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Feas and Beans 



are grown both as a field crop and a garden crop. As a 

 garden crop they are used mostly as " string " beans, the 



pods being picked when they 

 are two-thirds grown, the pod 

 and beans together being 

 eaten. There are certain 

 strains of bush beans particu- 

 larly adapted to this use. 

 They are such as have thick 

 and fleshy pods, with very 

 little fibrous tissue in the 

 sutures. The pods of a good 

 string bean have no " strings." 

 The pods break cleanly in 

 two, and this gives rise to the 

 common name, "snap" beans. 

 The snap beans are again of 



137. Dutch case-knife (X about %). 



two ' groups — ^the green- 

 podded, represented by the 

 flageolets, and the yellow- 

 podded or wax beans 

 (Pigs. 133, 134, 135), the 

 popular in this 



more 



Flowers ot multiflora bean.— Scarlet 

 Runner (X %)■ 



country. 



In order that string beans may be of the best quality, 



