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AMERICAN VARIETIES OF GARDEN BEANS. 



Illustrations. — Snap pods and cross section of same are shown on Plate XIII, 1, and 

 Plate V, 9. respectively; new and old seed are same color, shape, and size as Long Yel- 

 low Six Weeks (PI. Ill, 18). 



BROWN SWEDISH FIELD. 



Listed by 2 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Isbell, 1905; Northrup, King, & Co.,, 1905, 

 1906. 



Description of round-podded type.— Plant large-medium in size, very erect, without 

 runners or spreading branches, somewhat thick stemmed, green throughout, interme- 

 diate in season as snaps, early as field beans, long in bearing period, heavily produc- 

 tive. Leaf medium in size, medium green in color. Flowers light pink. Snap pods 

 uniform in size, short-medium, straight, oval-flat through cross section, becoming 

 round at green shell stage, light green, very tough, very stringy, of much fiber, poor in 

 quality, free from anthracnose. Point of pod short and slightly curved. Green shell 

 pods borne both above and below foliage, never colored or splashed, much depressed 

 between seeds, about 5f inches long, and usually containing 5 or 6 seeds crowded in 

 pod. Dry pods easy to thrash. Dry seeds of medium size, proportionally short, 

 roundish through cross section, truncate or rounded at ends, generally larger at one end 

 than at other, rounded or flat at eye, solid brownish ocher in color except minute 

 brownish area around eye. 



Description of flat-podded type. — This type is larger in vine, a little later in season, 

 often inclined to spread and send out runnerlike branches, and with pods and seeds 

 much larger and flatter than above type. 



Comparison of round and flat podded types. — This name is somewhat loosely applied 

 to a number of brown-colored beans brought over to this country by Swedish immi- 

 grants and grown to a limited extent in the Northwest, where there is a demand 

 for them among the foreign population. All are strictly dry shell varieties and too 

 tough and stringy for good snaps, while as green shell beans they are too small seeded 

 and too narrow podded to compare well with such green shell varieties as Improved 

 Goddard. The round-podded type here described is most like China Red Eye, dif- 

 fering principally in color and shape of seed and in shorter, straighter, more oval 

 pods, while the flat-podded type is most like Long Yellow Six Weeks, differing prin- 

 cipally in color of seed, in smaller, narrower pods, and in larger, more spreading vines. 



History. — Name appears to have been first recognized in seed catalogues about 

 1890 by Northrup, King & Co., although probably in use among produce trade some 

 time before this date. 



Illustrations of round-podded type. — Dry seeds are shown on Plate II, 3; snap pods 

 are of similar shape to Round Yellow Six Weeks (PI. XIII, 5), differing principally 

 in being flatter and with seeds less crowded in pod. 



Illustrations of flat-podded type. — Dry seeds are same in color as the round-podded 

 type described above and similar in shape to Long Yellow Six Weeks (PI. Ill, 

 18); snap pods are also similar in shape to Long Yellow Six Weeks (PL X, 1), dif- 

 fering principally in being narrower and shorter; cross sections of snap pods are 

 similar to Mohawk (PL V, 17), differing principally in smaller and flatter shape. 



burpee's stringless green pod. 



Listed by 156 seedmen. Seeds tested: F. W. Bolgiano, 1903; Burpee, 1897, 

 1899-1902, 1906; Dibble, 1905; Ferry, 1902; Keeney, 1904-1906; Philipps, 1903; 

 Rogers, 1904; Thorburn, 1901, 1902; Vaughan, 1903. 



Description. — Plant large-medium, very erect when young, with a few shoots high 

 above plant, but more or less drooping or spreading when fully grown; without run- 

 ners, thick stemmed, green throughout, early, of moderate bearing period, heavily 

 to moderately productive. Leaf medium in size, medium green in color. Flowers 



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