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AMERICAN VARIETIES OF GARDEN BEANS. 



or some other large, flat-seeded sort, second place, and Henderson's 

 Bush, or some other small, flat-seeded sort, third place. 



Pole varieties of good quality. — More than half the green-podded 

 varieties and all the wax-podded pole sorts, except Golden Champion, 

 are of good quality as snaps. Burger's Stringless probably stands 

 first, after which comes Lazy Wife, then Arlington Cranberry, Golden 

 Carmine-Podded Horticultural Wax, Golden Cluster Wax, and Ken- 

 tucky Wonder Wax. The remarks already made on the quality of 

 green and dry shell beans of bush varieties apply also to pole sorts. 



Earliest and latest hush varieties for snaps. — For earliest green-colored 

 snaps: Warwick, Bountiful, Taylor's Green Pod, Ne Plus Ultra, and 

 Grenell's Stringless Green Pod. For earliest yellow-colored snaps: 

 Challenge Black Wax, Valentine Wax, Golden Wax, Improved Golden 

 Wax, Currie's Rustproof Wax. For latest green-colored snaps : 

 Galega, Hodson Green Pod, Late Refugee, Golden Refugee, Byer's 

 Bush. For latest yellow-colored snaps: Hodson Wax, Speckled 

 Wax, Burpee's White Wax, Refugee Wax. 



Earliest and latest pole varieties for snaps. — Earliest green-colored 

 snaps: White Creaseback, Burger's Stringless, Kentucky Wonder, 

 Arlington Red Cranberry. For earliest yellow-colored snaps : Golden 

 Champion Pole, Kentucky Wonder Wax, Golden Carmine-Podded 

 Horticultural. For latest green-colored snaps: Powell's Prolific, 

 White Sickle, Scotia, London Horticultural. For latest yellow- 

 colored snaps: Indian Chief, Mont d'Or, Andulusia Wax. 



Disease-resistant varieties. — As already explained, disease resistance 

 in bean varieties is subject to great variation. For this reason, advice 

 on selection can be given along general lines only, the most impor- 

 tant being that large, vigorous-growing, stringy, tough-podded, green- 

 podded, and field varieties are generally less subject to disease than 

 correspondingly small, frail-growing, stringless, brittle-podded, wax- 

 podded, and garden varieties. Conspicuous exceptions occur in all 

 these groups; for example, the tough-podded Davis Wax has of late 

 3^ears been more subject to rust and anthracnose than many tender- 

 podded wax varieties, and the green-podded Longfellow more sus- 

 ceptible to disease than many tenderer podded sorts of less vigor. 



Little-known hut desirable varieties. — Green-podded bush: Hodson 

 Green Pod, Byer's Bush, Warren Bush, Henderson's Full Measure, 

 Golden Refugee. Wax-podded bush : Hodson Wax, Maule's Nameless 

 Wax of 1906, Keeney's Rustless Golden Wax, Burpee's Kidney Wax, 

 Bismarck Black Wax, Golden Crown. Bush Lima: Wonder Bush, 

 Wood's Prolific Bush. Green-podded pole: Black Kentucky Wonder, 

 Scotia, Burger's Stringless, Powell's Prolific, White's Prolific. Wax- 

 podded pole: Golden Carmine-Podded Horticultural, Kentucky Won- 

 der Wax. Pole Lima: Henderson's Ideal, Leviathan, Wood's Im- 

 proved Pole. 



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