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THE VEGETABLES OF NEW YORK 



lightly productive with a short bearing period: stem slender: branches 

 few and wholly green. Foliage scanty, dark grayish green; leaflets 

 large, very broad, coarse, crumpled; 4'o inches long by 4 inches 

 wide, quite generally rounded, widest near base, indented at stem, 

 short abrupt tip. Flowers white. 



Pods dark, dull, silvery green in color. Quality excellent; 

 very brittle and tender, fleshy, stringless, fiberless and of fine 

 texture. Size long, fairly broad and fairly plump (6-7 J 4 xj^x ^ 

 inches), containing 8-9 seeds per pod. Shape round, broad oval 

 to nearly circular in cross-section, curved, crease backed, constricted, 

 not crowded, smooth, filled to the tip and edge, and rounded to 

 somewhat truncate on the end. Spur short, medium slender and 

 recurved. Suture, placental is indented and carpellary, rounded 

 to obtuse. 



Seeds medium to large, 1.5 x .85 x .45 cm., (90-95 per oz.); 

 broad reniform, flat, thin, long oval thru cross-section, indication or 

 tendency towards a slight twist; ends abruptly rounded to truncate. 

 Hilum small, flattened. Color white, faintly marked with grayish 

 vein-like under pattern. 



Caseknife. Rets. 10, 12, 13, 15, 20, 28, 47, 48, 52, 

 59, 63, 67, 68, 79, 91, 97, 98. Syns. Dutch Caseknife, 

 White Case Knife, Case Knife Runner. This is one of 

 the oldest known varieties in America, the name Case- 

 knife and its many strains or synonyms, some of which 

 undoubtedly deserve record as true varieties and others 

 which differ but slightly from the type as grown today, 

 have been noted in the literature since 1820. In the 

 Country Gentleman of 1856 it was listed as a leading 

 pole bean. Comparing it to some varieties which are in 

 the same general group, we find Caseknife similar to 

 Advance but later in season and more productive. White 

 Soissons has larger seeds and very long, wrinkled pods. 

 Liancourt seems to be intermediate between Caseknife 

 and White Soissons, the pods being more curved, more 

 swollen over beans, and more constricted than those of 

 Caseknife, while the beans are longer, more plump, and 

 little or not at all distorted, yet the dry seeds are not as 

 plump nor as round at the ends as those of Soissons. 

 As a shell bean Caseknife ranks in quality with Lazy 

 Wife and Worcester Mammoth. Caseknife and Early 

 Giant Advance are considered the flattest podded 

 varieties under cultivation in this country. The variety 

 is not of commercial value since it is a low yielder and 

 the pods, which are tough and thin-walled, are not 

 suitable as snap beans. It may be suitable for home use 

 as a late green shell bean. In season it is early for a 

 pole bean, the pods are ready in 65 days or pickable at 

 the same time as Kentucky Wonder, 5 days earlier than 

 McCaslan, 10 days earlier than Scotia and Cutshort, 

 and nearly 20 days earlier than Lazy Wife. 



Plant of only medium growth, 4 to 4 ' ■> feet high with spread 

 at base of 1 } ■> feet; climbs well, rather rank grower, twining rather 

 loosely; stout stemmed, few branches, green thruout; vigor fair, 

 moderately productive with short bearing period. Foliage scanty, 

 medium to light green, crumpled, and wrinkled, slightly rough, 

 rather thin and papery; leaflets large 4jg to 5' L > inches long, very 

 broad )4 :i 4 inches 1 from very near base to one-third distance to tip, 

 margins decidedly rounding, base indented at stem, tips small, 

 abrupt. Flowers white. 



Pods light silvery green in color. Quality poor; stringy, 

 fibrous, quite tough, slender, (7'j-9 x : '. v •* x {,— ' _. inches), 

 containing 7-8 seeds per pod. Shape very flat, ovate-acuminate in 

 cross-section, straight to somewhat curved, straight backed, some- 

 what constricted, not crowded, smooth, filled to the tip but not 

 to the edge and rounded or sharply tapered at the end. Spur long, 



slender, and recurved. Suture, placental is flat and carpellary, 

 acute. 



Seeds very large, 1.7 x .9 x .5 cm., (75 per oz.) oblong reni- 

 form, wide, flattened, when dry often irregular, twisted or curved, 

 quite uniform and plump when green, ends rounded. Hilum 

 small, slightly protuberant. Color, ivory white, thru which grayish 

 veinlike marking appears over the entire surface; a very pale yellow- 

 ish tinged, narrow eye-ring somewhat in evidence. 



Cherry Pole. Refs. 47, 56. This variety is 

 known in America only through the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden test of 30 years ago. It is considered inferior 

 to Mont d'Or, which it resembles very closely. Irish 

 says the plants were identical, the flowers rather lighter 

 in color, and the seeds a little larger. Denaiffe thought 

 it later than Mont d'Or with less fleshy pods which 

 never become wholly yellow, and which were more 

 stringy. Of the seeds described and illustrated by 

 Denaiffe, those of Cherry were the smaller and more 

 nearly circular. Mont d'Or is described with the wax- 

 podded pole beans. 



Climbing French. Refs. 52. Syns. Climbing 

 Canadian Wonder, Tender and True, Veitch's Climbing 

 French. A climbing sport of the group of dwarf beans 

 to which Canadian Wonder belongs. It is probably 

 the most widely grown climbing French bean grown in 

 England. The type has split up into minor forms, 

 having seeds very much alike in color and size but 

 differing in minor characters of foliage and pod. Many 

 strains show plants with both green and yellow pods. 



Plant, branched, vigorous, 3 1 2 to 4 ' 2 feet high; foliage medium 

 abundant. Flowers lilac. Pods 4 to 7 inches long, straight, flat, 

 pale green or waxy yellow, with little string. Seeds large, long, 

 kidney shape, shining purple. 



Cream Pole. Refs. 63. Farquhar sent this variety 

 to the Kansas Station for trial in 1889, probably the 

 same year of its introduction. It was carried for a 

 few years by this firm, but never became well known. 

 In the Kansas test it was late, but quite productive. 



Plant medium in size: leaflets medium to large, rather thick 

 and coarse. Flowers violet. Pods 4 inches long, nearly straight, 

 Jg-inch wide, flattened, light green, whitening later. Seeds 3 to 5, 

 very large, rounding oval, flattened, greenish white at green-shell 

 stage, when ripe, smooth, dun-colored with dark brown eye-ring. 



Creasebaek. Refs. 28, 48. 63, 91, 97. Syns. 

 Earliest of All, Ewing Prolific Pole, Fat Horse, July 

 Pole, Missouri White Cornfield, Mobile Pole, Straight 

 Creasebaek, White Creasebaek. Martens describes, 

 under a name which translated means " White Bean," a 

 pole type which he considers the predecessor of Princess 

 and which corresponds very closely to Creasebaek. He 

 considers this identical with beans found among the 

 upper Missouri River Indians by Prince Maximilian of 

 Wied. This apparently confirms Tracy's statement that 

 Creasebaek, which was brought to notice by Frotscher 

 in 1881, had been grown in the South many years 

 before this date. The extensive synonymy strengthens 

 the presumption that the variety is very old, but probably 

 originated in the United States. 



Tracy described two types; one very early and similar 

 to Kentucky Wonder in having slow-growing, slender 

 vines, small at first, and easily crowded out by the 

 strong-growing plants of the other type, and a later 



