Janet Tweedy wrote:

Also "vale of tears" beans supposedly taken by the Indians when
they were marched off their lands to those awful reservations. I can see
why they didn't want to go if they only had those beans for company.

Curiously, I have "Cherokee Trail of Tears," which is a quite nice pole
bean. Did well in my usual scheme of six poles in a teepee. I have a nice
stand of maple saplings out in back; call it my bean pole farm.


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G