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THE VEGETABLES OF NEW YORK 



% inch wide, green. Seeds 4 to 6, white when young, oval, between 

 plump and flattened, taffy yellow, polished, indistinctly veined. 



Everbearing Stringless. This variety originated 

 with Buckbee before 1913. It is said to be from a 

 Kentucky Wonder X Lazy Wife cross, in general char- 

 acters similar in every way to Kentucky Wonder except 

 for color of seed which is white. 



Plant, climbing habit good, exceptionally early, producing 

 clusters of dark green pods, 7 to 9 inches long, somewhat crease- 

 backed, almost straight near stem, curved at tip, depressed between 

 beans at green-shell stage, entirely stringless and containing 5 to 

 7 white seeds, shelling easily. 



Georgian Pole. Refs. 100. The lateness in matur- 

 ing pods of Georgian Pcle indicates an origin under 

 southern conditions. H. G. Hastings introduced the 

 variety in 1918 having secured the stock from a local 

 dealer who had had some trade for it for some years 

 back. Its true origin has never been definitely ascer- 

 tained. As grown at Geneva it produced edible pods 

 the last of September, but no ripe pods or dry seeds. 

 Throughout the season the growth of the plants was 

 very noticeable, the dark green foliage covering the 

 trellis even under the worst drought conditions possible. 

 The plants are resistant to drought and heat and also 

 grow strongly when planted in corn in spite of the shad- 

 ing. The pods are comparatively small, resembling pods 

 of Ideal Market and Ward's Prolific but entirely green. 

 The seeds are quite similar in color to those of Kentucky 

 Wonder but smaller, plumper, and somewhat different 

 in shape. 



Plant tall growing, 4 to 6 feet, climbing well, compact at 

 base of plant and throughout; foliage dense, very dark, smooth, 

 glossy; leaflets large, with terminals smaller than laterals, 4' 4 by 

 4' 4 inches and 5 by 4 inches respectively in general shape like 

 those of Kentucky Wonder but rather more rounded. Flowers 

 white. 



Pods light green in color. Quality good; quite fleshy, almost 

 stringless, fiberless, brittle, tender and fine in texture. Size medium 

 long, moderately broad and fairly slender, l4 3 4-5 ] 4 x y^ x ^s 

 inches!, containing 6-7 seeds per pod. Shape flat, oval in cross- 

 section, straight, slightly crease-backed, regular, fairly crowded, 

 smooth, filled to the tip and edge and tapering at the end. Spur 

 short, stout, and curved to occasionally recurved. Suture, placental 

 is flattened to somewhat rounded and carpellary, moderately obtuse. 



Seeds small, 1.2 x .65 x .5 cm., (115-120 per oz.); short oval, 

 somewhat flattened; ends round. Hilum small, flattened. Color 

 brown drab drab I to grayish brown hair brown) of varying 

 intensity over the entire surface, marked with a dark, reddish 

 brown, narrow eye-ring. 



Holstein. Whether one or two varieties are 

 included under this name is unknown. Seeds of the 

 " Holsteiner Bohne " were received at this Station from 

 Germany, and grown in 1883. The name would imply 

 that the seeds were white and black, these being the 

 color of Holstein-Friesian cattle. Buckbee listed the 

 Holstein pole bean as " my own introduction " in 1894, 

 but does not claim origination; so it is probably the 

 same as the " Holsteiner Bohne." It was said to be 

 the earliest pole bean, which the Station data practically 

 confirms, only one other variety, Orleans Red, produc- 

 ing earlier pods. At the Michigan Station the beans 

 were said to be " peculiarly marked red and white." 



Ideal .Market. Syns. Black Creaseback. This 

 was originally introduced in 1914 as Black Creaseback 



by Van Antwerp's Seed Store of Mobile, Alabama. A 

 local farmer had noticed in a planting of White Crease- 

 back a single plant different in growth and with black 

 seeds. When planted the next year it came true and 

 was considered as a new variety. In 1924 it was rein- 

 troduced by Chris Reuter Seed Co. of New Orleans as 

 Reuter's Ideal Market under which name it is now 

 generally cataloged. It is rapidly gaining popularity 

 as a valuable early and productive small-podded pole 

 bean, very hardy and vigorous. As grown here and as 

 seen in eastern trial grounds, it is fully a week earlier 

 than any other pole bean; nearly two weeks ahead of 

 Kentucky Wonder and Scotia. The pods are very 

 similar in appearance to those of Refugee with inch 

 marks when pods are well swollen. 



Plant is of moderate height, 3 to 3J^ feet tall, spread at base of 

 1 ] 2 feet, compact growth, stems marked reddish, branches few. 

 Foliage scanty, light to medium green, rather fine; leaves rough, 

 crumpled, medium veining, slight pubescence, thick. Flowers 

 phlox purple with noticeably long wings. Pods light silvery green 

 in color. Quality excellent; fleshy, brittle, tender, stringless, fiber- 

 less and fine in texture. Size moderately long, rather narrow and 

 quite plump, i5-5'_> x ? s — i'2 x '2 inches 1, containing 5-6 seeds per 

 pod. Shape round, broad ovate to cordate in cross-section, straight 

 to moderately curved, creasebacked, regular, not crowded, smooth, 

 filled to the tip and edge and rounded at the end. Spur short, 

 thick and moderately straight. Suture, placental is slightly indented 

 and carpellary, obtuse. Seeds small, 1.1 x .5 x .4 cm. 1140 per oz. 1; 

 oblong, oval, occasionally sub-reniform, moderately plump to some- 

 what flattened, oval in cross-section; ends uniformly rounded. 

 Hilum medium, flattened to slightly indented. Color, shining jet 

 black over the entire surface. 



Intestin. Refs. 47, 93, 94. Intestin was grown 

 at this Station in 1883, and was also described by Irish. 

 It is an old French variety originating with Mons. 

 Perrier of Bathie, and has never been commercially 

 grown in America. Denaiffe confused it with Crease- 

 back, which it somewhat resembles in pods, although 

 Intestin pods are much shorter and more like those of 

 Lazy Wife. The seeds, by their kidney-shape and dis- 

 tortion, with the eye not central, are more like those of 

 McCasland, but thicker. 



Japan. Refs. 47, 93, 94. The only record of this 

 variety in America is in the tests at the Missouri Botani- 

 cal Garden previous to 1901. It had been grown in 

 France for some time but was losing in popularity because 

 of the better quality of the newer varieties. 



Plant 4-5 feet tall with strong stem and few runners. Foliage 

 abundant, light green, wrinkled, thick; leaflets as broad as long, 

 small. Flowers purplish. Pods 4 to 6 inches long, more than 

 1 j inch wide, flat, much curved, with short, slender, curved tips, 

 much waved along ventral edge, fiberless, green during edible 

 stage, then yellow. Seeds very large, nearly 3 4 -inch long, two- 

 thirds as wide, very broad kidney-shaped, very flat, sometimes 

 slightly contorted, coffee brown. 



Java. Refs. 47. This variety like the preceding 

 is known only through the trials at the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden. It was thought to have been intro- 

 duced from Java, first into Germany and later into 

 France and England. 



Plant smaller than Japan, more viny, with straighter, rounder, 

 more attractive pods, without strings or fiber until beans are well 

 formed, fleshy and tender. Seeds smaller than those of Japan, 



