38 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 



BEAN. 

 Thorbcrx's Prolific Market. 



A foreign type of bean obtained by J. M. Thorburn & Co. from 

 Vienna, Austria, and first introduced by them in 1894. 



It is claimed by the introducers to he an enormously productive 

 variety, bearing its pods in thick clusters of 35 to 40 pods to a plant, 

 and exceedingly vigorous, healthy, and remarkably rust proof. The 

 pods are light green in color, very long and perfectly round in shape, 

 solid fleshed, and of a very soft and marrowy texture. The vines are 

 very large and erect in habit: the leaves, very dark: seeds, black; sea- 

 son, late. It is claimed by the originators that for productiveness, 

 solidity of flesh, and roundness of pod it excels any variety now in 

 cultivation. 



Seed furnished by J. M. Thorburn & Co., New Y<>rk. 



TOMATO. 



Sua ess. 



Originated in 1897 by M. M. Miesse, a market gardener and tomato 

 specialist of Lancaster. Ohio. Introduced in 1900 by Wm. Henry 

 Maule under the name of "Maule's 1900." and in the following year 



called "Success." 



This is an excellent, very large, smooth, deep scarlet variety, similar 

 to many other recently introduced varieties, such as Noble, Century, 

 and Marvel, but said to be superior to them in productiveness, smooth- 

 ness of fruit, and to be more free from any hard or green core. The 

 variety does undoubtedly combine these qualities to a very large 

 degree, and. as claimed, is of excellent quality and a splendid sort for 

 either the canner. trucker, or private gardener. The foliage is of the 

 common large-leaved kind, and the vines are strong and vigorous. 

 The season is second early. The fruits are a deep flat globe shape, or 

 as nearly globular in form as it is possible to obtain a large tomato. 



Seed furnished by M. M. Miesse&Son, Lancaster, Ohio. 



RADISH. 



GLASS. 



A variety introduced by F. Barteldes & Co. and Northrup, King & 

 Co., as claimed, about ten years ago, the former obtaining his seed 

 from a Denver (Colo.) market gardener and the latter from Cincinnati 

 market gardeners. The variety is considered by many to be identical 

 with the Cincinnati Market and Long Scarlet Short Top varieties, but 

 a few claim that it is not quite so long and that it possesses to a degree 

 greater than Long Scarlet Short Top the peculiar transparency which 

 gives rise to its name. 



