A84. NEW JEESEY AGEICULTUEAL COLLEGE 



Novelties in Bush Beans. 



A few sorts of beans were grown this season that are not in previous 

 lists of our experiments from No. 1 up to No. 149. The following 

 notes are given^ with the list number assigned to each : 



Xo. 149. "Burpee's White Wax." The plants of sturdy growth, with large, 



broad leaves, are similar to "Wardwell's Kidney" (144), and have 



broad pods with white seeds. 

 ' 150. "Butter Wax." This is of the "Golden Wax" type (Nos. 118-123). 

 ' 151. "California Black Wax." Having medium length, flat, straight, yellow 



pods with black seeds. This number is close to the numbers 102- 



110. It was quite prolific. 



* 152. "Eldorado Wax." This is quite similar to 153, but with longer pods. 

 ' 15.3. "Golden Jersey Wax." This seems to be a selected strain from the 



"Golden Wax" (No. 118-123). 

 ' 154. "Ventura Wonder." This seems to be an improvement upon the 

 "Davis' Wax" (111-112), with long, yellow pods and a good bearer. 



* 1.55. "Crimson Beauty." This is similar to "Goddard" (18), with the 



green pods beautifully marked with red. It yielded well. 

 ' 1.56. "King of the Earlies." This has a desirable pod, long and curved, 

 striped at maturity, and bearing black seeds. 



* 157. "Pi'olific Market." This gave late, "viney,*' green-podded plants, 

 inclined to run. 



158. "Silver Refugee." 



' 159. "Yankee Winter." This is a green-podded sort, forming small, spread- 

 ing plants, about the size of "Crystal Wax," and as desirable. 



' 160. "Asparagus." This resembles closely the forage plant known as 

 "Cow Pea." 



Experiments iirith ^'Jackson 'Wonder" Bnsh Lima. 



The "Jackson Wonder" bush lima bean is remarkably prolific^ and 

 were it not for its striped seeds it would be perhaps the leading 

 variety, except with those who insist upon having the large, thick- 

 fleshed bean of the "Burpee" or '"Dreer" types. This "Jackson" has 

 a great tendency to vary in the amount of the dark color in the seed, 

 some plants producing those with the seeds nearly white. 



In 1904 a block of a hundred or more plants was grown from the 

 darkest selected seeds and another with the lightest seeds to be found 

 in a pound package of the commercial seed. From rhe crop secured 

 from these plantings, made in widely separated parts of the Gardens, 

 the darkest and lightest seeds were again selected and planted sep- 

 arately. 



