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Dwarf varieties for market. — Wax-podded snaps : Hodson Wax, 

 Wingold, Keeney Rustless, Refugee Wax, Davis. Green-podded 

 snaps : Red Valentine, Hodson Green Pod, Refugee, Giant String- 

 less, Warren. Green-shell beans, excluding Limas : Crimson Beauty 

 (for early crop). Improved Goddard (for main crop). Ruby Horti- 

 cultural. Limas: Wood Prolific (for early crop). Wonder (for 

 main crop), Dreer (for late crop). 



Pole varieties for home use. — • Wax-podded snaps: Golden Car- 

 mine, Golden Cluster, Indian Chief. Green-podded snaps : Black 

 Kentucky Wonder, Creaseback (for early crop), Scotia, Lazy Wife. 

 Green-shell beans, excluding Limas : Lazy Wife, Golden Carmine, 

 Black Kentucky Wonder, Childs Horticultural. Limas : Wood Im- 

 proved (for early crop), Ideal (for main crop), Challenger (for 

 late crop). 



Pole varieties for viarket. — Wax-podded snaps : Indian Chief, 

 Kentucky Wonder Wax, Golden Carmine, Golden Cluster. Green- 

 podded snaps: Creaseback, Lazy Wife, Black Kentucky Wonder, 

 Scotia. Green-shell beans: London Horticultural, Childs Horti- 

 cultural, Brockton, Case Knife, Worcester Mammoth. Limas: 

 Wood Improved and Leviathan (for early crop). Challenger (for 

 late crop). Ideal (for main crop). 



Desirable Held varieties for dry-shell purposes. — Of the kidney 

 type: White Kidney, Prolific Pickler, Red Kidney. Of the mar- 

 row type : Vineless Marrow, White Marrow, Aroostook, China Red 

 Eye. Of the medium type: Burlingame. Of the pea type: Navy 

 and Snowflake. 



Desirable varieties for the caiuiiiig trade. — The canning and pick- 

 ling business in New York state is becoming an important industry. 

 Hundreds of acres of beans are annually grown to supply this trade. 

 While canners will accept various types, they prefer and will pay 

 a higher price for a uniform, green-podded sort of the type of 

 Refugee. This variety is more extensively grown for this purpose 

 than any other. Early Refugee, Golden Refugee and Red Valen- 

 tine are also used and are very profitable for such purpose. 



Little-knozvn meritorious varieties. — Dwarf wax-pods: Plodson 

 Wax, Keeney Rustless, Wingold, Burpee Kidney, Burpee White 

 Wax, Golden Crown, Jones Stringless, Stringless Refugee Wax, 

 Market Wax. Dwarf green-pods : Hodson Green Pod, Full Meas- 

 ure, Byer, Warren, Prolific Pickler, Triumph (for forcing). 



