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and the fruits thus be kept off the ground. The 

 estimate of the probable growth was entirely too 

 low; the tomatoes finally attained a height of fully 

 seven feet from the ground. The beans attained 

 a similar height and the pods were always clean and 

 easy to gather. 



A simple tiellls for beans, peas, oi even tomatoes, that can be 

 knocked together when bean poles and brush are not available 



"The bush wax beans came to maturity at least 

 three weeks before the climbing kinds, and from 

 the twenty feet of row, we gathered five pecks. 

 While the bush beans were still in bearing, the 

 climbers matured their earliest pods, and in repeated 

 pickings, the last of which was made about the 

 middle of September, the vines produced two and 

 one-half bushels of as fine 'snap' beans as anyone 

 could desire. Two varieties were planted — one 



