KTDNEY BEANS. 



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depressed between seeds, about 6 inches long, and usually containing 8 to 10 seeds 

 somewhat close; in pod. Dry pods easy to thrash. Dry seeds small-medium, long, 

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

 varying in color from solid dark fawn in some beans to light fawn in others. 



Description of short fleshy-podded type. — See comparison below. 



Comparison of long and short-podded types. — About 1880 this bean was one of the 

 best known and most generally cultivated of the pole varieties, but to-day is only 

 little planted, and the variety, once brittle and fleshy-podded and excellent for snaps, 

 has degenerated into a mixture of tough-podded beans, generally containing more, 

 fiber and less suited for snaps than any other pole variety; at least, so far as our experi- 

 ments have been carried, no samples have shown any considerable number of the old. 

 fleshy pods of twenty years ago. Most -of present day stocks seem to consist largely 

 of the long flat-podded type described above or of pods about the shape of Navy Pea 

 but about twice as large, and more resembling Virginia Cornfield than any other pole 

 variety. Some present day stocks also contain a shorter and less flat-podded type, 

 somewhat resembling the old brittle-podded type, but decidedly too tough and 

 stringy for use as snaps, somewhat oval through cross section, and inclined to be 

 very reddish tinged at green shell stage. Besides above differences in pod, present 

 day stocks vary considerably also in the color of seeds. 



Synonym of long flat-podded type. — Willing's Pride Pole. 



History. — Listed in 1873 by D. Landreth Seed Company, although probably culti- 

 vated in the South before that time. 



Illustrations. — Light colored seeds are illustrated on Plate II, 2; cross section of the 

 old, true, fleshy-podded type on Plate V, 1; cross section of present long, flat-podded 

 type on Plate V, 2; green shell pods of the long, flat-podded type, the present short, 

 tough-podded type, and the old, short, fleshy-podded type on Plate XVI, 1, 2, and 

 4, respectively. 



SPECKLED CUT SHORT POLE. 



Listed by 101 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Ferry, 1898, 1900; Fish, 1903, 1904; Mc- 

 Clure, 1903; Thorburn, 1897, 1902. 



Description. — Vine of moderate to large growth, of good climbing habit, moderately 

 branching, somewhat thick stemmed, wholly green, intermediate-late in season, 

 long in bearing, heavily productive. Leaf small-medium in size, medium green in 

 color. Flowers white. Snap pods very uniform in size, very short, very straight, 

 decidedly bulged out in places, flat, becoming oval at green shell stage, medium 

 green in color, of smooth surface, somewhat tough, very stringy, of moderate fiber, 

 medium to poor in quality, fairly free from anthracnose. Point of pod short and very 

 straight. Green shell pods reddish tinged, much depressed on outside between 

 beans, about 4 inches long, and usually containing 7 seeds very crowded in pod. Dry 

 pods very easy to thrash. Dry seeds small, very short, sometimes wider than long, 

 oval through cross section, decidedly truncate and generally more obliquely than 

 squarely so, invariably straight at eye, irregular and variable in shape, dingy gray in 

 color, dotted or completely covered with purplish red around eye, at back, and one end. 



Comparison. — One of the 6 most largely cultivated Kidney pole beans. Probably 

 more largely used for planting among corn than any other variety and apparently 

 useful only for this purpose. Pods and seeds much too small and unattractive as 

 green shell beans for sale in market or for general use. Variety does not closely 

 resemble any other pole bean, but in shape and color of pods it is perhaps as much 

 like Lazy Wife as any, although much smaller. Pods also similar to those of Navy 

 Bush, differing principally in color, size, and with seeds more crowded in pod. 



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