DESCRIPTIONS OF VARIETIES 



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Gray Succession. This was a French variety 

 that was grown at this Station in 1888, found to be 

 intermediate in season, and productive of long, slender 

 green pods that were not of high quality. 



Plant 1 foot tall, with rather erect branches, deep green, 

 roughened and blistered foliage, and pale purple flowers. Pods 

 6 to 7 inches long, slender, generally much curved, stringy and 

 fibrous, green. Seeds 6 or 7, medium to large, oblong or slightly 

 kidney-shaped, heavily marked blackish purple over dirty white. 



Green-seeded Flageolet. Refs. 15, 16, 48, 49, 



63, 97. This bean is one of the oldest known varieties 

 grown in France, having green-tinted, slightly to much 

 flattened, plump to slender, kidney shaped seeds. In 

 France it is known as Flageolet a Grain Vert and as 

 such has been known since before 1860. It probably 

 originated as an accidental variation or sport from 

 White Flageolet, from which it differs in points dis- 

 tinguishable only by careful study of foliage, pods, and 

 with seeds showing an increase in green pigment. The 

 pods soon become too stringy to make it an acceptable 

 snap bean; but the green beans are of fine flavor, and 

 attractive color when cooked or canned. 



Plants as described under Triumph of the Frames. Pods 

 borne well above foliage, dark dull green in color. Quality poor; 

 decidedly stringy, fibrous, medium tough but rather fine in texture. 

 Size short to medium, narrow and slender i4 I 4 — 5 x J j— rV x J^ inches), 

 containing 5-6 seeds per pod. Shape oval to flat, ovate thru cross- 

 section, moderately curved, straight backed, regular, not crowded, 

 smooth, filled to the tip and edge, and is rounded at the end. Spurs 

 long, moderately stout and curved. Suture, placental is rounded 

 to flat and carpellary, obtuse. Seeds small to medium, 1.7 x .6 x 

 .4 cm, 1 160 per oz.) long reniform, somewhat flattened; rounded or 

 somewhat truncate at the ends. Hilum flat to very slightly pro- 

 tuberant. Color greenish white (water green) over entire surface 

 and marked with a darker shaded, vein-like under pattern. 



Green Soissons. Refs. 47. Mons. Bonneman is 

 credited with originating this variety in 1894, in which 

 year it was introduced by Vilmorin. Tho described by 

 Irish, it does not appear to have been grown commercially 

 in the United States. 



Plants only slightly different from those of Dwarf Soissons. 

 Pods longer and heavier. Seeds lighter green in color and rather 

 more plump than those of the Flageolets. 



Grenell Stringless. Refs. 48, 91. This variety 

 was one of the varieties originating with W. H. Grenell, 

 Pierrepoint Manor, N. Y., and v/as introduced by J. 

 Bolgiano in 1905. The flat pods and short picking season 

 prevented its success in competition with Burpee String- 

 less, Giant Stringless and Bountiful, varieties that equal 

 it in quality and excel it in earliness. 



Plants very similar to those of Red Valentine, but slightly 

 larger, stiff er-stemmed and with rather more spreading branches; 

 quite free from disease. Pods long, but variable, 5 } ■•> to nearly 

 7 inches, round, thick, nearly J i inch in diameter, much curved, 

 particularly toward tip, slightly swollen over seeds, ends lon^- 

 pointed, ending in long, slender, slightly curved tips, green, brittle, 

 stringless, with slight fiber, of good quality. Seeds 5 to 6, about 

 li inch long, rather more than half as wide, oval in cross-section, 

 hardly plump, broad oblong, well rounded at ends, white, patterned 

 much like Golden-eyed Wax, but eye-patch and streak over end 

 yellowish brown or fawn, lighter than that of bean mentioned, and 

 with less definite borders, darker greenish or brown eye-ring. 



Henderson. As might be surmised, this relatively 

 new bean originated with the firm of the same name and 



was introduced by them in 1920. The parentage is not 

 known but the seed and plant characters show a resem- 

 blance to such varieties as Full Measure, Red Valentine, 

 Longfellow, Mohawk, and Early Refugee. There is 

 another peculiar similarity that may show relationship; 

 the seed of Henderson is practically identical with the 

 seed of Golden Age which was also introduced by 

 Henderson 8s Co., but two years later or in 1922. It 

 is possible that both varieties have one or both parents 

 in common; one variety however, produces green pods 

 and the other wax pods. 



At Geneva pods were ready for picking in 53 days 

 or 6 days later than Tendergreen and about the same in 

 season as Longfellow, Magpie, or Six Weeks. It is 

 somewhat similar to Red Valentine in color of pod and 

 length of tips but much more curved with indentations 

 (inch marks J soon showing. These, however, are not 

 as marked as in pods of Giant Stringless Green Pod or 

 Full Measure. The foliage is a lighter green than 

 Tendergreen and the leaflets are smaller and less circular 

 in appearance. 



Plant medium in size, 14 inches high with spread of 12 to 

 15 inches; erect, compact, vigor good, yield only fair. Stem stout, 

 rigid, smooth; branches few, green thruout. Foliage medium, 

 abundant, medium green, dull, crumpled, slightly rough, thick; 

 leaflets about 4 3 4 inches long, 3 ] 2 inches wide at one-fourth dis- 

 tance from base, with edges showing slight inward curve to rather 

 sharp point. Flowers blush pink. 



Pods borne intermediate among the foliage; light silvery 

 green in color. Quality good; fleshy, brittle, stringless and quite 

 fine, altho not ideal in texture. Size moderately long, narrow and 

 plump (5-6 x Yi x ?s _1 2 inches), containing 5-6 seeds per pod. 

 Shape round, nearly circular to oblate in cross-section, moderately 

 curved, slightly constricted, not crowded, smooth but occasionally 

 marked with diagonal, silvery, blister-like markings, filled to the 

 tip and edge and tapering on the end. Spur long, moderately 

 stout and recurved. Suture, placental is indented and carpellary, 

 rounded. 



Seeds medium to large, 1.55 x .65 x .5 cm, (65-70 per oz.), 

 somewhat cylindrical to long reniform, moderately plump, nearly 

 circular to broad oval in cross-section; ends abruptly rounded. 

 Hilum medium, fiat. Color intermediate between Full Measure 

 and Longfellow, tawny yellow under color (ochraceous tawny), 

 mottled and splashed over the entire surface with reddish brown 

 (sanford's brown) of varying intensity. 



Hodson Green Pod. Refs. 48. Sometime previous 

 to 1905 a stray plant with green pods was found in a 

 field of Hodson Wax by O. W. Clark and Son who 

 are also credited with introducing the variety. It has 

 one of the most attractive pods of any American bean; 

 very long, practically straight, of flat type but quite 

 plump, of good green color. Unfortunately the quality 

 of the pods is as poor as the appearance is good. 



Plants tall, ljjj feet, with stout stems, but long, spreading 

 branches, runnerless but secondary branches occasionally trail on 

 the soil. Foliage moderately abundant, dark dull green, rough; 

 leaflets very long, 6 inches, and two-thirds as wide, on very long 

 stalks. Pods 7 ] 2 inches long and as indicated above. Seeds of 

 Valentine color, but showing more of light areas and red areas 

 polished rather than dull, curved kidney-shape, about ■? £ inch 

 long, hardly half as wide, fairly plump, about 80 to the ounce. 



Hoover Special. Woodruff- Boyce Seed Co. first 

 found this growing near Seattle, Washington, and 

 named it in 1919, for the former Food Administrator, 



