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snaps, and too small-seeded and slender-podded to be recommended as a good green 

 shell bean. Its value, if any, seems to be for planting among corn for dry beans in the 

 South, for which purpose it is better than the present type of Southern Prolific or Mis- 

 souri Wonder, as its seeds are pure white in color. Next to Powell's Prolific it is the 

 latest in season and makes the largest growth of any variety listed by American seeds- 

 men. More like the long flat-podded type of Southern Prolific than any other variety. 

 Similar in general character and usefulness to Missouri Wonder and Royal Corn. 

 History. — Introduced in 1905 by T. W. Wood & Sons. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds resemble Royal Corn (PI. IV, 8), differing principally in 

 larger size; green shell pods resemble the long flat-podded type of Southern Prolific 

 (PI. XVI, 1), differing principally in being wider and natter. 



WHITE CREASE BACK POLE. 



Listed by 82 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Armsby, 1906; Burpee, 1897, 1901, 1905; 

 Ferry, 1900, 1902; Fish, 1905; Lompoc, 1906; May, 1905, 1906; Morse, 1906; Rice, 

 1905, 1906; Rogers, 1904; Routzahn, 1905; Steckler, 1905. 



Description of early or true type. — Vine small in growth, at first often bushlike in 

 habit but climbing well when once started, few branched, slender stemmed, green 

 throughout, very early, short in bearing period, moderately to lightly productive. 

 Leaf of medium size, of medium green color. Snap pods very uniform in size, long- 

 medium, fairly straight, of exceedingly smooth surface, round, often double barreled 

 or greater in diameter from side to side than from suture to suture, generally deeply 

 creasebacked but sometimes flat at back and front at green shell stage, medium green 

 in color, extremely brittle, stringy, of small fiber, of very good quality, quite free from 

 anthracnose. Point of pod short and curved. . Green shell pods generally solid green, 

 sometimes sparingly splashed with faint purple, fuil on outside between seeds, about 

 5 inches long, and usually containing 7 seeds crowded in pod. Dry pods easy to 

 thrash. Dry seeds small, of medium length, roundish through cross section, generally 

 more or less truncate at ends, straight at eye, solid white. 



Description of late type. — Same as above except vine very large in growth, much 

 branched, thick stemmed, very late, long in bearing, heavily productive, and pods 

 long. 



1 Comparison of early and late types. — One of the five most generally cultivated Kidney 

 pole beans and largely planted in all parts of the country, especially the South. Pres- 

 ent day stocks are much mixed and confused and usually consist either of an early 

 or late type, or a mixture of both. The early type, which is the original true variety, 

 is the earliest of the pole sorts to produce snap pods, and ranks equally with Kentucky 

 Wonder and Burger's Stringless as the best extremely early snap bean for home or 

 market. It should be similar in growth of vine and a few days earlier in season than 

 Kentucky Wonder. Its pods should be a little smaller and of about the same shape as 

 Powell's Prolific, and similar also to those of Scotia Pole and Byer's Bush. The pods 

 of the late type are usually similar to the true strain, and generally differ only in • 

 slightly larger size. In some very degenerated stocks, however, the pods are very flat, 

 but whatever the shape of pods, the season is always very late and the vines very large 

 and coarse, so much so that in mixtures of the two types the frail slender plants of the 

 early type are generally crowded out and rendered useless. The late type is similar in 

 season, vine, and pod to Powell's Prolific, differing principally in the wholly green 

 color of its pods and vines, its pure white seed, and not quite so late season. Gardeners 

 who seek earliness will find the late type to be a great disappointment and perhaps a 

 great loss. For these reasons seedsmen should see that they not only have the right 

 type but that their stocks are free from late plants. 



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