DESCRIPTIONS OF VARIETIES 



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few. no secondaries, mostly green but occasionally slightly purplish 

 tinged at nodes on stem and blossom stalks. Foliage scanty 

 accentuated because of open habit of growth, medium green; 

 leaflets slightly rough and crumpled, thin, rather than thick, very 

 light pubescence, rather small to above medium, 3'.j inches long 

 by about 2 1 •> inches wide, widest ' 4 distance from base, distinctly 

 taper pointed, lateral leaflets quite one-sided, Flowers rose purple. 

 Pods borne above foliage, light green (Kildare green) in color. 

 Quality rather poor, as pods are stringy, quite fibrous and tough. 

 Size medium long, narrow, quite plump, i 5-6 ' > x ? j x iV -3 8 inches), 

 and containing 6-7 seeds in a pod. Shape round, nearly circular 

 in cross-section, very slightly curved, straight backed, regular, not 

 crowded, smooth, filled to the tip, and rounded at the end. Spur 

 short and straight. Suture, placental is flat and carpellary, obtuse. 

 Seeds small, 1.3 x .7 x .5 cm (,102 per oz.), oval to oblong, occasionally 

 somewhat reniform; plump, trunca e or abruptly rounded ends. 

 Hilum small, flat, or slightly indented. Color shining jet black 

 over entire surface. 



Blood Speckled. Refs. 47, 93, 94. This old 

 bean was probably little known in America but was 

 grown and tested at Geneva and the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden. In Paris markets it was very popular until 

 1906 as a dry shell bean. For snap pods it is tough, 

 and altho excellent as green shells, it is used mostly as 

 a dry shell bean. 



Plant with many short barren runners. Pods long, straight, 

 rather slender, constricted, short-tipped, green often striped purplish. 

 Seeds 5 or 6, longer and much broader and more flattened than those 

 of Valentine, but somewhat similarly marked: — according to Wing, 

 light brown or dun color, almost entirely covered with dark red 

 (in blotches and streaks i, the two colors sharply separated with 

 a yellowish brown eye-ring. 



Boston Market. Refs. 27. Salzer is said to have 

 introduced this variety in 1891. As described by the 

 Michigan Station it appears to be a very early, very 

 small-bushed, short, curved-podded, stringless Valentine, 

 picking over a very long season, but not very productive 

 because of small plants and small pods. 



Bountiful. Refs. 41, 48, 50, 53, 73, 77, 91, 99. 

 Syns. Breck's Boston Snap, Improved Six Weeks, Sutton's 

 Plentiful. During the late 90's it was the practice of 

 certain of the larger seed companies to introduce each 

 year a few new varieties and offer prizes for appro- 

 priate names. Thru this agency Peter Henderson in 

 1898, offered twenty-five dollars as a cash premium 

 for the best name sent in for New Green Bush Bean 

 No. 1. Abel Steele of Ferguson, Ontario, won the 

 first prize with the name Bountiful. This variety, 

 therefore was introduced in 1898 and named Bountiful 

 the following year. Henderson secured the seed from 

 D. G. Burlingame of Genesee, New York. It was said 

 to be a selection from Long Yellow Six Weeks, certainly 

 its general resemblance to this variety would support 

 this belief. For its type it is not approached by any 

 other variety, in season, vigor, productiveness, appear- 

 ance, and quality. 



The early history of Bountiful shows it to have 

 been recommended chiefly as a home garden variety. 

 Its rise as a commercial sort has been rather slow, 

 but since 1920 it has forged ahead of all other greenpod 

 beans for market use. It is now acknowledged to be the 

 earliest and best in quality of the strictly stringless flat 

 podded sorts. It can be planted early or late and 



because the pods remain in good condition for a long 

 time after picking it has become very popular as a 

 variety to grow for shipment. 



At Geneva 47 to 50 days to the first picking; as 

 early as Tennessee Green Pod or Black Valentine and 

 about 3 days earlier than Full Measure, Stringless 

 Greenpod or Long Yellow Six Weeks, 10 days earlier 

 than Refugee. While Bountiful was selected from 

 Long Yellow Six Weeks, it differs from that variety in 

 lighter color of foliage, earlier, larger, straighter pods, 

 and superior quality. Grenell Stringless is later in 

 season and has darker foliage. 



Plant strictly dwarf, medium to large, 15 to 18 inches high 

 with spread of from 12 to 18 inches, quite bushy, medium erect 

 when young, rather straggly when fully grown. Plant appears to 

 be top heavy, after heavy rains or winds it is liable to appear pros- 

 trate and cover quite a spread in row; very vigorous, hardy, heavily 

 productive over a long season. Stem stout, round, ridged above, 

 internodes long; branches few, slender, green thruout. Foliage 

 abundant, leaves large in size, very light green in color, in field 

 appeared as having the lightest green foliage of all bush sorts; 

 leaflets smooth to very slightly rough, medium thick, sometimes 

 slightly wrinkled, older leaves crumpled, 4' 4 ' to 4 3 4 inches long, 

 2 J g to 3 l 2 inches wide, at one-fourth or less distance from base to tip, 

 sides tapering regularly or with slight out curve to rather sharp tip 

 three-fourths inch long. Flowers blush pink. 



Pods borne both above and below foliage, light yellowish 

 green (light dull green yellow) in color. Quality excellent; brittle, 

 stringless, with small amount of fiber and fine texture. Size medium 

 to long, quite broad and medium slender to plump, (6-7 x } o x 3 g 

 inches i, containing 6—7 seeds per pod. Shape medium flat to round, 

 long to broad oval in cross-section, straight to slightly curved, 

 straight backed, regular, not crowded, smooth, filled to the tip 

 and edge, and pointed or tapering at the end. Spur long, slender 

 and curved. Suture, placental is flat to slightly indented, and car- 

 pellary, broadly acute. 



Seeds medium, 1.4 x .8 x .6 cm (65 per oz.) oblong, somewhat 

 reniform, plump, with abruptly rounded ends. Hilum small, 

 flat. Color fawn when first harvested changing to dark dull straw 

 yellow (cinnamon) as it ages. A distinct darker brown, narrow 

 eye-ring is always present. 



Brown Holland. Refs. 47. Ascribed by name to 

 Holland in the first reference we find this is apparently 

 of European origin. It approaches very closely the 

 earlier Stringless Green Pod types (see Irish). Early and 

 very productive. 



Plant 5 6 to 1 foot tall, with many branches. Foliage light 

 green, rough but not wrinkled, with very large leaflets. Flowers 

 white, often blushed. Pods 4 to 4 ' _> inches long, occasionally 

 5 inches, half-inch broad or less, smooth, slender, approaching 

 cylindrical, slightly curved, fleshy, swollen over beans, stringy, 

 tough soon, light green becoming pale yellow. Seeds 4-5, ' j to 

 b /% inch long, more than half as wide, ovate oblong, often almost 

 kidney-shaped, with rounder, or occasionally truncate ends; very 

 dark dirt brown, with darker eye-ring. 



Burpee's Stringless Green Pod. Refs. 11,30,35, 

 36, 41, 47, 48, 49, 50, 53, 59, 62, 69, 77, 87, 91, 99. 

 Syns. Bell's Prolific Green Pod, McKenzie's Matchless 

 Stringless Green Pod, Prolific Green Pod, Schultz's 

 Stringless Greenpod, Stringless Forcer, Stringless Green 

 Round Pod, Stringless Wonder. This bean was intro- 

 duced in 1894 by W. Atlee Burpee and originated with 

 N. B. Keeney who claimed it to be the only absolutely 

 stringless green podded bean on the market. Since its 

 introduction it has retained its name as originally offered 



