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GREEN-PODDED BUSH BEANS 



J?OR use as shelled beans. 



The following kinds are grown almost exclusively 

 for the beans that develop in the pods, either in the dry 

 or in the green stage. In cool northern sections, where 

 Lima beans will not mature, they are gathered while 

 green, shelled, and used alone or with corn as succotash. 



Red Kidney is the large kidney-shaped bean famous 

 throughout New England for baking. Ripens in seventy- 

 five days from date seeds are sown. Pods tough and 

 stringy. 



Boston Pea Bean and White Marrowfat are both popular 

 favorites yielding pure white beans of excellent cooking 

 qualities. The last named develops tendrils, about 

 twelve to eighteen inches long, often causing home gar- 

 deners to think they planted pole beans. Do not cut 

 off the tendrils. Stringy. 



Dwarf Horticultural (see illustration) is a large, plump, 

 speckled bean of great favor around Boston. It is, per- 

 haps, the heaviest yielder of all, ripens the crop in eighty 

 or eighty-five days, and has by far the handsomest pods. 

 Picked within the four-inch stage they may serve as 

 "snap-shorts." 



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