DESCRIPTIONS OF VARIETIES 



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obscure light brown eye-ring, which later has a more 

 pinkish tinge. In size the seeds are smaller, distinctly 

 thinner, and have ends more often truncate than the 

 seed of Bayo. 



Pink-eye. This is so nearly a duplicate of White 

 Kidney that the same description with minor changes 

 applies to either variety. Leaflets are not quite so large; 

 the pods are broader, \ • to - ; inch wide, and with coarser 

 texture. Seeds are of the same shape but are about one- 

 fifth larger and with a small pink or reddish spot or 

 oblong, parallel-sided patch at each end of the eye, one 

 of which is usually larger and longer than the other. 



Pinto. At least three distinct Pinto beans are 

 grown in Colorado and states further South and West, 

 and all are hardy and suited for growth on dry land. 

 None are early enough or productive enough for growing 

 successfully in the East, nor is there any demand for 

 beans of this color in our markets. Seeds of Mexican 

 Pinto, the bean mostly used to prepare Chile con carne, 

 are very much like Great Northern in size, but are some- 

 what more plump and without kidney-shaped indenting 

 of the hilum. The color is like the seed color of Rhode 

 Island Butter pole bean. Seeds of Spotted Mexican are 

 like Red Mexican in size and shape but are " calico " 

 spotted. The large irregular white areas are distributed 

 with areas of dark crimson in proportions varying from 

 half and half to solid red color. 



The Siberian, Manchurian, or California Pinto of 

 Aggeler and Musser is a smaller, plumper bean, more 

 like Burlingame in size and shape, with under color 

 of light brown tinted salmon and narrow more or less 

 curved streaks of darker brown or mahogany red. 



Plant medium in size, vine semi-trailing, spreading; foliage 

 medium to dark green. Flowers white. 



Pods borne mostly below the foliage; also to some extent in 

 the lower leaf axis of runners; medium light green in color, in later 

 stages, cream-colored and rather deeply marked with irregular 

 brownish-purple stripes or streaks. Quality poor; tough, stringy, 

 fibrous and coarse in texture. Size medium long, quite broad and 

 slender, 4?4 to 5 inches long, containing 5-6 seeds per pod. Shape 

 flat, oval in cross-section, moderately curved, straight to occasionally 

 slightly creasebacked, constricted, not crowded, smooth, filled to 

 the tip but not to the edge and abruptly rounded to truncate at 

 the end. Spur long, slender and slightly recurved. Suture, pla- 

 cental is flat to somewhat indented, and carpellary, acute. 



Seeds medium, 1.3 x .8 x .56 cm. 85-90 per oz.); short, rather 

 broad oval occasionally somewhat rhomboidal, long oval thru cross- 

 section; ends very abruptly rounded to decidedly truncate. Hilum 

 medium, slightly indented. Color pinkish buff ibuff pink), spar- 

 ingly blotched over entire surface with medium dark brown ! dresden 

 brown and marked with a narrow, deep orange (zinc orange) 

 eye-ring. 



Red Face. A variety grown by the Indians as a 

 soup bean. In growth habit the plant is erect and free 

 from runners, differing in this respect from Ground 

 Bird. The color marking while red instead of yellow 

 resembles the Molasses Face type of Yellow Eye. 



Plant dwarf, 16-18 inches tall, spread in row 10-12 inches; 

 erect growth. Free from short runners characteristic of some 

 field beans. Quite vigorous, moderately productive. Stem quite 

 stout, slightly ridged, internodes medium; branches few, both 

 medial and basal in position. Foliage medium, dull dark green; 

 leaf surface moderately smooth, quite heavily veined, medium 

 pubescent. Leaflets moderately small, 4— 4j^ inches long by 



2'j-2 3 .i inches wide — tip medium, rather abruptly pointed 

 stipules medium, no tendrils present. Flowers white, borne singly 

 and in pairs. 



Pods borne intermediate and below the foliage. Color dull 

 light green (light grape green). Quality fair; stringless, moderately 

 brittle but coarse in texture. Size medium long, broad and moder- 

 ately slender (,5—6 x - x \ x fg inches), containing 5-6 seeds per pod. 

 Shape oval in snap stage. Broad oval in cross-section, straight, 

 slightly creasebacked, regular, smooth, filled to the tip and edge. 

 Spur medium short, thick, and straight to slightly recurved. Suture, 

 placental is slightly indented and carpellary, obtuse. 



Seeds medium 1.3 x 1.0 x .8-.9 cm. (55 per oz.); broad oval, 

 moderately short, plump, very broad oval in cross-section; ends 

 abruptly rounded. Hilum flat, small. Color dull white on the 

 dorsal surface, ends and sides; marked with a large, dark reddish 

 purple (bordeaux), regular area over the entire ventral surface. 



Red Kidney. Refs. 16, 21, 35, 43, 44, 47, 48, 61, 

 63, 77, 89, 91. Syns. Chilean, Dwarf Green pod, French 

 Kidney, Improved Red Kidney, Large Red Kidney, 

 Red Turkey. Joint use of the names Red Kidney and 

 Burr's Chilean in the Country Gentleman of 1874 

 and later references identify these varieties as probably 

 the same. This indicates a South American origin for 

 Red Kidney, although no date of introduction has been 

 found. In the eastern states it was known before 1857. 

 As with other field beans, the seed is saved by the indi- 

 vidual grower, from home-grown or local stocks. This 

 facilitates the development of many strains of Red Kid- 

 ney, a few of which are distinct enough to merit notice. 

 French Red Kidney is one of the older types, character- 

 ized by rather small, dark garnet brown seeds lightened 

 with crimson violet; pods long, more slender than in 

 most other strains, straight near the stem, but distinctly 

 curved at the center. Wells Red Kidney comes from a 

 single plant selected by Byron Luce, Marion, N. Y., 

 about 1904. The stock was gradually developed and 

 came in part into possession of John Q. Wells, Shorts- 

 ville, N. Y., for whom it was named and through whom 

 this strain became widely distributed. Seed of Wells 

 Red Kidney is rather light colored. Other strains 

 developed more recently have been named Geneva Red 

 Kidney and York Red Kidney. These were developed 

 by Prof. W. O. Gloyer from a cross between Wells Red 

 and White Kidney beans made at this Station in 1920. 

 The seeds are indistinguishable from Wells Red Kidney, 

 although the plants are markedly vigorous and show 

 much of the White Kidney growth character. 



Red Kidney is widely grown in the Finger Lakes 

 District of Central New York, is second in importance 

 in Michigan, and is being grown increasingly in the 

 coastal regions and internal valleys of northern Cali- 

 fornia. From two-thirds to three-fourths of the total 

 export trade in dry beans is composed of Red Kidneys 

 sent to Cuba, Porto Rico, and other West Indian 

 islands. There is also some demand for Red Kidneys 

 from the pork and bean trade. It is intermediate in 

 season for field beans. The habit of the plant is the 

 same as that for White Kidney, the pods differing in 

 being straighter at the stem end and somewhat flatter. 



Plant large, 14 to 16 inches tall, with spread of 12 to 14 inches; 

 erect, compact, runnerless; vigor good, intermediate in season, 

 heavily to moderately productive, thick stemmed, branches few, 

 green throughout. Foliage medium in abundance, medium green, 



