HOW TO CHOOSE SEEDS 



them are eaten pod, bean, and all ; in others we use 

 only the bean. "String Beans" are eaten pod and 

 all they come in green and yellow and white 

 (wax) skinned varieties. For years and years peo- 

 ple have tried to get a variety that does not have a 

 "string" down the side of the pod for strings are 

 very unpleasant to eat. All this work has been suc- 

 cessful for we now have "stringless" beans and they 

 are very, very good. Plant the bush varieties for 

 they are as good as the climbers. 



Shell Beans are the same as "string beans" only 

 we allow them to grow a little longer to fatten, then 

 take them out of the shell. Lima Beans are quite 

 large and are very different from the string beans. 

 In the olden times they always grew on tall vines, 

 but now we have them on small bushes and they 

 are just as good as the climbers. They are taken 

 out of the shell before cooking. Beans of course 

 are seeds. 



Corn is another seed we eat, but people use only 

 the sweet or sugar corn for eating, either fresh or 

 canned. Field corn is ground into corn meal and 

 fed to animals. Some sweet corn is white, some 

 yellow, and some black; some even pinkish; and 

 there are early, medium, and late varieties. If you 

 should plant both medium white and medium black 



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