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POLE VARIETIES. 



Creaseback, from Landreth, is a quick -growing sort, and reached edible maturity 

 among the first. The runners were of medium length and thickly set with long, dark 

 green, glossy, tender pods. 



July Runner, sent out by fJ. M. Thorburn & Co., is another quick maturing sort. 

 The vines are long and productive: pods are light green, stringless, tender, and con- 

 tain six to eight white, kidney-shaped beans. 



King of the Garden, received from Holmes, were tall, coarse, rank growers. The 

 runners were very long and yielded only a few large pods of coarse quality. 



Leviathan. Henderson, is six to eight days earlier than a majority of the limas; pods 

 are short, light green, and contain two to three flat, tender beans. Desirable as a 

 quick growing, early sort. 



Long Podded Ten Weeks, Rawson, is a vigorous grower. The pods are long. Hat, 

 broad and tough, but the beans are flat, white and tender, and are desirable for 

 shelled beans. 



Wliite Dwarf, from D. !M. Ferry & Co., is a bushy growing sort with short runners : 

 pods are numerous, long and broad; beans long, broad, flat, and have a delightful 

 flavor. Desirable. 



4352, 4853, 4970, 4973, 4974 and 4980 are varieties of beans sent here by the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture for testing. 



4352 has an upright, stocky habit. The stalk is square, averaging about two feet 

 in height : foliage smooth ; jjods are situated at the base of the leaf stalks, large, 

 coarse, and four to six inches long, upright, smooth and pointed. The beans failed to 

 set except in a very few of the lower pods, which contained one large, flat, brown 

 bean. 



4353 strongly resembled the former, except that the pods were shorter and the 

 beans filled out better. The beans have a thick, tough outer skin, that can be removed 

 easily, leaving a very tender, sweet, pea-flavored bean that when cooked made a 

 very palatable soup. They are called Horse beans, and by those familiar with their 

 use are considered an excellent bean. 



4970 was a tall, pole variety, with runners six to eight feet in length. The foliage 

 resembled that of lima beans, and the vines were thickly set with bright purple blossoms, 

 but failed to develop any seed pods. 



4973 formed very vigorous plants, sending out long, slender runners. The foliage 

 was much like the lima bean, but the pods were numerous, small, round, yellow, tender 

 and sappy, averaging about twenty-four inches in length, and were filled with small, 

 round, chocolate-colored beans. 



4974 strongly resembled 4973, except that the pods were greenish red. The foliage is 

 nearly identical with that of Henderson's Bush Lima. 



49S0 was a vigorous growing Aariety of cow pea and made a tall, bushy growth. 

 They are often grown and plowed under as a green manure. 



