Royally Bean 



This variety is a round-pod, bush, snap bean which resulted from a cross 

 between Florida ^501 blue pod, a climbing round pod variety, and a 

 stringy flat-pod, blue, bush bean, an heirloom variety grown only by a 

 few home gardeners in New Hampshire. In -Royalty, the best characteristics 

 of both varieties have been combined, giving a medium length, round pod, 

 stringless bush bean of great productivity. The tan-colored seeds have 

 marked ability to germinate in cold ground. Tan seed and blue-pod color, 

 also called purple hull, seem to be closely linked. Thus far, all seedlings with 

 blue pods also have tan seed. The plants have attractive purple flowers. 

 Royalty is a useful novelty in that the pods contrast with the green foliage, 

 hence, are easily picked. As soon as the blue pods have cooked in boiling 

 water for one or two minutes they turn green. Thus for the home gardener 

 who freezes beans there is the convenience of a built-in blanching indicator. 

 The cooked beans are an attractive dark green; the flavor and quality are 



good. 



The crossing of common beans is a difficult and tedious procedure, but 

 selection in subsequent generations is easy because little natural crossing 

 occurs. Beans are also easy to handle in the greenhouse. Many times we 

 grow one crop in the field and three successive crops in the greenhouse 

 during the winter months. Two calendar years of such intensive breeding 

 may, and often does, result in a true breeding line. 



Pole Wax Beans 



A heavy producing wax pole bean. It is 

 stringless, has white seeds, long pods. 



There has never been a pole wax 

 bean equal to the green-pod Ken- 

 tucky Wonder. We therefore made a 

 cross between a stringless, bush wax 

 bean of our own breeding, having 

 a low fiber content, and Kentucky 

 Wonder. Continued selections were 

 made from this cross for a vigorous 

 productive climbing plant with 

 stringless, large, straight pt)ds and 

 white seeds. The result is a produc- 

 tive wax, pole variety with pods up 

 to a foot in length which have a 

 better sliape than those of Kentucky 

 Wonder. A dominant gene for the 

 stringless character has made this 

 project difficult to complete. Seed of 

 a desirable strain is now 

 creased. 



being in- 



Flat Seed Horticultural Beans 



The lima bean, Phaseoliis luiiatus, is not grown generally in New Hamp- 

 shire. A pole bean, with large flat seeds called Horticultural Lima, is grown 



