VEGETABLE TESTS. 



Part of Bulletin No. 131. 



BY H. P. GLADDEN AND U. P. HEDRICK. 



BUSH BEANS. 



Forty varieties of busli beau were planted May 23 and 24. The plants started 

 well and, when the drouth came on, water was supplied from the irrigating sys- 

 tem. This always available supply of water liept the plants continually growing, 

 and a large crop of pods with general freedom from rust was the result. 



Challenge, D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit. — A small-growing sort and the first to 

 mature edible pods. The pods are of good size, tender and of excellent quality, gol- 

 den yellow in color. The plants are very productive, and maturing so early it is 

 a valuable variety for tlie market or home garden. 



Davis Wax, Alfred Brown & Co., Grand Rapids.— New. Plants of large growth, 

 quite upright in habit; leaflets large, medium green, with slight yellowish tinge. 

 Pods six to seven inches long, flat, straight, light golden color, tender and excel- 

 lent in quality; valuable for vigorous groAvtli of plant and productiveness, for the 

 lai-ge-size, regular pods of handsome appearance and good quality; bean white. 



