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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1918 



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(Concluded from page 40) 



iune day. They were a baking sort of white 

 ean, larger than common, blunt ended; T 

 got them by the pound at a chain-of-stores gro- 

 cery, and the family had eaten most of them 

 before I mobilized them as seed. They ger- 

 minated 100 per cent.; then the cut worms 

 took a third of them. I planted again from 

 the current food-stock, a large old-rose sort 

 pf cranberry bean. (This latter variety is 

 much grown by Sicilians here in this coalfield, 

 used green for summer, and also dried; 

 they cook it with macaroni and a dash of 

 cheese.) 



The cranberry variety has done well, and I 

 am canning the young shelled beans as I do 

 limas. But the chain-store white beans are a 

 valuable sort, unknown to anybody about 

 here. They make pods of a golden white, 

 ten or eleven inches long and almost an inch 

 broad, set with six to nine beans, their pods 

 of the appearance of best pie crust. As a 

 string bean they are enormously prolific, hand- 

 some, and would command double prices from 

 epicures, as beside tender quality they have 

 a butter-and-mushrooms flavor. Shelled 

 young beans of this sort keep the mushroom 

 flavor also. It seems a thoroughly dis- 

 tinct variety; three vines of it broke to green 

 pods with an occasional yellow, probably 

 from mixed ancestry. I am saving plenty of 

 seed of the pure yellow plants, to grow an- 

 other year. But can any reader of The Gar- 

 den Magazine tell me what the bean is, and 

 whether it comes from California, Mexico, or 

 Japan? 



Another visitor to our midst is the "butter- 

 bean," seed being furnished for it by a Dutch- 

 man. It is a pole bean of rather glossy foliage 

 and conspicuous tufts of gay white and yellow- 

 ish flowers, an enormous bearer, its beans are 

 better than the Sieva limas though nearly 

 like them in appearance when cooked. The 

 catalogue name of this sort, if it has one, no- 

 body knows here. 



It is my guess that the very high prices of 

 hitherto cheap foods forced merchants sup- 

 plying industrial populations to rake and 

 scrape the corners of the accessible world last 

 year in their efforts to keep up stock of grades 

 of food which they could sell at something 

 like accustomed figures. Beans with a re- 

 stricted local circulation were possibly in 

 considerable stock here and there, and tons of 

 them were picked up cheaper than grades 

 and colors known to all grocers and all houses- 

 wives and to army and navy contractors. 

 Evidently they were not kiln dried; prob- 

 ably the trade did not consider them as 

 "standard." 



I foresee that I shall in 1918 plant a few 

 specimens of every queer new bean that I 

 buy for the pantry. I shall establish a Hag- 

 enbeck's Menagerie of beans from every 

 quarter of the globe, for the pleasure of seeing 

 what comes of what. Some of them may 

 turn out valuable domestic animals, like the 

 giant-podded pie-crust bean of this year's dis- 



covery. 



Pittson, Pa. 



E. S. Johnson. 



— The chain store white bean (of which 

 samples were sent) is the old Golden Cluster 

 Wax. The occasional green pods are " rogues " 

 and may be expected to occur in any 

 neglected strain of Wax Beans, which is 

 the reason why a gardener should buy seeds 

 direct from a regular seedsman and not from 

 a hardware dealer, nor even from the corner 

 grocery. Possibly the "butterbean" (no 

 samples sent) is the old Challenger or Potato 

 Lima. — Ed. 



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