DESCRIPTIONS OF VARIETIES 



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suitable for market but not home use; good shippers. Seeds 

 usually 5, very large, s ± inch long, ' ■_> inch wide, more than ' 1 inch 

 thick, decidedly broad kidney-shaped with indented hilum; white, 

 strikingly marked about eye with purplish " butterfly " markings, 

 soon becoming almost black. 



Fordhook Favorite. Refs. 53. Syn. White Seeded 

 Stringless Greenpod. John W. Daily of Falling Waters, 

 West Virginia, found a plant bearing pods with white 

 seeds in a bed of brown seeded Burpee's Stringless 

 Greenpod in 1903. Starting with ten beans, he increased 

 the stock and in March of 1906 sent a sample to Burpee's. 

 In 1910 it was offered as a novelty as " White-seeded 

 Stringless Greenpod " and sold in sealed packets, 30 

 seeds for fifteen cents. Prizes were offered for the best 

 Postal Card Reports, and in 1911 the name was changed 

 to Burpee's Fordhook Favorite. 



In general usage this variety is quite similar to 

 Stringless Greenpod altho the white seed bestows an 

 advantage in that it may be used as a dry shell bean. 

 A good all round variety with large, round, plump pods, 

 ready in 48 to 50 days, closely following the very earliest; 

 3 to 4 days later than Stringless Greenpod or about the 

 same in season as Full Measure, Black and Red Valen- 

 tine. Fordhook Favorite closely resembles Stringless 

 Greenpod in plant characters, but the pods are shorter 

 and more fleshy. 



Plant medium to large, 14 to 18 inches tall, with a spread 

 of about 15 inches in the row; erect but somewhat scraggly and 

 open, without runners; vigor fair, moderate in yield, over fairly 

 long season. Stem stout, round, smooth with short internodes; 

 branches few, with some secondary branches, green thruout. Foli- 

 age scanty to medium, medium green, not glossy, rough, crumpled, 

 slightly wrinkled, moderately thick, with rather heavy veining; 

 leaflets large, 4 ' 2 inches long by 3 ] 2 inches wide, widest one-quarter 

 distance from base, sides sloping gradually to broad short point. 

 Flowers white. 



Pods borne intermediate among the foliage; light silvery 

 green in color. Quality good; practically stringless, brittle, small 

 amount of fiber, and of fine texture. Size medium long, quite 

 broad and plump (4J £-6 x ! j x ft inches), containing 4-6 seeds per 

 pod. Shape round, broad oval in cross-section, curved, straight- 

 backed to slightly crease-backed, somewhat constructed, not 

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

 pointed at the end. Spur short, stout and straight. Suture, 

 placental is slightly indented and carpellary, obtuse. 



Seeds medium to large, quite variable, 1.4 x .8 x .7 cm, (55-90 

 per oz. I, oval, sub-reniform, plump; well rounded ends. Hilum 

 small, protuberant. Color ivory white, indistinctly marked, with 

 a grayish vein-like system that shows thru the seed coat. 



French Mohawk. Refs. 48, 91. This probably 

 was of English origin, sometime before 1883. It was 

 twice introduced into the United States, and was 

 noteworthy for its long, straight pods. It is much like 

 Mohawk, but makes a larger, coarser growth, and pro- 

 duces pods which are much longer, and more slender. 

 It is hardy and productive, but quite late. 



Plant 1 J 3 to l 2 v feet tall, very erect, and vigorous, with large, 

 rough, green foliage. Flowers pink. Pods almost 8 inches long 

 under good conditions, slender, almost straight, round-oval in 

 cross-section, green splashed with purple, very tough, stringy and 

 fibrous, poor in quality. Seeds -'3 to % inch long, slender, oval in 

 cross-section, truncate or rounded at ends, deep bluish black, spar- 

 ingly splashed pale buff. 



Full Measure. Refs. 11, 48, 69, 99. Syns. 

 Perfection Stringless, Pride of Iowa, Prolific Stringless. 



Peter Henderson & Company first listed Full Measure 

 in their catalog of 1906. It was said by them (cat. 1907) 

 to have been developed from a cross between Yosemite 

 Mammoth Wax and Refugee or 1000 to 1. This is a 

 variety well suited for the home garden or for market 

 use; classed as a second early, coming just after the 

 Stringless Greenpods, 49-53 days at Geneva, about 

 three days later than Bountiful. Full Measure most 

 resembles Byers and Giant Stringless, the pods are more 

 scimitar curved, shorter, with the characteristic inch 

 marks found on pods of these varieties. The seeds are 

 very similar to the seed of Byers. 



Plant 14-15 inches high, rigid with spread of 9—10 inches in 

 row; stocky, erect when young, compact; often quite spreading 

 when loaded with pods; vigorous, hardy, and moderately productive 

 Stem very stout, round, ridged; branches few, green. Foliage 

 medium abundant, dull medium green, slightly pubescent, thick, 

 rough, crumpled, medium to heavy veining; leaflets above medium 

 size, 5 inches long, 4 1 2 inches wide, broadest very near base, taper- 

 ing uniformly to rather obscure point. Flowers blush pink. 



Pods borne intermediate among the foliage; light green glass 

 green i in color. Quality excellent, fleshy, brittle, stringless, quite 

 fiberless and of fine texture. Size medium to long, moderately 

 broad and quite plump, (5-6J-9 x ?s x ft-? s inches I, and con- 

 taining 5-6 seeds per pod. Shape round, nearly circular in cross- 

 section, curved, occasionally scimitar shaped, slightly crease-backed, 

 regular to somewhat constricted, smooth, not crowded, filled to the 

 tip and edge, and pointed at the end. Spur long, medium slender 

 and slightly curved. Suture, placental is indented and carpellary, 

 rounded. 



Seeds medium to large, 1.7 x .7 x .65 cm, (65—70 per oz.) long 

 oval to almost cylindrical occasionally sub-reniform, very plump; 

 ends very abruptly rounded to truncate, Hilum small, flat. Color 

 light buffy-brown (warm buff) mottled with darker brown (antique 

 brown J of varying intensity with a pattern resembling Refugee; 

 marked with a narrow tawny-yellow eye-ring. 



Fullmer. Refs. 63, 98. This was a very old 

 English bean, possibly identical with Red Swiss or 

 derived from it. It was grown at this Station the first 

 year beans were tested, 1882; listed by Thorburn and in 

 1888 was tested at the Kansas Station. Tho early and 

 productive it never gained a place in popular favor, as 

 the pods were too short for market. 



Plant l 1 ^ to lj> feet tall, stout, erect, with short runners; 

 leaflets large, almost round, coursely wrinkled, dark green. Flowers 

 pale violet. Pods 3 to 4 .'2 inches long, very fleshy, straight, dark 

 green, stringy and fibrous. Seeds generally 4-5, slightly more than 

 J-2 inch long, very broad oval or distinctly ovate, very plump, 

 colored about like Red Valentine. 



Feejee. Refs. 10, 15, 47, 48, 91, 97, 98. Syns. 

 Early Fegee, Lightning, White's Early. This bean, 

 now known as Lightning, was cultivated in the middle 

 of the past century as White's Early, the name Feejee 

 being current for about thirty years from 1870 to 1900. 

 It is now seldom grown in the United States, tho it was 

 for a long time quite widely distributed. Feejee was 

 considered a very early variety in America, where it was 

 used for snaps and picked continuously in early stages 

 over a long season; but held to be quite late in France 

 where it was used for green shells. Wing's figures 

 support both views, pods are ready among first but the 

 beans mature with the late varieties. 



Plants very similar to those of Dwarf Caseknife, but with 

 purplish pigment, giving color in stripes and patches to stems, 



