Abstract
AT the request of the Ministry of Agriculture the Imperial Bureau of Horticulture and Plantation Crops, East Mailing, has issued a bulletin compiled by G. St. Clair Feilden, on haricot beans (Occasional Paper No. 6. Is.). Hitherto cheap supplies of beans from North America, Japan and Hungary have discouraged farmers in the United Kingdom from embarking on a crop that proves only fully successful in a dry summer. In war-time, however, it seemed advisable to re-examine the possibility of providing such a valuable addition to the nation's food, and yields of one ton or more per acre were obtained in trials made in 1940. The bulletin contains a brief account of work with haricots in the United States and Canada and of the results of experiments in England at various centres. Cultivation is outlined and harvesting and cooking methods are described. The varieties at present available, though they did well in England in 1940, are really more suited to warmer and drier climates, and it is to be hoped that some growers will become sufficiently interested to hybridize and select strains that are more dependable to ripen a full crop in Great Britain.
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Haricot Beans. Nature 147, 507 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147507a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147507a0