
Report oF THE HoRTICULTURIST OF THE 
About a week after the beans came up they were given a light 
dressing of a mixture of wood ashes and finest bone meal, con- 
taining one measure in volume of the bone meal to five of ashes. 
This was sprinkled near the plants and cultivated in with the © 
Planet Jr. Care was taken during the season not to cultivate the 
beans when they were wet with dew or rain, in order that the 
spores of the anthracnose might not be distributed over the plants 
in this way. The anthracnose causes the spotting, or rusting as 
it is frequently called, of the pods, stems and leaves.* 
The beans were packed for shipment in boxes twelve inches 
long by six inches wide and three inches deep, as shown in plate 
I reproduced from a photograph. These boxes were of three- 
eighths inch stuff, except the ends, which were of half-inch stuff. 
Three-eighths inch strips were also fastened on top of the boxes. 
The boxes were shipped in open crates, each of which held 
twenty-four. 
A second crop of beans was sown after the first crop of lettuce, — 
thus securing a second crop on the same soil. The crop of late 
beans from this ground was fully equal in quantity and quality to 
the crop from seed planted in the spring. The following is a list — 
of the varieties shipped : 
* The manner in which the anthracnose spreads from diseased to healthy | 
foliage and pods is set forth{quite fully in Bulletin 48 of this Station, on ‘‘Some > 

Bean Diseases,”’ page 311.4 




