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now President. It is said to be very hardy, so that it 

 can be planted early and therefore furnish pods before 

 any other greenpod bean. It is suitable for a dry shell 

 bean. 



Plant large, stout; leaflets coarse, dark green. Pods 6 to 

 6 1 _. inches long; flat, with long, tapering tips, medium dark green, 

 undoubtedly soon stringy. Seeds large, oval, slightly flattened, 

 white, mottled red. 



Hundredfold. Refs. 47, 53, 93, 94, 98. Syn. 

 Hundred for One. This was grown here and at the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden; but is not now listed by 

 seedsmen. 



Plant strictly dwarf, 1 foot or less, moderately vigorous; 

 leaflets deep green 3 to 4 inches long, 2 to 3 inches wide; considerably 

 wrinkled. Flowers white. Pods green, 3 to4j^ inches long, narrow, 

 nearly round in cross-section, curved with rather long, stout, stringy 

 and fibrous. Seeds under one-half inch, half as wide, plump, oval, 

 often with truncated ends, bright yellowish brown with marked 

 brown eye-ring. 



Ilsenburg. Refs. 47, 93, 94. Wing considered 

 this, an old German variety, so similar to Mohawk that 

 he named them as identical, altho his data show that it 

 was more than a week later and gave alnost double the 

 yield of Mohawk. Irish said it differed from Mohawk 

 in more drab-colored seeds finely spotted with yellow. 

 Vilmorin considered it a good " half -late " variety. 



Jones Green Pod. Refs. 42. By crossing Garden 

 Pride with Burpee Stringless, A. N. Jones secured a new 

 strain which became the successor to Garden Pride. 

 Maule introduced Jones Green Pod in 1906 as an all- 

 purpose bean. It apparently never found favor and 

 soon disappeared from trade lists. 



Much earlier than Garden Pride, a stronger grower, more 

 resistant to rust, with longer, straighter and fleshier pods and 

 larger seeds. 



King of the Greens. Refs. 16, 28, 53, 61, 80, 81. 

 This is another of the varieties originated with Bonne- 

 main and was introduced in the same year ( 1888 1 as 

 Green Bagnolet. It was said to have been a selection 

 from Wonder of France. The name is often used as a 

 synonym for other varieties of similar type. Like other 

 Bonnemain varieties, the leaves fall early thereby 

 facilitating the harvesting operation. 



According to Denaiffe it differs from its sister variety only 

 in rather shorter, more branched, more compact plants, and in 

 more regular, handsome pods. 



Knickerbocker. Refs. 48, 91. Henderson intro- 

 duced Knickerbocker in 1902 with the notation that it 

 originated in Genesee Co., New York as a Red Valentine 

 x Yosemite Mammoth Wax cross. Altho it is apparently 

 better than Burpee Stringless, to which it was very 

 similar, it was not able to displace that variety and 

 soon disappeared, being carried only five years in the 

 introducer's catalogs. According to Jarvis it " ranks 

 about the same as Burpee Stringless in productiveness, 

 quality and attractiveness." 



Plants like those of Yosemite Mammoth. Pods like those of 

 Burpee Stringless but decidedly larger, thicker, more constricted 

 between beans, straighter, much curved near tip, never curved 

 backward at stem end. Seeds oblong, more frequently truncate at 

 ends than those of Burpee Stringless, sub-circular in cross-section, 

 deep red or maroon in color. 



Langport Wonder. Kelway introduced this 

 variety in 1919 or before and it reached America in 

 1921. 



Plants are of the Sutton Superlative type, more productive 

 than Canadian Wonder, very early with pale green pods in clusters, 

 7 inches long, slender, straight, with comparatively short tips and 

 necks, stringless. Seeds rather larger and more uniformly kidney- 

 shaped than those of Canadian Wonder, horse chestnut color rather 

 sparingly blotched by the cream under color. 



Long Yellow Six Weeks. Refs. 10, 13, 15, 16, 



27, 28, 29, 41, 45, 47, 48, 49, 53, 56, 66, 67, 80, 81, 91, 

 93, 94, 97, 98. Syns. Breck's Yellow Cranberry, Date 

 Wax, Early Six Weeks, Gold Bean, Pride of Newton, 

 Rob Roy. This is undoubtedly one of the very oldest 

 bean varieties known. It is found in practically every 

 country where beans are grown. Where it started in 

 cultivation must remain unknown; in the United States 

 the earliest mention is found in the earlier catalogs of 

 American Seedsmen or around about 1825. Until its 

 daughter variety Bountiful (1897) came along it was the 

 favorite flat green-podded market bean. Round Yellow 

 Six Weeks (different) and Long Yellow Six Weeks were 

 carried together and as far as records go are of equal 

 antiquity. They were probably grown by native tribes- 

 men, picked up and distributed by the early explorers. 

 Long Yellow Six Weeks has been known as the Gold 

 Bean; according to Martens it is known in Canada as 

 Montreal Bean, in Italy as Fagiola della regina, in 

 France as Haricots rond printaires or Flageolet jaune, 

 in Germany as Early Yellow Princess Dwarf, Yellow 

 Egg, etc. Martens classed this variety under Phaseolus 

 ellipticus aurens. 



The pods are smaller than those of Bountiful, 

 somewhat darker with less silvering, much tougher, and 

 curved more in the middle rather than towards tip. 

 The plants are smaller, more erect, with foliage darker 

 green, altho lighter than other greenpods, with much less 

 of the characteristic bronzing appearing on the elder 

 plants of Bountiful. It is quite different from other 

 varieties grown during the same period Long Yellow 

 Six Weeks was popular. 



Plant medium in size. 12 inches high with equal spread, erect 

 but rather open; vigor good, moderately productive; branches 

 green thruout. Foliage abundant, light green; leaflets slightly rough, 

 crumpled, large in size. Flowers blush pink or lilac. Pods borne 

 below the foliage; medium light green in color. Quality poor to 

 fair; stringy, fibrous, fairly brittle when very young and coarse in 

 texture. Size long, quite broad and moderately flat, 6-6' _> x ' _> x 



'' s inches', containing 5-6 seeds per pod. Shape flat, long ovate in 

 cross-section, slightly curved, straight backed regular, not crowded, 

 smooth, filled to the tip and edge and moderately rounded at the 

 end. Spur long, slender, and moderately curved. Suture, placental 

 is flattened to somewhat rounded and carpellary, moderately 

 obtuse. Seeds medium to large, 1.55 x .7 x .55 cm, (65-70 per oz. I; 

 moderately long reniform, somewhat flattened, oval in cross-section; 

 ends uniformly rounded. Hilum medium to large, protuberant. 

 Color buffy brown i pinkish cinnamon to cinnamon buffi, over the 

 entire surface, marked with a wide, slightly irregular, dark brown, 



mars brown) eye-ring. 



Longfellow. Refs. 36, 41, 47, 48, 49, 64, 91. 99. 



Syns. Emerald Beauty, Emperor of Russia, French Lead 

 Pencil, French Market, French Stringless, Perfectly 

 Straight Round Pod, Sutton's Perfection. 



