BEANS 



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For Bean lady-bird, Paris Green with lime as 

 above, or kerosene emulsion, as an underspray. For all 

 caterpillars, arsenites, hand picking. For boll-worm, 

 arsenites, late plowing. 



If arsenites are used with string beans, wash the pods 

 carefully before cooking. 



Varieties of Beans are innumerable. For cultural 

 purposes they divide into the classes which follow. 



Fig. 13. Seedlings of Broad Bean. Two-thirds natural size. 



Except the broad Bean, they are all tender to frost. 

 The only perennial is the Scarlet Runner. The pods of 

 the best snap Beans are waxy in texture, green or yellow 

 in color. Shell Beans are frequently mottled. 



(1) The Broad Bean (Vwia Faba), a shell Bean, of 

 which the best known type is the Windsor Bean, is the 



