HISTORY OF AMERICAN GARDEN BEANS 



seedsmen from various local sources. Even the more 

 noteworthy selections of the latter part of the century 

 originated from these early local types. 



From just before the beginning of the twentieth 

 century importations of varieties originating in Europe 

 (especially through the large seed establishments of 

 Sutton in England and Vilmorin in France) became 

 numerous in American catalogs. Most of these have 

 disappeared because the American custom of using 

 beans at a more mature stage than the Europeans do 



has prevented the acceptance of varieties which show 

 stringiness or parchment in the fully formed pods. 



Forcing types which were fairly abundant in catalogs 

 of the earlier decades of this period have been rendered 

 unnecessary by the opening up of the large vegetable 

 crop areas of Florida, Texas, and other southern states. 



The present tendency is the introduction of strains 

 of fully known parentage. 



The history of individual varieties is treated in 

 considerable detail in Chapter III. 



