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cannot be considered as duplicates, since they are of different varie- 
ties, which are of varying habit, and mature at different times. 
The fact is worthy of note that in the cases where B gives the 
excess in yield, it is invariably later in maturing than A, and con- 
versely, where A is later in maturing than B, it shows a larger 
ield. 
} It is possible that in some cases the unproductive plants of 1883 
were enfeebled by unnoticed injuries from the pea weevil in the 
seed planted ; and that thus while possessing abundant inherent 
vigor, were restricted in their development. Whatever the causes, 
the results are interesting and suggest further experiment, 
The heredity of finely developed pods, however, has been borne 
out to a striking degree in our trials. We noted in our last report 
that the seeds of two pods of Laxton’s Marvel pea, from the crop of 
1882, that contained eleven peas each, produced among others, two 
pods that likewise contained eleven seeds each, while the seeds from . 
other pods that contained ten peas each produced no pods containing 
more than ten peas. The past season, fifteen peas were planted, 
from the eleven seeded pods of 1883, and the plants resulting, 
twelve in number, bore three pods containing eleven seeds each. 
We have never seen eleven seeded pods in any other variety, and 
we found but two in 1882, from the seed of which we grew another 
two in 1883, and from this we secured three in 1883, 
We will add that this careful selection has given us not only very 
finely developed pods, but also highly productive plants. Thus 
the twelve plants above named bore the past season 339 pods, or at 
the rate of 2,825 pods per hundred plants, a yield that is not equalled 
in our table of varieties. 
Tests of Seeds Planted in Order from the Pods, 
In order to test the influence of the position of the seeds in the pod 
upon the resulting plants, we selected in 1883, thirty pods of Cul- 
verwell’s Telegraph pea, that contained exactly eight peas each. 
We then removed the seed next to the stem in all the pods, placing 
the peas thus secured in one packet; the second ones from the 
stems in another, and so on, numbering the packets successively, 
until all the peas were removed. «On April 28, we planted so many 
of the peas from each packet as were uninjured by the weevil, in a 
row by themselves. The results are shown in the table; 

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