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AMERICAN VARIETIES OF GARDEN BEANS. 



Synonyms.— Corn Hill Pole, Cornfield Pole, Cut Short Pole. 



History. — Type apparently first known in this country as Corn Bean, later as Corn 

 Hill, and within the last ten or twenty years as Speckled Cut Short. The name 

 Corn Hill has been in use at least since 1835. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are illustrated on Plate I. 1; green shell pods on Plate 

 XVII, 1 and 4; cross section of snap pod is similar to Navy Pea (PI. V, 3), differing 

 principally in larger size. 



TENNESSEE WONDER POLE. 



Listed by 1 seedsman. Seeds tested: Landreth, 1905. 



Description. — Vine of small-medium growth, of good climbing habit, few to mod- 

 erately branched, slender stemmed, open in habit, purplish tinged in places on stems, 

 intermediate-early in season, of moderate bearing period, lightly productive. Leaf 

 large-medium in size, medium green in color, often purplish tinged. Flowers pink. 

 Snap pods variable in size, very long, very curved, decidedly scimiter shaped, much 

 curved at extreme blossom end, almost double barreled through cross section, deeply 

 creasebacked, medium green, of coarse and undulating surface, very brittle, of inap- 

 preciable string, without fiber, of good quality. Fairly free from anthracnose. Point 

 of pod long and curved. Green shell pods generally tinged with purple and splashed 

 with purplish red, much depressed on outside between seeds, of much wrinkled sur- 

 face, about 9| inches long, and usually containing 8 or 9 seeds fairly separated in pod. 

 Dry pods easy to thrash. Dry seeds large, extremely slender, flatfish oval through 

 cross section, invariably w,ell rounded at ends, straight or slightly incurved at eye, 

 very irregular in shape, generally more or less flattened, depressed, or bulged out in 

 places, slate gray in color marked throughout with long curved stripes of black olive 

 green, also minute area of same color around eye. 



Comparison. — Little known and cultivated. The largest, straightest, and most 

 handsome-podded of all cultivated beans, but compared to Kentucky Wonder its 

 pods are too late and decidedly too few in number for practical usefulness, and the 

 variety is really useful only as an exhibition or show bean. Pods, leaves, and stems 

 same color as Scotia, but quite different in other respects. Most like Kentucky Won- 

 der, differing principally in purplish tinged pods, leaves, and stems, and larger, 

 straighter, later, and more double-barreled pods. 



Synonym. — Holmes's Improved Sickle Pole. 



History. — Introduced in 1901 by D. Landreth Seed Company. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are illustrated on Plate III, 13; green shell pods and 

 cross sections of same are similar to Kentucky Wonder (PI. XV, 2, and PI. V, 25, 

 respectively). 



VIRGINIA CORNFIELD POLE. 



Listed by one seedsman. Seeds tested: Wood, 1905, 1906. 



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

 very thick stemmed, wholly green, very late, very long in bearing, very heavily pro- 

 ductive. Leaf medium in size, dark green in color. Flowers white. Snap pods uni- 

 form in size, long, much curved, very flat, medium green in color, of somewhat coarse 

 surface, very tough, very stringy, of much fiber, of poor quality, very free from anthrac- 

 nose. Point of pod medium in size and moderately curved. Green shell pods 

 generally solid green, sometimes sparingly splashed wih faint purple, moderately 

 depressed on outside between seeds, about 6| inches long, and usually containing 8 or 

 9 seeds somewhat separated in pod. Dry pods easy to thrash. Dry seeds of medium 

 size, proportionally short, oval through cross section, truncate or rounded at ends, 

 straight at eye, solid white. 



Comparison. — Little known, little cultivated, and of very limited usefulness. 

 Decidedly too late for planting at the North, much too tough and stringy for good 

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