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AMERICAN VARIETIES OF GARDEN BEANS. 



Comparison. — New and as yet little known and planted. Differs from Hodson 

 Wax only in color of pod and, like that variety, is too tough for home use, but, its 

 pods being extremely large, very handsome, and excellent shippers and the plant 

 usually the most productive, strongest, and rankest grower of all the green-podded 

 bush sorts, it makes a good market gardener's sort for late crops. More like Galega 

 than any other of the green-podded varieties, differing principally in earlier season 

 and larger, flatter pods. 



History. — Introduced in 1906 by 0. W. Clark & Son, who state the variety was 

 found in a field of Hodson Wax. . v 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are same as Hodson Wax (PI. I, 19); snap pods and cross 

 section of same are similar in shape to Currie's Rustproof Wax (PI. VIII, 1, and PI. 

 V, 10, respectively), differing principally in being longer and much natter. 



IMPROVED GODDARD. 



Listed by 7 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Ferry, 1898, 1900-1902, 1904, 1905. 



Description. — Plant large, very erect, with long stems holding plant well up from 

 ground, without runners or spreading branches, 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 very 

 uniform in size, very long, straight, flat, dark green, tough, very stringy, of much 

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

 either straight or slightly curved. Green shell pods borne both above and below 

 foliage, abundantly splashed with brilliant red, moderately depressed between seeds, 

 about 7 inches long, and usually containing 6 seeds fairly close 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. — One of the lesser grown varieties of the country and much less planted 

 than the old Goddard or Boston Favorite, although much superior to it in earliness 

 and uniformly large, straight, handsome pods. Decidedly the best all-round strictly 

 green shell bean and the best, largest, and most handsome show variety for green shell 

 beans, as well as the most productive of the Horticultural class, but unsuitable for 

 snaps or for field culture. Most like Crimson Beauty, differing principally in produc- 

 tiveness, later season, and larger pods. 



History. — Introduced in 1897 by D. M. Ferry & Co., and described as a selection 

 from Boston Favorite or Goddard. 



Illustrations. — Green shell pods are shown on Plate XIV, 3; seeds are about same 

 as Boston Favorite (PI. I, 26); cross sections of snap pods are similar to Mohawk 

 (PL V, 17), differing principally in considerably flatter shape and larger size. 



IMPROVED YELLOW EYE. 



Listed by 11 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Schlegel & Fottler, 1905. 



Description. — Plant large, very spreading, with many runners lying loosely over 

 ground, thick stemmed, green throughout, intermediate-early, long bearing, moder- 

 ately productive. Leaf medium in size, medium green in color. Flowers pinkish 

 white. Snap pods are somewhat variable in size, long-medium, slightly curved, very 

 flat, becoming roundish at green shell stage, light green, very tough and stringy, of 

 much fiber, of poor quality, free from anthracnose. Point of pod medium in length 

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

 never splashed or colored, much depressed between seeds, about 5f inches long, and 

 usually containing 5 or 6 seeds fairly close in pod. Dry pods easy to thrash. Dry 

 seeds of medium size, proportionally short, roundish through cross section, truncate 

 or rounded at ends, often larger at one end than at the other, straight or rounded at 



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