” and the weeds were kept down 
with the hoe. 
The American Wonder and Extra Early Dwarf Tom Thumb varie- 
ties grew under somewhat different conditions from the others, being 
planted thirty-two days earlier, on soil manured and plowed in the 
spring. The distance and depth of planting were, however, the same. 
The statistics noted appear in the following table: 
