KIDNEY BEANS. 



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splashed with bright red, sometimes a large part of pod without splashing, much 

 sunken on outside between seeds, about 7.\ inches long, and usually containing 6 or 7 

 seeds fairly separated in pod. Dry pods fairly easy to thrash. Dry seeds large, a 

 little longer than wide, rounded oval through cross section, generally well rounded at 

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

 but sometimes with dark purple. 



Comparison. — New and as yet not generally cultivated but rapidly gaining in popu- 

 larity. The best and most handsome all-round pole sort for snaps, green shell, and 

 dry shell beans for home or market. When well grown the pods are the most bril- 

 liantly splashed of all pole varieties, but they have the undesirable feature of being 

 much undersized, bent, and twisted when not well grown and of being hardly colored 

 at all when the weather is cloudy or the season very wet. Pods quite different from 

 other pole varieties, but perhaps as much like Worcester Mammoth as any, differing 

 principally in more open habit, greater earliness, and larger pods of different color. 



Synonym. — Gold and Carmine Pole. 



History. — Introduced by seedsmen in 1904 and originated by Rogers Brothers, of 

 Chaumont, N. Y. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are shown on Plate I, 11; cross sections of snap pods are 

 similar to Golden Cluster Wax Pole (PI. V, 27), and snap pods similar in shape to Ken- 

 tucky Wonder Wax Pole (PI. XVI, 3), differing principally in considerably wider 

 pods and much longer pod point; green shell pods are splashed as brilliantly as those 

 of Extra Early Horticultural Pole (PI. XV, 1). 



GOLDEN CHAMPION WAX POLE. 



Listed by 9 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Ferry, 1902; Henderson, 1897, 1905. 



Description. — Vine of small growth, of poor climbing habit, moderately branched, 

 slender stemmed for a pole bean, very yellowish at stems, very early, lightly to mod- 

 erately productive, of short bearing period. Leaf very light yellow, medium in size. 

 Flowers pink. Snap pods uniform in size, long, very much curved, round, very 

 whitish yellow, of somewhat smooth surface, somewhat tough, stringy, of moderate 

 fiber, of fair quality, fairly free from anthracnose. Point of pod very long, very 

 curved. Green shell pods never colored or splashed, full on outside between seeds, 

 about 6f inches long, and usually containing 7 seeds very crowded in pod. Dry pods 

 easy to thrash. Dry seeds large-medium, slender, flattish oval through cross section, 

 rounded or truncate at ends, generally decidedly incurved at eye, mostly solid black- 

 ish blue in color, tinged sometimes with maroon or brown shades. 



Comparison. — Formerly quite popular but now little planted. Decidedly lacking 

 in productiveness, hardiness, and sure cropping qualities and apparently of no special 

 value except possibly for earliness, though even in this respect Kentucky Wonder 

 Wax is almost equal to it, besides immensely more productive, hardier, and a surer 

 cropper. Being somewhat tough and stringy, it can not be recommended as a first- 

 class snap bean for home use. Most like Andalusia Wax, differing principally in 

 smaller, earlier vine, and longer, rounder, better rilled, more whitish yellow pods, 

 which are almost identical with those of Bismarck Black Wax Bush. 



History. — Introduced in 1890 by Peter Henderson & Co., and described by them as 

 of European origin. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are illustrated on Plate II, 28; snap pods on Plate XVI, 

 5; cross section of snap pod resembles in shape that of the round-podded type of 

 Refugee (PI. V, 12). 



GOLDEN CLUSTER WAX POLE. 



Listed by 109 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Burpee, 1901; Ferry, 1902, 1903; Fish, 1903, 

 1904, 1906; McClure, 1903; Rice, 1905, 1906; Thorburn, 1903, 1905. 

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