KIDNEY BEANS. 



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curved, flat, deeply creasebacked, medium green in color, of coarse surface, brit- 

 tle, stringy, of small liber, of good quality, fairly free from antliracnose. Point 

 .of pod long and curved. Green shell pods generally sparingly splashed with faint 

 purple, somewhat depressed on outside between seeds, about 7 inches long, and 

 usually containing 7 or S seeds fairly close in pod. Dry pods easy to thrash. Dry 

 seeds large, long, flatfish oval through cross section, rounded or truncate at ends, gen- 

 erally straight at eye, somewhat irregular in shape, often bent or bulged out on one 

 side, putty colored with golden -bronze green stripes and also minute area of yellow 

 ocher around eye. 



Comparison. — Little known and cultivated. Excellent as snaps and green shell 

 beans for home or market. The best variety for late snaps in places where Black 

 Kentucky Wonder and extremely late varieties do not mature full crops. Ranks 

 almost equally with Lazy AVife and Arlington Red Cranberry as a general-purpose 

 snap and green shell bean. After Black Kentucky Wonder the pods most resemble 

 Burger's Stringless. Kentucky Wonder, and Tennessee Wonder. Very similar to the 

 English variety known as Sutton's Epicure. 



Synonyms. — Noxall Pole, Rhode Island Butter Pole. 



History. — Of uncertain origin and name. Some writers mention a variety of this 

 name as early as 1850; others give it a later origin, claiming the type first originated 

 with Fulton S. White, of Birmingham. Ala., or else in the West: while still others 

 claim it to be renamed from Rhode Island Butter Pole. Name has been in use among 

 American seedsmen at least since 1878. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are illustrated on Plate II. 20, and snap pods on Plate 

 XVIII, 2: cross sections of snap pods resemble in shape Kentucky Wonder Wax 

 Pole (PI. V. 26). 



WORCESTER MAMMOTH POLE. 



Listed by 6 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Rawson, 1897, 1901. 1904: Ross, 1904-1906. 



Description. — Vine of large growth, of poor climbing habit when young but climbing 

 well when once started, very thick stemmed, moderately branched, green through- 

 out, intermediate-late in season, long in bearing, moderately productive. Leaf very 

 large, very dark green. Flowers pink. Snap pods varying in size, long, fairly 

 straight, extremely large through cross section, flat, becoming almost round at green 

 shell stage, of coarse surface, brittle, stringless. of inappreciable fiber, of good quality, 

 fairly free from anthracnose. Point of pod very long, slender, and inclined to curl 

 and twist. Green shell pods abundantly but not distinctly splashed with red, much 

 depressed on outside between seeds, about 7 inches long, and usually containing 5 to 

 7 seeds very crowded in pod. Dry pods somewhat hard to thrash. Dry seeds very 

 large, very much thickened, roundish oval through cross section, truncate or rounded 

 at ends, rounded or full at eye. pale buff in color, freely splashed with purplish red. 



Comparison. — One of the lesser grown A-arieties of the country. Succeeds best and 

 is more largely planted in New England than in any other section. Although the 

 largest seeded, thickest podded,' and the most showy of the Horticultural class, it has 

 always been an uncertain cropper in our trials and not so reliable as London Horticul- 

 tural-, or Childs's Horticultural, but where it grows to full perfection it is probably the 

 best of the Horticultural varieties. Rarely as productive as Lazy AVife. Red Cran- 

 berry, Scotia, or Black Kentucky Wonder. More like Golden Carmine-Podded 

 Horticultural than any other variety. Great differences exist in stocks, some of the 

 poorer strains being almost as small podded and small seeded as London Horticul- 

 tural or only one-half the size of the true type described above. 



Synonyms. — Hampton Pole, King Horticultural Pole, Mammoth Horticultural Pole, 

 Mugwump Pole. Shakers Pole. 



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