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WAX-PODDED BUSH BEANS 



fHE Round-podded Kinds. 



~* To those who can see beauty in a humble vegetable 

 few sights are more pleasing than a panful of sym- 

 metrically curved, saddlebacked wax beans, full of 

 snap and flesh and juice! The round-podded sorts un- 

 questionably contain more water than the flat kinds and 

 are the easiest to get ready for the table. 



Brittle Wax (see illustration) may be considered the 

 pinnacle of perfection of those types of beans known to 

 many as Prolific German Black Wax, Round Pod Kidney 

 Wax, and others. Ready in sixty-five or seventy days 

 and bears for six weeks thereafter. 



Pencil Pod Wax is of the Prolific German Black Wax 

 types, but of a far greater adaptability to different soils. 

 Pods average slightly shorter (about five inches) than 

 those of Brittle Wax, but are produced in larger clusters. 



Keeney's Stringless Refugee Wax is the brother to 

 the green-podded type described on page 53. 



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