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AMERICAN VARIETIES OF GARDEN BEANS. 



•Illustrations. — Dry seeds are illustrated on Plate I, 6, green shell pods are interme- 

 diate in shape between those of Concord Pole (PI. XX, 2) and Red Cranberry Pole 

 (PL XVIII, 3), and splashed about the same as Brockton Pole (PL XIX, 2). 



MISSOURI "WONDER. POLE. 



Listed by 2 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Field, 1904, 1905. 



Description. — Vine of large growth, of good climbing habit, much branched, thick 

 stemmed, wholly green, late, long in bearing, very heavily productive. Leaf small- 

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

 size, long, much curved, flat, medium green in color, of smooth surface, very tough, 

 very stringy, of much fiber, of poor quality, very free from anthracnose. Point of 

 pod medium in size and straight. Green shell pods generally solid light green, 

 sometimes splashed with faint red, much depressed between seeds, about 5| inches 

 long, and usually containing 7 seeds well separated in pod. Dry pods very easy to 

 thrash. Dry seeds medium in size, medium in length, nattish oval through cross 

 section, rounded or truncate at ends, generally slightly incurved at eye, pinkish drab 

 in color, striped and spotted with tan brown, and with minute reddish area around eye. 



Comparison. — Little known and planted and of but limited usefulness. Decidedly 

 too tough and thin walled for good snaps and too small seeded, narrow podded, and 

 unattractive for good green shell beans. Its usefulness, if any, seems to be for plant- 

 ing among corn for dry beans, but even for this purpose the white-seeded Royal Corn 

 and Lazy Wife are generally far better varieties, though perhaps not always so pro- 

 ductive and hardy. Most like Royal Corn and Southern Prolific, differing from 

 former principally in much earlier season, shorter, flatter shape, and faintly splashed 

 color when old. Pods quite similar in shape to Long Yellow Six Weeks Bush. 



History. — Introduced in 1903 by several western seedsmen. 



Illustrations. — Snap pods are similar in shape to Long Yellow Six Weeks (PL X, 1) 

 and cross sections of snap pods to Mohawk (PL V, 17). 



powell's prolific pole. 



Listed by 3 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Livingston, 1898-1902, 1905. 



Description. — Vine of very large growth, of good climbing habit, much branched, 

 very thick stemmed, often purplish tinged on stems, very late, very long in bearing 

 period, very heavily productive. Leaf large-medium in size, medium green in color. 

 Snap pods very uniform in size, long, fairly straight, round, deeply creasebacked, 

 light green in color, of very smooth and glossy surface, extremely brittle, stringy, of 

 small fiber, of good quality, free from anthracnose. Point of pod short and curved. 

 Green shell pods varying in color from almost solid green to almost solid purple, full 

 on outside between seeds, about 5f inches long, and usually containing 8 or 9 seeds 

 very crowded in pod. Dry pods very easy to thrash. Dry seeds small, proportion- 

 ally long, roundish oval through cross section, rounded or truncate at ends, straight 

 at eye, solid black to madder brown in color. 



Comparison. — Little known and planted. The latest in season, the largest in growth, 

 and where full crops can be obtained, probably the first in productiveness among 

 Kidney pole beans. Decidedly too late for general cultivation at the North, but excel- 

 lent at the South, where it makes the best show or exhibition variety, so far as large 

 growth and immense productiveness are concerned. Produces excellent snap beans 

 for either home or market, but for general reliability and usefulness Scotia, Black 

 Kentucky Wonder, and Lazy Wife are much better as late sorts for most parts of the 

 country. Pod and vine very similar to the late round-podded plants often found 

 in stocks of White Creaseback; also similar to Scotia and the fleshy round-podded 

 type of Southern Prolific. 



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