DESCRIPTIONS OF VARIETIES 



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cultural poles that the Goddard does to the dwarfs, 

 being exceptionally strong growing and vigorous. A 

 gardener near Brockton, Mass., had some pods on the 

 Brockton market where they were noticed by the Aaron 

 Low Seed Company, who secured seed and introduced 

 the variety in 1885. The pods are most handsomely 

 splashed, resembling in that respect Golden Carmine. 

 The pods also resemble those of Goddard Bush but are 

 natter and longer. 



Plant of large growth, slow to start but covering the trellis 

 well later: branches wholly green; leaflets large, long, long-pointed, 

 smooth, flat, dark green. Flowers pink. 



Pods dark green in color but splashed with dull red in green 

 shell stage. Quality poor; stringy, fibrous, tough, and rather coarse 

 in texture. Size long, very broad and slender, I 7-8 x 3 4 x 5 $ inches), 

 containing 5-6 seeds per pod. Shape flat, elliptic in cross-section, 

 straight, flat to slightly creasebacked, slightly constricted, not 

 crowded, smooth, filled to the tip and edge and sharply tapering 

 at the end. Spur very long, slender and uniformly curved. Suture, 

 placental is slightly indented and carpellary, moderately acute. 



Seeds large, 2.1xl.x. 8 cm. (45-50 per oz.); long reniform, 

 long oval thru cross-section, fairly plump to somewhat flattened; 

 ends uniformly rounded. Hilum small, flat to slightly indented. 

 Color light fawn (pale pinkish buff) sparingly splashed and streaked 

 with dark purplish red (violet carmine). 



Child's Horticultural. Refs. 48, 91. John Lewis 

 Childs secured the stock of this variety from a farmer's 

 garden in North Jay, Me., and offered seed in 1891. 

 In the original description it was said to be an improve- 

 ment on the well-known horticultural bean in having 

 pods in clusters and in being more brilliantly splashed 

 with carmine than London Horticultural. In all respects 

 plant, pods, and seeds most closely resemble Brockton. 



Pods like those of Brocton, shorter, broader, having thicker 

 necks and shorter tips, more curved, of even poorer quality as 

 snap beans; rather more productive, with pods in clusters, of 

 same or later season; very attractively marked; containing 6 to 7 

 seeds, shorter and proportionately more plump, with darker back- 

 ground and less pronounced markings. 



Concord Pole. Refs. 48, 91, 97. Syns. Big 

 Sioux, Hemisphere, October Pole. The first mention of 

 Concord was during the period between 1860 and 1865. 

 The original plant was found in a garden in Concord, 

 Mass., and by some is said to have been a natural hybrid 

 between Lazy Wife and Early Horticultural, others 

 giving the parents as London Horticultural and White 

 Cranberry. It is very similar to Mottled Cranberry, 

 but seed color is rather more buff drab or light brown 

 than crimson. 



Plant similar to Brockton, perhaps more open in growth, with 

 lighter foliage, abundant; leaflets broadly wedge obvate, slightly 

 taper pointed. Flowers white. 



Pods medium green in color. Quality poor; stringy, moder- 

 ately fleshy, quite tough, fibrous and medium coarse texture. Size 

 medium long, very broad and quite slender, somewhat shorter and 

 broader than either Brockton or Childs (5-53 o x 3 4 x f' s inches), 

 containing 5-6 seeds per pod. Shape flat, elliptical in cross-section, 

 slightly curved, straight backed, slightly constricted, not crowded, 

 rough surfaced, filled to the tip but not to the edge and rounded to 

 moderately tapering at the end. Spur similar to Brockton, long, 

 moderately slender, and uniformly but slightly curved. Suture, 

 placental is flat and carpellary, acute. 



Seeds large, 1.5 x .95 x .8 cm. (55-60 per oz.); short, broad 

 oval, plump, broad oval in cross-section; ends rounded and occasion- 

 ally slightly compressed. Hilum medium, flat to slightly protuber- 



ant, hilar surface somewhat raised at the immediate vicinity of the 

 eye. Color two-thirds of the surface, including the upper portion 

 of the sides, ends and all of the dorsal surface, white. Hilar surface 

 marked with a distinct area of light dun pinkish cinnamon) splashed 

 and mottled with dull red i morocco red) and a moderately wide 

 yellowish (zinc orange) eye-ring. 



Crosby Horticultural. Refs. 63, 90. Syn. 

 Horticultural Cranberry. This variety was named for a 

 distinguished Massachusetts gardener, Josiah Crosby, 

 of Arlington. Farquhar, in 1890, introduced the stock 

 as the earliest of the pole horticulturals. 



Plant large grower, leaflets medium to large. Pods 3 to 4 

 inches, flat, curved, thick. Seeds roundish oval, plump, light 

 brown, splashed with brownish red. 



Early Horticultural. Refs. 48, 90, 91. Syns. 

 Early Pole Horticultural, Little Gem, Little Wonder. 

 This bean was grown privately by gardeners near Wor- 

 cester, Mass., and was introduced by Ross Bros., in 1902. 

 It was listed but a short time and was popular only in a 

 very restricted area. The plants lacked vigor and pro- 

 ductiveness, yet while the snap pods were stringless 

 they were too coarse-grained and of too poor quality for 

 wide use. The older pods were difficult to shell for the 

 green beans. 



Foliage dark green, long, very flat leaflets. Pods large, very 

 broad, decidedly constricted, dark green, much splashed with red. 

 Seeds large, broad oval, fairly plump, white, streaked with pink and 

 attractive in green shell stage — light fawn when ripe, irregularly 

 streaked and spotted with dark red and with brown eye-ring. 



Erfurt Ruby. Refs. 45, 63. This bean, with seed 

 peculiarly shouldered, was grown at Geneva and at the 

 Kansas Station in 1889 and listed by both Gregory and 

 Thorburn in 1890. It is of German origin, probably 

 very shortly before the dates given. It is of interest 

 mainly as a curiosity because of the dark carmine red 

 color of the young pods, which color is coordinated with 

 similar shading of stems, branches, and leaves and 

 deepening of the color on the outer parts of the flowers. 

 The pods lose the color in ripening, becoming almost 

 white. 



Plant low, slender runners; leaflets small, dark green, deeply 

 wrinkled. Pods 6 to 8 inches long, 3 4 inch wide, usually irregularly 

 curved. Seeds 4 to 6, more than ' 2 inch long, nearly two-thirds as 

 wide, broad kidney-shaped, with unequal ends, fairly plump, light 

 greenish brown or brownish pink, veined deeper, with dark brown 

 eye-ring. 



Harlequin. Ferry introduced Harlequin in 1913 

 without stating the origin. It is not the French variety 

 with similar name. As grown at Geneva it proved to 

 be a fine type of Horticultural pole bean, improved in 

 earliness and productivity over London Horticultural, 

 with longer and plumper pods. 



Plants vigorous, above medium height for type; foliage light 

 colored, large; pods of Rust-proof Intermediate Horticultural type, 

 5 J -i to 6 ! 4 inches long, straight, with rounded ends and rather long, 

 curved rigid tips, about 3 4 inch long, very broad oval in cross-section, 

 with flat dorsum and obtusely-pointed ventrum, smooth, well filled 

 by the beans, only slightly constricted, rather tough, stringy, coarse- 

 textured, not suitable for snaps, medium, green marked, purplish 

 carmine, attractve but not showing yellow for contrast. Seeds 

 large, sometimes .' 2 inch long, broad ovate or almost oblong, very 

 plump, with rounded, not truncate ends, typical Horticultural 

 markings but darker in shade than most of group. 



