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AMERICAN VARIETIES OF GARDEN BEANS. 



very long, straight, oval-flat through cross section, dark green, somewhat tough, 

 stringy, of moderate fiber, of poor to fair quality, quite free from anthracnose. 

 Point of pod straight and medium in size. Green shell pods borne mostly below 

 foliage, splashed with reddish purple, quite full on outside between seeds, about 6| 

 inches long, and usually containing 7 seeds crowded in pod. Dry pods very easy to 

 thrash. Dry seeds of medium size, somewhat slender, oval through cross section, 

 generally rounded at ends, straight at eye, bluish black in color, fairly splashed with 

 pale buff. 



Comparison—This variety, which has never been popular in America, has now 

 almost gone out of cultivation. On account of extremely late season it is of very 

 limited value, although unsurpassed among strictly garden varieties for productive- 

 ness, large growth of vine, and uniformity in size and shape of its very large, straight, 

 handsome pods. Similar in general usefulness and value to Hodson Green Pod and 

 more like it in appearance than any other, differing principally in larger, slenderer 

 stemmed plants, with straighter, shorter, thicker, proportionally narrower pods. 

 Differs from Refugee principally in color of seed, larger, later vine, and longer, flatter, 

 tougher pods. 



Synonym. — Galega Refugee. , 



History. — Listed by American seedsmen under this name at least since 1880. Prob- 

 ably a very old type. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are shown on Plate III, 7; leaf on Plate XXIV, 1; snap 

 pods are more like those of Mohawk (PI. XII, 4) than any of illustrations, differing in 

 narrower but considerably longer shape, besides being splashed at green shell stage. 



GARDEN PRIDE. 



No longer listed by American seedsmen. Seeds tested: Jones, 1903-1905; Keeney, 

 1906; Vaughan, 1904, 1905. 



Description. — Plant small-medium, slightly spreading, without runners or decided 

 spreading branches, somewhat slender stemmed, green throughout, early-interme- 

 diate in season, of moderate bearing period, moderately productive. Leaf medium 

 in size, light green in color. Flowers white. Snap pods uniform in size, medium in 

 length, scimiter curved, oval-round through cross section, light green in color, brittle, 

 stringless, without fiber, of good quality, somewhat subject to anthracnose. Point of 

 pod long, imperfectly defined, generally curved. Green shell pods borne equally 

 above and below foliage, never splashed or colored, slightly depressed on outside 

 between seeds, about 5 inches long, and usually containing 6 seeds crowded in pod. 

 Dry pods hard to thrash. Dry seeds of medium size, somewhat slender, roundish 

 through cross section, rounded or truncate at ends, almost straight at eye, sliver from 

 pod occasionally attached to eye, solid white except sometimes minute area of faint 

 yellow around eye. 



Comparison. — Little known and planted. Of usefulness similar to Red Valentine 

 and Burpee's Stringless Green Pod, and although not quite so productive it has some 

 value over others of its class because of pure white seed. Vine similar to Bountiful, 

 differing principally in less spreading habit, while pods are almost same in appearance 

 as Jones's Green Pod but easily distinguished from it by the very light yellowish green 

 of its green shell pods. 



History. — Introduced in 1903 by the originator, A. N. Jones, of Leroy, N. Y. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are shown on Plate IV, 11 ; snap pods resemble Extra Early 

 Refugee (PI. VII, 2), differing principally in stringlessness, larger size, flatter shape, 

 lighter green color, and peculiar scimiter curvature of pod, which is decidedly curved 

 inward at extreme tip end and decidedly curved backward at extreme stem end. 



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