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8. How is blight distinguished from anthracnose f SH : 155. 



9. What are the characteristics of bean rust f 



12. Harvesting and marketing. — Garden beans must be 

 picked by hand and it is important for the work to be done 

 when the pods are at the proper stage of development, or they 

 may become overripe and their quaUty will be sacrificed. This 

 statement applies to all varieties of garden beans. Snap beans 

 should produce about 200 bushels to the acre. They are mar- 

 keted in baskets of various types. 



1. When should garden beans be harvested ? 



2. How do you intend to market your crop ? W-VG : 242. 



3. What kind and how many packages will you need? 



C : 141-145. 



Project XVII. Growing Peas 



Peas are important members of the pea family, as the common 

 name of the family suggests. The plants either trail on the 

 ground or climb. The leaves are compound with one, two, or 

 three pairs of leaflets. The terminal leaflets and often the upper 

 lateral ones are modified into tendrils "for climbing. Stipules, 

 structures at the union of the leaf stalk and the stem, which in many 

 plants are small or lacking, are large and leaf-like in the pea plant. 

 The flowers are of the legume type. The fruit is a typical pod or 

 legume and contains the seeds which are commonly known as 

 " peas." There are two recognized types of peas. Garden peas 

 with white flowers and uniformly . colored seeds, and field peas 

 with colored flowers and seeds speckled with fine spots of various 

 colors. The garden peas may be divided into two groups, shellihg 

 peas and the edible podded or sugar peas. The shelling peas- are 



