262 Gardening 
Fic. 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 rooo to r 
(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 exctl 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 
