Book excerpt: Excerpt from 23d Annual Catalogue of Celebrated Ok Seeds, 1904 I have made a cooking trial of your New Carmine Pole Bean as requested, and find that the young pods that we cooked as snap-shorts are extremely tender and mild in flavor, and quite as fine as any bean which we have ever used in this way during the late summer months. As a shell bean, I find they cook very nicely, quite dry and of a mild, chestnutty flavor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.