ll al “@ hoe fee, = . ~~ 2% ig 
i i >. wh ¥ a ve a 
Me ae th tee thet, See Tyg. 
. oe = a ‘ 
236 | [ASSEMBLY 
It will be noticed that the per cent of vegetation, the yields of 
pods and of peas is slightly highest in the plants from the seeds next 
the stem, a difference which may be accidental. In order to inten- 
sify, if possible, whatever influence the position of the peas in the 
pod may have upon the progeny, we have gathered for next year’s 
planting the seed next the stem from selected pods from row No. 1, 
the second trom the stem in row No. 2, the third in No. 3, and so on 
to the last. 
Fertilizer Trials. 
We made experiments with various fertilizers upon the pea, choos- 
ing for the purpose a plat of ground, that had received no fertilizer 
of any kind since the establishment of the Station. — 
In order to test the influence of well-rotted stable manure upon 
the earliness and productiveness of the pea, we manured one row 
twelve feet long, of the William the First variety very heavily, leaving 
an adjacent row unmanured. Strange to say, the manure had no 
visible effect either upon the productiveness or earliness of the 
ield. 
: We also fertilized one row of the same length, with each of the 
following : 
1st. One-fourth pound of sulphate of iron in solution. 
2nd. The same with two pounds superphosphate. 
3rd. Two pounds superphosphate, alone. 
4th. Three pounds gypsum, and | 
5th. Three pounds gypsum, and one pound common salt. 
The differences in earliness or yield was not sufficiently marked 
in any case, so that it could be sately ascribed to the fertilizer used. 
Vegetation of Weevil-eaten Peas. 
The results obtained with different tests of weevil-eaten peas vary 
much. Ina garden test the past season, with Carter’s First Crop 
pea, but two per cent of those injured by the weevil vegetated, while 
sixty per cent of the sound peas vegetated. 
Ltesults of Crossfertilization. 
Out of many crosses made in 1883, the results of two are worthy 
of note, viz.,a wrinkled pea, a cross of American Wonder fertilized 
with Earliest of All, that formed a pod of edible size in fifty-two 
days (as early as the earliest smooth pea on trial) ; and a second, also 
wrinkled, a cross of Bliss’ A. No. 2, fertilized with Laxton’s Marvel, 
that gave the phenomenal yield of ninety pods on one plant, aver- 
aging four and a fourth peas per pod, and this with only ordinary 
cultivation. 
SYNONYMS. 
In onr report for 1883, we published an abstract of our notes to 
show that the peas tested under the names Philadelphia Extra 
Early (Thor. 1883), Cleveland’s First and Best (Clev. 1883), Ferry’s 
er 
