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commenced to harden, and others still that were fully ripe. All of 
these plantings vegetated fairly well. The greenest ones, however, 
showed a rather smaller percentage of vegetation than the other sam- 
ples. October 16, we noted that the plants from the seeds that were 
too hard for table use, but not fully ripe, had made the largest growth. 
We made the experiment of planting peas very late to see if they 
would thus escape the attack of the pea-weevil, Bruchus pist. We 
planted June 6, two short rows each of the William the First and Pre- 
_mium Gem varieties. The plants escaped the mildew better than we © 
had anticipated; and matured a fair crop of peas. The yield was a 
little less, and the ripe seed a little more shrivelled than in our earlier 
planting of the same varieties. At date, December 11, these peas 
show very few signs of containing weevils, although the “seed of the 
same varieties from the early plantings is already : swarming with this 
insect, 
We also repeated our experiment of last year, confining a small 
quantity of bisulphide of carbon in a bottle filled with peas, in which 
the weevils were not yet sufficiently developed to be apparent on the 
outside. ‘The result was the same as last year,— no weevils have devel- 
oped at date, December 11. About forty per cent of the peas of the 
same variety that were not thus treated, have either full grown weevils 
in them, or the cavities whence they have come out. 
It would seem that this method of treating peas might be anotat to 
those who grow them for seed. While we have had no experience in 
its application on a commercial scale, we sce nothing to prevent such a 
use of it. If, as soon as the peas are sufficiently dry for sacking, they 
were headed up for a fortnight in tight barrels or bins, into each of 
which was poured a pint or two of bisulphide of carbon, it 1s very 
doubtful if a weevil would ever emerge from them. In our experi- 
ments, we found that this liquid prevented the growth of fungi in 
the pea, even when they were put up quite wet. Hence, there would 
be little if any danger of the pea heating in the barrels or bins to a 
degree sufficient to injure them. Our experiments indicate that their 
power of germination is not diminished by this treatment. It might 
be inj jured, however, if the peas were confined too long. Ge 
The grower of seed peas has the power to nip this evil in the bud, 
but so long as the public is willing to purchase and plant infested 
peas, we can hope for no relief. 
Cross-fertilizing different varieties. 
Last season we cross-fertilized the flowers of several different va- 
rieties of the pea, among them Day’s Karly Sunrise with Dwarf Gray 
Sugar, Champion of England with Culverwell’s Telegraph, and 
Champion of England with American Wonder. The seeds resulting 
from these crosses, which were planted May 12,vegetated rather poorly, 
but the plants were all vigorous, and a few of them were very, pro-’ 
lific, the largest yield from one plant being sixty-one pods. We noted 
that in crossing wrinkled with smooth varieties, peas of both sorts — 
were mixed indiscriminately in the pods, while the pods themselves 
were of the type of either parent, or were sometimes intermediate in. 
form ; but in crossing the common varieties upon the sugar-pea, the 
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