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THE VEGETABLES OF NEW YORK 



branches, leaves, flowers and pods. Pods rather short in snap 

 stage, 4 J 2 to 5 inches long later, rather rarely exceeding J •_> inch in 

 width, flat, usually slightly curved, somewhat constricted, with 

 short, stout, curved tips. Seeds oblong, quite strongly kidney- 

 shaped, flattened sidewise, about \ -j inch long, nearly as broad, 

 half as thick, varying in color, — from grayish white to mixed 

 drab, slate and brown (Irish), from almost pure white to white 

 mottled and streaked with various shades of dull blue and drab 

 (Wing). Sometimes distinctly patterned by curved bands. 



Galega. Refs. 15, 16, 27, 48, 49, 81, 91, 97, 98. 

 This variety was first known about 1880 and was quite 

 popular for a time. It is a selection from Refugee and 

 distinguishable from that variety only by being slightly 

 larger in plant, foliage, pods and seeds. The pods were 

 slightly curved backwards at the neck and decidedly 

 more reddish and the seeds were of a darker shading 

 making them apparently like Extra Early Refugee. 

 The general plant characters and season were the same 

 as for Refugee altho possibly it was a few days earlier, 

 and somewhat more productive. 



Garden Pride. Refs. 48, 91. This variety was 

 introduced in 1903 by A. N. Jones, LeRoy, N. Y., 

 and was similar in habit and uses to the better known 

 Fordhook Favorite of nearly a decade later. While 

 it was rather productive of pods that were very excellent 

 for use as snaps, they had the disadvantage of being 

 rather poorly shaped. The seeds were considered rather 

 small for green-shell beans. 



Plants and foliage about the same as those of Fordhook 

 Favorite. Pods distinctly curved, sometimes almost S-shaped, 

 narrower, more oval in cross-section, with long, curved tip. Seeds 

 decidedly smaller than those of Favorite (short-oblong) but other- 

 wise like them. 



Garland. Kendall and Whitney in introducing 

 this as new in 1914 described it as a superior early shell 

 bean, very productive and with seeds like those of Low's 

 Champion but larger and longer. It was omitted from 

 the introducer's catalog of 1918, and has not been listed 

 by others. 



Giant Forcer. Refs. 91. Henry A. Dreer intro- 

 duced Giant Forcer in 1906 and listed it for about nine 

 years. It was very similar in appearance and usefulness 

 to round-podded Best of All, altho smaller in plant and 

 with seed of different color. 



Plant very large and spreading, but runnerless; leaflets 

 very large, dark green, with very rough surface. Flowers light 

 pink. Pods variable, but properly very long, over seven inches, 

 straight, round-oval in cross-section, stringy but brittle and with 

 little fiber, medium green in color, sparingly splashed with faint red 

 in green-shell stage. Seeds 6-8 crowded in pod, small to medium, 

 roundish oval in cross-section, well rounded at ends, straight or 

 slightly rounded at eye, pale buff, sparingly splashed with fawn. 



Giant Stringless Green Pod. Refs. 11, 41, 48, 

 50, 69, 77, 91, 99. Syns. Bell's Giant Stringless Green 

 Pod, Colossal Stringless Greenpod, English Stringless, 

 Giant Podded, Giant Stringless Green Pod Valentine, 

 Improved Stringless Green Pod, Mammoth String- 

 less Green Pod, Newington Wonder, Norwood Stringless. 



This popular bean was originated by N. B. Keeney 

 & Son, LeRoy, N. Y. and introduced in 1898 by Johnson 

 and Stokes as Giant Stringless Greenpod Valentine. 

 It was said to have been a selection from Red Valentine, 

 but if so, it would seem as tho the plants came in the 



field through mechanical mixture. Just what the par- 

 entage was must remain unknown. It could well have 

 had hybrid origin from any one of the many varieties 

 grown at that time. 



Giant Stringless Greenpod is about the same in 

 usefulness as Stringless Greenpod, it is valuable either 

 for a home or market garden variety where a good quality 

 round green pod is desired. It has the good qualities 

 necessary for packing high quality cut beans. The 

 color in the seed coat develops fairly early and there 

 is considerable constriction between seeds as the pods 

 get older. At Geneva this was an early variety 47 to 

 48 days to the first picking, not more than 2 or 3 days 

 later than Stringless Greenpod and from 1 to 2 days 

 earlier than Full Measure. The pods are larger, 

 longer, straighter, with the characteristic inch marks 

 more prominent than with Burpee's Stringless Greenpod. 

 It is quite similar in general characteristics to Full 

 Measure and Byers. 



Plant resembles those of Burpee's Stringless Green Pod except 

 as noted: slightly larger, with fewer, longer and more straggling 

 branches, foliage rather coarser and lighter in color. Flowers lilac. 

 Pods borne intermediate among the foliage; medium dull green in 

 color. Quality excellent, very brittle, entirely stringless, without 

 fiber or parchment and medium fine in texture. Size long, rathtr 

 narrow, and fairly plump (6-7 x 'jx J s inches), containing 6-7 seeds 

 per pod. Shape round, nearly circular in cross-section, slightly 

 curved, straight backed, somewhat constricted, not crowded, 

 smooth, filled to the tip and edge, and pointed or tapering on the 

 end. Spur medium long, stout, and slightly curved. Suture, 

 placental is flat to rounded and carpellary, obtuse. 



Seeds medium, 1.4 x .7 x .55 cm, (70-75 per oz.) oval to 

 cylindrical, occasionally sub-reniform, rounded to somewhat trun- 

 cate ends. Hilum small, flat. Color light brown tinted ochre 

 yellow (ochraceous-orange) distinctly a lighter shade than Burpee's 

 Stringless; inconspicuous, darker brown-olivaceous narrow eye-ring 

 present. 



Golden Refugee. Refs. 16, 48, 61, 80, 84, 91. 



This was a selection from Refugee and was introduced 

 in 1884, apparently by both Henderson and Thorburn. 

 It was carried for a few years, with only a limited dis- 

 tribution by others and then dropped. In most trials 

 it was a few days earlier than Refugee, rather less viny 

 and stouter -stemmed, with lighter -colored foliage and 

 decidedly light green, almost white pods, similar to 

 those of Crystal Wax, which led canners to call it Silver 

 Refugee. The maize yellow and metallic brown of its 

 smaller seeds gave it the more common name, Golden 

 Refugee. As it was less productive and considered less 

 hardy, it did not displace the parent variety. 



Gray-seeded. Refs. 47, 98. This sort was one 

 of the earliest snap beans grown at the Station in 1883 

 and was included in the Missouri Botanical Garden tests 

 in 1901. No other American references to it have been 

 found, altho Denaiffe says it was of American origin. 

 Altho early it was neither productive nor good in quality. 



Plant strictly dwarf, under a foot, small to medium, leaflets 

 very broad, smooth, deep green. Flowers white. Pods grayish 

 white (pearly white-Wing) with green sutures often with purplish 

 markings, 3 to 4' 2 inches long, J 2 inch wide or less, curved, slightly 

 flattened. Seeds like those of Taylor Green Pod in shape, not 

 quite as large, yellowish or reddish brown, or brownish drab with 

 veiny markings, with darker red ring around eye. 



