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FIG. 145. The Kentucky Wonder bean yields abundantly, it is excellent in 

 quality, either as pod or shell beans, and the ripened beans may be used for bak- 

 ing. 



Kidney or string beans. According to the color of the 

 immature pods, string beans are divided into the green- 

 podded and the wax-podded sorts. There are dwarf and 

 pole varieties of each sort, and some varieties are more 

 nearly stringless than others. The beginner should 

 plant such standard kinds of the bush varieties as 

 Stringless Green Pod, Improved Golden Wax, and 1000 to i 

 (also called Late Refugee) ; and for a pole variety, he 

 may well plant Kentucky Wonder. The Tennessee Green 

 Pod is a bush variety that is said to excel all other string 

 beans in flavor. 



As the seeds of kidney beans become larger and more 

 mature, the pod portion becomes thinner, less juicy, and 

 drier. While the seeds are still soft, they may be shelled 



