KIDNEY BEANS. 



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BOSTON FAVORITE. 



Listed by 30 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Gregory, 1905; Rogers, 1904. 



Description. — Plant very large, very spreading with, moderate number of runners, 

 thick stemmed, green throughout, late-intermediate in season, long to moderate in 

 bearing period, heavily productive. Leaf medium in size, medium green in color; 

 flowers light pink, snap pods varying greatly in size and shape, generally long, 

 occasionally short, slightly curved, flat, medium green, tough, stringy, of much fiber, 

 of poor quality, very free from anthracnose. Point of pod medium in length and 

 either straight or slightly curved. Green shell pods borne mostly below foliage, 

 abundantly splashed with brilliant red, much depressed on outside between seeds, 

 about 6f inches long and usually containing 5 or 6 seeds somewhat separated in pod. 

 Dry pods easy to thrash. Dry seeds large, very long, oval through cross section, 

 invariably much rounded at ends, generally straight at eye, pale buff in color freely 

 splashed with purplish red. 



Comparison. — Largely planted in all parts of the United States, especially in New 

 England, but not one of the twelve most largely grown bush sorts. Too tough and 

 stringy for snaps and suitable only for green shell beans, though on account of the 

 large proportion of undersized and imperfect pods it is much inferior for this use to 

 Improved Goddard which it closely resembles, differing principally in more spreading 

 habit, later season, and smaller, more unevenly shaped pods. 



Synonyms. — Breck's Dwarf Horticultural, Goddard. 



History. — Introduced in 1885 by the former Aaron Low Seed Company. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are shown on Plate I, 26; green shell pods on Plate XIV, 4. 



BOUNTIFUL. 



Listed by 31 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Henderson, 1900-1902, 1905; Keeney, 

 1904-1906; Rogers, 1906. 



Description. — Plant large-medium, fairly erect when young, but often drooping 

 when fully grown, without runners or decided spreading branches, somewhat thick 

 stemmed, green throughout, very early, of moderate bearing period, heavily to mod- 

 erately productive. Leaf medium in size, very light green in color. Flowers light 

 pink. Snap pods uniform in size, very long, generally curved only at tip end, flat, 

 very light green in color, brittle, stringless, of inappreciable fiber, of good quality, 

 somewhat subject to anthracnose. Point of pod extremely long, slender, and slightly 

 curved or straight. Green shell pods borne both above and below foliage, never col- 

 ored or splashed, slightly depressed between seeds, about 6| inches long and usually 

 containing 6 to 8 seeds fairly close in pod. Dry pods generally easy to thrash. Dry 

 seeds medium in size, slender, roundish oval through cross section, truncate or rounded 

 at ends, straight or slightly incurved at eye, solid straw yellow in color, sometimes 

 shading to coppery yellow, always with minute brownish area around eye. 



Comparison. — Well known but not one of the twelve most largely grown bush varie- 

 ties. Rapidly gaining in popularity and largely replacing Long Yellow Six. Weeks, to 

 which it is much superior in quality, besides earlier and having larger, straighter pods. 

 Because of fine quality, it makes an excellent sort for home gardening, and being, with 

 the possible exception of Grenell's Stringless Green Pod and Hodson Green Pod, the 

 largest, most handsome, and even shaped of the flat, green-podded bush sorts, is excel- 

 lent also for market use. Of same usefulness as Grenell's Stringless Green Pod and 

 more like it in appearance than any other, differing in no important respects except in 

 color of seed, in season, and in light green foliage. 



Synonyms. — Breck's Boston Snap, Sutton's Plentiful (of English seed houses). 



History. — Introduced in 1899 by Peter Henderson & Co., who state the variety came 

 from D. G. Burlingame, of Genesee, N. Y. 

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