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AMERICAN VARIETIES OF GARDEN BEANS. 



BARTELDES'S BUSH LIMA. 



No longer listed by American seedsmen. Seeds tested: Denver Seed and Floral 

 Company, 1905. 



Description. — Plant very large, thick stemmed, with many long drooping fruit 

 branches, generally with only few runners, wholly green, early for a Multiflora variety, 

 very late compared to Kidney beans, long in bearing period, generally unproductive 

 in most parts of the country but heavily productive in certain soils and climates. 

 Leaf very large, dark green, fairly smooth. Exceedingly floriferous. Flowers white, 

 extremely large, several times larger than in Kidney varieties, 12 to 30 blossoms borne 

 on each of the numerous prominent flower stalks but only few flowers setting pods. 

 Snap pods varying greatly in size, generally long, much curved, flat, very short, very 

 dark green, of very rough surface, brittle, stringy, of moderate fiber, fair as to quality, 

 free from anthracnose. Green shell pods borne on large clusters well above foliage, 

 never colored or splashed, about 5| inches long, and usually containing 4 or 5 seeds 

 well separated in pod. Dry seeds very large, thickened, flattish oval through cross 

 section, mostly well rounded at ends, straight at eye, very smooth and glossy, solid 

 white, veining absent or indiscernible. 



Comparison. — Little known or planted. Grown mostly in California, Colorado, and 

 other parts of the West, where it seems to do well. Not strictly a Lima, being rather 

 a bush form of White Dutch Runner and similar to Aroostook Bush Lima previously 

 described, differing principally in larger vine, seed, and pod, greater productiveness, 

 and later season. Under right conditions, it gives green shell pods considerably before 

 White Dutch Runner Pole or the true bush Limas, but season and productiveness are 

 very uncertain in most parts of this country and its real usefulness is not yet fully 

 known. Its green shell beans are almost equal to Limas and its snap pods much supe- 

 rior to the tough Kidney varieties such as Black Valentine and Davis Wax. Prof. 

 L. H. Bailey states the roots are not always fleshy like those of White Dutch Runner 

 and therefore not truly perennial, though probably, with some selection, fleshy roots 

 and a perennial type could be obtained and perpetuated in such climates as southern 

 California. An earlier strain of this variety has recently appeared as Bush Multiflora. 



Synonyms. — California Butter (of Haines, Lee, etc.), Mexican Bush Lima. 



History. — First introduced about 1890 by F. Barteldes & Co., who state that the seed 

 came from Colorado. The variety was tested in 1886 by L. H. Bailey, who gives 

 a full description of it in Bulletin No. 87 of the Cornell University Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are illustrated on Plate IV, 25; cross sections of partially 

 developed green shell pods resemble White Dutch Runner (PL V, 32 and 33), as also 

 the green shell pods (PI. XVIII, 1), differing principally in larger size and flatter 

 shape. 



POLE VARIETIES. 



The important varieties of this species are all of the pole form, the 

 value of the bush forms being not yet fully established. For a com- 

 plete description of existing pole varieties the student should con- 

 sult English seed catalogues. 



SCARLET RUNNER POLE. 



Listed by 106 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Buckbee, 1900; Thorburn, 1901, 1902, 1905. 



Description. — Vine of very large growth, of fair climbing habit, moderately branched, 

 very thick stemmed, much tinged with purple at stems, very long in bearing, mod- 

 erately productive. Leaf of medium size, very dark green, with under side of veins 



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