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KVKUnEARING. 



Listed by 1 seedsman. Seeds tested: Burpee, 1900. 1001; Denison, 190:^,; Thur- 

 burn, 1901, 1902, 1905, 190(). 



Description. — Plant large, very spreading, low growing, almost creeping in habit, 

 of many runnei-s. thick stemmed, green throughout, very late, very long in bearing, 

 heavily productive. Leaf medium in size, very dark gi'een in color. Flowers white. 

 Snap jxkIs varying greatly in size, long, curved, flat, medium green in color, exceed- 

 ingly tough and stringy, of much hard iiher, of very poor quality, very free from an- 

 thracnose. Point of pod medium in length and either straight or slightly curved. 

 Green shell pods generally borne on nuuierous thick stems high al.)ove foliage, never 

 splashed or appreciably colored, very mmli depressed on outside between seeds, 

 (>ften vacant seeded, about b} inched long, and usually containing 5 or seeds some- 

 what separated in \wd. Dry pods very easy to thrash. Dry seeds medium in size 

 and length, flatfish oval through cross section, mostly well rounded at ends, incurved 

 at eye, solid white. 



Comparison. — This very unusual and little ])lanted variety seems to be of but 

 limited value for this country, but in Franc-e, where snap pods are gathered very young 

 and undersized, it may be one of the best garden varieties. Its pods consist of almost 

 as much fiber as any variety cultivated in America and are decidedly too tough as 

 snaps for American conditions, while for green sh(41 l)eans it is too narrow podded, 

 too irregular in shape, and too unattractive for a profitable market variety. Its use, 

 if any, seems to be for dry beans, as its seeds are pure white and its plants productive 

 in right locations. The different stocks seem to vary greatly in size, shape, and season, 

 and princi]);vlly for this reason it has not l)een much grown, even for dry beans. Quite 

 different from other American sorts, but perhaps as much like Earliest Market as any, 

 the pods differing principally in being smaller, narrower, more curved, deeper de- 

 pressed lietween seeds, and more uneven and ill shaped, while vines are coareer and 

 more spreading, with fruit spurs more numerous and projecting more prominently 

 above foliage. 



History. — Introduced in 1899 by W. Atlee Burpee & Co., who describe it as of 

 French origin. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are shown on Plate IV, 9; snap pods and cross section of 

 same are similar to Lightning (PI. XIII, 2, and PI. V, 20, respectively), differing prin- 

 cipally in color, and longer, narrower pods, approaching more the shape of the flat- 

 podded tj-pe of Southern Prolific (PL XVI, 1). 



EXTRA EARLY REFUGEE. 



Listed by 113 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Burpee, 1901; Ferry, 1899-1901, 1903; 

 Keeney, 1904, 1906; Rawson, 1901; Rice, 1906; Rogers, 1904, 1905; Thorbiu-n, 1901, 

 1902; Vaughan, 1901. 



Description. — Plant medium in size, very erect, without runners or spreading 

 branches, very compact, of well-rounded form, somewhat thick stemmed, green 

 throughout, early, of moderate bearing period, heavily to moderately productive. 

 Leaf medium in size, light green in color, nan-ow across leaflets. Flowers pink. 

 Snap pods uniform in size, of medium length, curved, round through cross section, 

 deeply creasebacked, light green, brittle, stringy, of inappreciable fiber, of good 

 quality, fairly free from anthracnose. Point of pod long and ciu'ved. Green shell 

 pods borne both above and below foliage, sparingly splashed with light purple, quite 

 full on outside between seeds, about 5 inches long, and usiially containing 5 or 6 seeds 

 crowded in pod. Dry pods moderately hard to thrash. Dry seeds of medium size, 

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