DESCRIPTIONS OF VARIETIES 



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ingly marked brownish purple. Seeds 7 or 8, rather like those of 

 Tennessee Wonder, hut with lighter, more pinkish or light brown 

 ground color and with broken rather than continuous black lines, 

 dashes and spots of black, large, broad-kidney shaped, ' _. inch or 

 more in length, plump to slightly flattened, about 50 to the ounce. 



Pale Dim Runner. Refs. 97, 98. The time when 

 this bean first came into use is unknown. It is now 

 impossible to distinguish present types or strains referred 

 to as " dun-colored " with similarly named varieties 

 mentioned in early bean literature. The variety was 

 grown at this Station in 1882 and found to be very 

 late and much better in productivity than other green- 

 shell pole beans, although in this respect it was not 

 equal to Marshall. 



Plant very vigorous and tall -growing; foliage abundant; 

 leaflets large, broad-ovate inclining to lozenge-shaped, moderately 

 taper-pointed. Pods 5 to 5 ' _> inches long, straight or nearly so, 

 with medium length, slender tips, swollen by beans, wrinkled, pale 

 dun color splashed with violet. Seeds usually 5, nearly ] ■> inch long, 

 three-fourths as wide, two-thirds as thick, approaching globular, 

 occasionally truncate, with eye more or less protuberant, polished, 

 shining pale dun or light brown, with bright yellow eye-ring. 



Phenomenon. This bean was first introduced 

 into this country by Vaughan in 1913, but the variety 

 originated about 1905 in Germany with J. C. Schmidt. 

 From fragmentary descriptions it appears to have been 

 much like McCaslan. 



Pods long (7H to 9 ! L i inches), fiat round, sometimes with 

 flat-podded rogues, almost straight, very fleshy, smooth-surfaced, 

 swollen over beans, more or less stringy when old, but not fibrous. 

 Seeds of medium size, white. 



Powell Prolific. Refs. 48, 91. This variety origi- 

 nated with E. P. Powell of North Carolina, and was 

 introduced in 1887 by A. T. Cook. It is a very late 

 variety, producing its slender, curved, short pods in 

 clusters scattered thickly over the compact, vigorous 

 vines. 



Plant, vines heavy, of moderate height, climbing well. Flowers 

 lilac. Pods 4 ' 2 to 5 ' 2 inches long, straight for two-thirds length 

 from stem, then curving gently to rounded ends with very short 

 tips, very broad oval or circular in cross-section, 5 g inch or more in 

 diameter, with flat dorsum, fleshy and thick-walled, but rather 

 tough, stringy, not fibrous, coarse-textured, poor in quality, light- 

 green with purplish shading. Seeds 8 or 9, crowded in pods, about 

 ?s inch long, nearly half as wide, short oblong with very short- 

 rounded often truncate ends, quite plump, deep dull black, about 

 150 to the ounce. 



Predome. Refs. 13, 32, 47, 52, 93, 94. Syns. 

 Prudhomme, Prodommet. At one time Predome was 

 grown in the United States in a limited way, being 

 described by both Burr and Irish but not by Tracy 

 or Jarvis. This pole bean has long been very popular 

 in France, where it is still listed and highly recommended, 

 and was considerably used in England as late as 1919. 

 In many respects the variety is perhaps most like 

 Princess but with fleshy pods exceedingly like those of 

 Lazy Wife, though not quite so thick and with tip 

 extending on dorsal edge rather than from center. 



Plant climbing, 5 to 6 feet moderately vigorous, stem slender. 

 Foliage medium abundant to scanty; light green, leaflets small 

 2 to 2 ' 2 inches long and from lj^ to 1 3 4 inches wide, thin, wrinkled. 

 Flowers, white. Pods green, tender, brittle, slightly stringy, 

 fiberless, good quality, slightly flat, short, 3 to 4 inches long, J^ inch 



broad, straight, spur short, thick. Seed slightly flattened, sub- 

 truncate, white. 



Princess. Refs. 13, 47, 52, 56, 93. In Europe 

 this variety was widely grown during the first half of 

 the last century. It was known to Martens and was 

 described by Burr. In the United States it was tested 

 at the Missouri Botanical Garden, but it never was used 

 as a commercial sort. The name was used by Tracy as a 

 synonym of Caseknife, but that variety and the one 

 here described differ greatly. It is still in use, especially 

 in French Islands, Belgium, and Holland. Princess is 

 a midseason variety, very productive, and most com- 

 monly used for the green shell and dry beans. 



Princess differs from Predome in pods which are 

 longer and with seeds more separate in the pods. The 

 seeds when dry are larger and of a brighter whiteness. 

 There is also a subvariety known as Long Podded 

 Princess with seeds even more separated in the pods. 



Plants about 6 feet tall, moderately vigorous, climbing well; 

 foliage rather scanty, light yellowish green; leaflets small, wrinkled, 

 thin. Flowers white. Pods green, 4 to 4 ' 2 inches long, nearly 

 straight, with long-rounded ends and short tips, not quite } 2 inch 

 wide, sub-cylindrical, swollen over beans and constricted between 

 them, without string or fiber but hardly fleshy enough for good 

 snaps, green, slightly yellow near maturity. Seeds 6 or 7, some- 

 times more, not touching in pods, plump ovoid, about 3 g inch long, 

 li inch or more wide, very plump, with well rounded ends, white. 



Princess Rose. Refs. 98. The only record of this 

 bean is through a test at this Station in 1883 in which it 

 was found to be a rather late, fairly productive variety 

 suitable for use for the snap beans only. 



Plant climbing, but only 3 feet tall, slender-stemmed and 

 sparingly branched, with light green pods. Seeds small, nearly 

 globular, very slightly longer than broad, occasionally slightly 

 compressed on the ends, shining light reddish brown with brown 

 eye-ring. 



Purple Pod. Refs. 47, 93, 94. This variety was 

 grown at the Missouri Botanical Garden and considered 

 by Irish to be the French variety described previously 

 as Blue Podded Pole; but his description of the purplish 

 color of the foliage stems, leaf-stalks, and flowers, and 

 the shape of the seed and its light color make it almost 

 positive that Purple Pod is Martens' Lucas Bean, a 

 newer sub-variety of the " Cosses Violettes " of Vilmorin 

 and other French authorities, rather than the old variety 

 which had been known in America since 1859. The 

 Lucas bean was found in possession of a neighboring 

 gardener by Dr. E. Lucas, Reutlingen, Germany, in 

 1863. Aside from the rather deeper violet color, 

 beginning on the sunny side of nodes and extending to 

 flower stalks, all parts of flowers, and to the pods as 

 soon as they are well formed, which coloration makes the 

 variety a curiosity, the Purple Pod or Lucas bean was 

 no better than Blue Pod, although both varieties produce 

 in late mid-season heavy crops of large, much swollen, 

 fleshy pods, practically stringless and fiberless, and of 

 good quality. 



The seeds of Purple Pod are described by Irish as of " various 

 shades of yellowish green, with dark ring around the hilum, more 

 than ' 2 inch long, irregularly flattened, often with truncated ends, 

 slightly kidney-shaped;" while Martens gives color as flesh colored 

 with gray veining, and shape -3 inch long, more than half as wide, 

 one-third as thick, flat kidney-shaped. 



