62 AMERICAN VARIETIES OF GARDEN BEANS. 



Comparison. — Little known and planted, and although a good green shell bean of 

 similar value and usefulness to Improved Goddard it is inferior to that variety in 

 size of pods and productiveness of plants, but because of much earlier season it may 

 sometimes be more useful to market gardeners. The variety may be aptly called 

 an "Extra Early Improved Goddard." 



History. — Introduced in 1896 by Ford Seed Company, who write that the variety 

 originated with E. D. Gibson, of Ashburnham, Mass., and that it is a cross between 

 Dwarf Horticultural and a wax variety. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are shown on Plate I, 28; green shell pods are similar to 

 Improved Goddard (PI. XIV, 3), differing principally in smaller size and averaging 

 straighter or at least rarely curved back at stem end as is common in Improved 

 Goddard; cross sections of snap pods are similar to Mohawk (PI. V, 17), differing 

 principally in larger size and flatter shape. 



day's leafless medium field. 



Listed by 7 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Johnson & Stokes, 1897. 



Description. — Plant very large, very spreading, of many runners, slender stemmed, 

 green throughout, late as snaps and field beans, long in bearing period, very heavily 

 productive. Leaf small, medium green. Flowers white. Snap pods uniform in 

 size, short, generally much curved back at stem end, very fiat, changing to oval at 

 green shell stage, very square at tip, very light green, very tough, very stringy, of 

 much fiber, of very poor quality, very free from anthracnose. Point of pod short 

 and straight. Green shell pods borne mostly below foliage, never splashed or colored, 

 depressed between seeds on outside of pod, about 4f inches long, and usually con- 

 taining 6 or 7 seeds crowded in pod. Dry pods very easy to thrash. Dry seeds small, 

 short, roundish oval through cross section, rounded or slightly truncate at ends, full 

 or rounded at eye, solid white. 



Comparison. — Strictly a field variety and wholly unsuited for use as snaps or green 

 shell beans. Seeds intermediate in size between the large seeds known to produce 

 trade as marrows and the small seeds known as pea beans. Generally known in the 

 wholesale markets as mediums. 



History. — First listed by seedsmen about 1898 and said to have originated with 

 N. H. Day, of Honeoye Falls, N. Y. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are shown on Plate IV, 6; green shell pods and cross 

 sections resemble Navy Pea» (PI. XIII, 3, and PI. V, 3, respectively), differing 

 principally in being much more curved back at stem end, much flatter, and much 



larger. 



EARLIEST MARKET. 



Listed by 1 seedsman. Seeds tested: Griffith & Turner, 1905, 1906. 



Description. — Plant large, very spreading, with moderate number of runners and 

 drooping branches, somewhat thick stemmed, green throughout, early-intermediate 

 in season, long in bearing, lightly to moderately productive. Leaf medium in size, 

 dark green in color, of smooth and glossy surface. Flowers white. Snap pods variable 

 in size, very long, slightly curved, very flat, medium green, tough, stringy, of much 

 tough fiber, of poor to medium quality, free from anthracnose. Point of pod moder- 

 ately long and curved. Green shell pods borne in large clusters well above foliage, 

 never splashed or appreciably colored, much depressed between seeds, about 6| 

 inches long and usually containing 6 or 7 seeds well separated in pod. Dry pods 

 very easy to thrash. Dry seeds large-medium, proportionally short, flatfish through 

 cross section, generally well rounded at ends, straight or incurved at eye, generally 

 regular in shape, but sometimes slightly bulged out in places, solid white. 



Comparison. — Little known and planted. Most successful at the South. Profit- 

 able only for green shell beans, its pods being too flat, tough, and unattractive for use 



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