DESCRIPTIONS OF VARIETIES 



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White Flowered and Arabian Colored Runner appear. 

 Later, in its 1909 catalog, the Iowa Seed Company lists 

 Arabian Runner as similar to Scarlet Runner with white 

 flowers striped with scarlet. This description does not, 

 so far as is known, apply to any other known variety. 

 The bi-color types have different solid-colored keels 

 and wings, but they do not show the striped effect 

 mentioned above. 



Aroostook Bush Lima. Refs. 48, 91. Syns. 

 Aroostook Multiflora. This variety was introduced by 

 George W. P. Jerrard of Caribou, Me., in 1905, who 

 stated that the seed came from a customer. It has never 

 been grown at this Station, but according to Tracy, it 

 is decidedly the earliest of the eoecineus group. It 

 mostly resembles Barteldes Bush Lima, differing prin- 

 cipally in earlier season and smaller size. It may be 

 just another strain of the old Indian Bean of the South- 

 west referred to in the account of Barteldes Bush Lima. 



Barteldes Bush Lima. Refs. 7, 48, 91. Syns. 

 Aztec, Bush Multiflora, California Butter, California 

 Cream Butter, Grand Valley White Egg, Havai Supai, 

 Mexican Lima. So far as we have been able to deter- 

 mine, this variety had its origin generations ago. Bur- 

 bank related that it was supposed to have been found 

 in a sealed vase in an ancient Aztec dwelling in New 

 Mexico. The evidence secured from various references 

 and catalogues indicates that the above synonomy is 

 probably correct. Since the variety has never been 

 grown at this Station, the material presented is the 

 result of a review of literature pertaining to it, therefore 

 the veracity of these statements can neither be abso- 

 lutely confirmed nor denied. Some samples indicate 

 slight differences in some of the names written as syno- 

 nyms, but they are all believed to be strains of an old 

 Mexican or Indian bean — undoubtedly the one now 

 known as Aztec. Like several so-called lima beans of 

 the bush type, this is mis-named, since it does not belong 

 either to the small- or the large-seeded limas, but to 

 P. coccincus — the flowering bean. It cannot be con- 

 sidered a true bush bean since it has a distinct running, 

 spreading habit that forms a dense flat mass of runners 

 over the ground around the central stem. 



The variety was formally introduced about 1890 by 

 F. Barteldes & Co., who obtained the seed from Colorado. 

 At present the variety is no longer listed under the 

 above name, but the names Aztec and Grand Valley 

 White Egg are used by some seed houses located in the 

 Southwest. Barteldes Bush Lima is of a perennial 

 nature in the Southwest, its probable nativity. In a 

 test carried out by Bailey at Ithaca in 1895, the only 

 one in the East of which we have a record, some of the 

 plants developed a thickened perennial root, while others, 

 grown from the same seed packet, produced distinctly 

 fibrous roots. 



According to Tracy the variety is similar to Aroo- 

 stook Bush Lima, differing chiefly in having a larger 

 vine, seed, and pod, greater productiveness, and later 

 season. Under suitable conditions it produces green 

 shell pods much earlier than White Dutch Runner or 

 the true bush lima. The snap beans are considered by 



some to be superior to the tough kidney varieties, such 

 as Black Valentine and Davis Wax. 



Plant very large, thick stemmed, with long fruit branches, 

 vining, vigorous, generally unproductive, altho this depends on 

 environment. Foliage moderately abundant; leaflets large, dark 

 green, smooth. Flowers numerous, large, white. 



Snap pods varying in size, usually long, much curved, flat, 

 dark green with rough surface. Green shell pods borne in clusters 

 well above foliage, about 5Ja-6 inches long, containing 4-5 seeds 

 well separated in pods. 



Seeds very large, much thickened, very plump reniform, 

 nearly circular, thru cross-section. Ends uniformly rounded. 

 Hilum small, flat. Color glossy, white over the entire surface, the 

 veining being either very light or absent. 



Bijou. This variety was grown and introduced by 

 Watkins and Simpson in 1922. A year later it was listed 

 by Fottler, Fiske, and Rawson in the United States and 

 was grown in our tests sometime later. So far it has not 

 met with great popularity. It is rather late and, as 

 grown here, not very productive. It grew somewhat 

 taller than specified by the introducer, however, occa- 

 sionally reaching 6 feet. The seeds are only about half 

 the size of Scarlet Runner, with pods two-thirds as long, 

 averaging about 4} o inches. 



Plant semi -dwarf, quite vigorous, and fairly productive. 

 Stem slender, inclined to have a brownish tinge below the nodes. 

 Foliage medium abundant, moderately dark dull green, smooth, 

 and medium thick. Leaflets small, short, and very broad (2jjx 

 2 ] 4 inches). Flowers scarlet, quite numerous, large, borne on 

 moderately long flower stalks. 



Pods dark dull green, good quality, stringless, brittle and 

 fine texture. Size moderately short, rather narrow, but plump 



(4 J 2-5 x } 2-5 8 x 



inches) containing 5 seeds. Shape oval. 



ovate to cordate in cross-section, moderately curved, slightly hump- 

 backed, regular not crowded, filled to the tip and edge, moderately 

 smooth, and moderately rounded at the end. Spur medium short, 

 thick and straight to slightly curved. Suture, placental slightly 

 indented and carpellary, broadly acute. 



Seeds medium (1.7 x .9 x .65 cm.), containing 45-50 to the oz. 

 Shape long broad reniform, somewhat flattened, ends uniformly but 

 abruptly rounded. Hilum large, flattened. Color shining black 

 mottled mostly on the ends and carpellary suture with a deep red 

 (ox-blood red to carmine). 



Black Runner. Refs. 47, 56, 93, 94. Syns. 

 Arabische schwarze, Black Seeded Runner, Black Stake, 

 Haricot d'Espagne a grain noir, Phaseolus multiflorus 

 niger, Stangenbohne. This appears to be one of the 

 oldest varieties of which we have a direct record. Mar- 

 tens wrote that it was described by Titus in 1654 who 

 pictured it as one of the most beautiful and rarest beans. 

 No record of its growth has been found in America with 

 the exception of Irish's trials at the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden. It is largely from his report that this meager 

 description has been written. 



Plants climbing, branches reddish in color; flowers deep scar- 

 let red. Pods flamed brownish red. Seeds large, %— 1 x ?s-}^ x 

 J 3 x ? s inches in Europe, slightly smaller in this country. Coal 

 black in color. 



Butterfly. Syns. Papilio. This is one of the bi- 

 colored types. It was listed by Vaughan in 1908 and by 

 Webber 8s Don in 1911, and was considered at that time 

 to be equal to the standard old varieties in productive- 

 ness and quality. It had the additional feature, in which 

 it was to far surpass the others, of size and two-toned 



