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THE VEGETABLES OF NEW YORK 



Burger Stringless, more productive, and with pods that 

 are natter and more twisted. 



Plant similar to Burger Stringless in all plant characters. 

 Pods dark green in color. Quality fair; fairly brittle and tender, 

 some stringiness, small amount of fiber, good flavor but rather 

 coarse in texture. Size long, broad and slender, (7-8 x ^ x -^ inches), 

 containing 7-8 seeds per pod. Shape flat, cordate to long ovate in 

 cross-section, irregularly curved, straight backed, slightly constricted, 

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

 to blunt on the end. Spur short, medium thick and straight. 

 Suture, placental flattened to slightly indented and carpellary, 

 acute. Seeds medium, 1.7 x .85 x .5 cm., (80-85 per oz.), somewhat 

 smaller than seed of Dutch Caseknife; oblong, reniform, flattened 

 and inclined to be somewhat twisted, altho not as much so as the 

 above named variety: ends rounded. Hilum small, flattened. 

 Color ivory white, thru which a grayish vein-like under pattern is 

 apparent over the entire surface. 



Marshall. Refs. 97, 98. Thorburn's catalog of 

 1882 lists this variety. It was grown at Geneva that 

 year. The record indicates that it was exceedingly late 

 and the most productive in weight of beans of any 

 variety tested. As only the ripe pods are described, it 

 was undoubtedly a variety suitable only for the green 

 shell and dried beans. 



Plant tall, with abundant, rather dark green foliage, large" 

 broadly ovate leaflets, inclining to triangular, taper-pointed. Pods' 

 6'_. to 7 inches long, much swollen and wrinkled, sabre-fornr 

 somewhat flattened, parchment like, light dun yellow. Seeds 4 to 5> 

 oblong, very broad, kidney shaped, quite strongly flattened side- 

 wise, rarely compressed at the ends, more than ' > inch long, two- 

 thirds as wide, rather more than one-third as thick, pale dun yellow, 

 striped with brighter yellow in rings concentric about the eye, with 

 dark, reddish brown eye-ring. 



Missouri Wonder. Refs. 13, 48, 91. Syns. Nancy 

 D., Noxall, Prolific Green Pod, Rhode Island Butter, 

 White's Prolific Pole. The original form of this bean 

 is quite unknown. The evidence now available indicates 

 its synonomy with those varieties mentioned above and 

 possibly also with still another variety known nearly 

 50 years ago (Ferry catalog 1889j as Rhode Island 

 Creaseback. Rhode Island Butter Pole is a name listed 

 by seedsmen at least since 1867 and is considered the 

 oldest of the names mentioned, since it was grown for 

 many years previous to its being listed. White's Prolific 

 Pole by some is said to have been known as early as 

 1850 and to have originated either as a renamed Rhode 

 Island Butter or as a southern variety coming from 

 Fulton S. White of Birmingham, Alabama. These two 

 varieties were considered identical. Evidently this 

 type gradually passed from popular use for at the 

 beginning of the century we find it reintroduced under 

 different names. Wm. Henry Maule in 1901 offered 

 New Prolific Green Pod Pole which was renamed Noxall 

 the next year after a prize name contest won by Mr. 

 W. C. Richards of Carleton, Michigan. At that time 

 it was stated that the variety had been grown by one 

 family for a period of 60 years. About this same 

 period the name Missouri Wonder became identified 

 with a type grown in the middle west. Henry Field 

 was one of the first to list it under this name. In his 

 catalog of 1907 nearly one entire page was devoted to 

 extolling its merits. Nancy D, another name for the 

 variety, is of more recent origin, coming from Ferry in 



1924. The original stock came from Mrs. Nancy Davis 

 of Hazard, Kentucky. She asked that it be called 

 Nancy Davis. However, since Scotia or Striped Crease- 

 back is now offered by some under the name Nancy 

 Davis, Ferry, to avoid confusion, called the variety 

 simply Nancy D. Three of these names, Missouri 

 Wonder, Noxall, and Nancy D. were listed in 1931, 

 and we have chosen the name Missouri Wonder. 



Under Geneva conditions it proved to be an excel- 

 lent sort with vines productive of pods especially suit- 

 able for use for the green shelled beans. The same in 

 season as Kentucky Wonder or McCaslan, one week 

 earlier than Scotia. 



Plant large, climbing well, branched, green throughout. 

 Leaflets small to medium, rather dark, broad, crumpled, rough 

 surface. Flowers white. 



Pods medium green in color, lighter than Kentucky Wonder. 

 Quality poor, tough, stringy, quite fibrous but medium fine in 

 texture. Size medium to long, moderately wide and very plump 

 '5 1 j-6 x ' j x : .-' j inches!, containing 6—7 seeds per pod. Shape 

 round, cordate thru cross-section, curved, creasebacked, occasionally 

 straight backed, moderately constricted, not crowded, smooth, 

 filled to the edge but not to the tip and rounded at the end. Spur 

 long, slender and slightly curved. Suture placental is indented and 

 carpellary obtuse. 



Seeds large, 1.7 x .9 x .6 cm. (65-70 per oz.). Shape oblong 

 sub-reniform, sometimes much shorter, usually plump, occasionally 

 somewhat flattened, oval to moderately broad oval thru cross- 

 section. Ends usually irregular, not truly truncate, occasionally 

 rounded and often wedge-shaped — not very uniform. Hilum 

 small flattened, sometimes very slightly depressed. Color pale 

 pinkish cinnamon) tinged with i vinaceous-grey ) to form a finely 

 mottled undercolor, splashed irregularly over the entire surface 

 with a drab (critrine-drabj and marked with a distinct, moderately 

 broad, two-toned color eye-ring, the inner portion of deep orange 

 brown (tawny) shading toward the outer portion with a tawny 

 yellow (deep chrome). 



Mottled Prolific. This is probably the original 

 type from which Tennessee Wonder came, or an 

 unnamed closely related strain later introduced as Tenn- 

 essee Wonder or Striped Sickle. It differs from these 

 varieties in much shorter pods, about 4 J •_> inches long, 

 borne usually in pairs only, and in more flattened seeds 

 often with truncated ends. It was very productive but 

 late and the young pods were tender and of fine quality. 



Olathe Prolific. This variety is known to us only 

 through its listing by Northrup in 1893 as a new pole 

 bean, and described as a new climber, very early, with 

 fleshy, stringless pods 7 to 8 inches long, each with six 

 or seven large, flat kidney-shaped beans, white with 

 brownish or metallic spot or stripe. 



Oregon Giant. Syns. Dickenson's Yount, Moth- 

 er's Favorite, Routledge Giant. This bean of western 

 origin has been known for some time and is very popular 

 in the Pacific Northwest. The pods in our tests have 

 been larger than pods of most pole varieties and were 

 produced in abundance and fairly early. 



Plants not specially characteristic but leaflets decidedly long 

 for pole beans, especially the laterals which are very one-sided. 

 Flowers pink, well distributed over the vines. Pods 8 ' _• to 9 ' 2 

 inches long, curved in S-shape, ' ., to :1 4 inch wide, cordate-ovate 

 in cross-section, rather thin-walled, inflated, constructed between 

 beans, not filled to the edge by the beans, somewhat tough, stringy, 

 coarse-textured, of only fair quality, very light, waxy green, strik- 



