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both wax and green-podded sorts 
of round and flat shape, were 
abused. They were picked imme- 
diately after rains and in the 
morning, with the heavy dew 
upon them. The results proved 
a triumph for the “Reigning 
Dozen” and especially for the five 
green-podded sorts. Only one 
among them, Fordhook Favorite, 
was affected slightly, while Boun- 
tiful showed the strongest resist- 
ance and Hodson Green and Hod- 
son Wax-podded proved practi- 
cally immune. Among the wax 
pods, Pencil Pod Black Wax 
rusted badly. But that sort is 
needed on account of its season 
of maturity which complements 
that of Brittle Wax to perfection, 
since the first few pickings of that sort 
are usually light. 
Hodson Green Pod competes with 
Bountiful for the beauty prize. The 
handsome, long, slim pods are surely 
the prettiest produced by any sort in its 
class. Up to the time when they be- 
come six and one half inches long, they 
are perfectly stringless, provided the 
season is favorable and pods develop 
rapidly. As they become fully devel- 
oped and grow old, they show a decided 
string—they develop a “backbone,” as 
my friend Mr. Keeney expresses it. 
But most anybody is willing to forgive 
that to a bean that behaves well until 
it’s overgrown! 
Bountiful, a leading type of Greenpod bean. 
Keeney’s Stringless Refugee is the 
shortest of the leading five green pods, 
but by far the most prolific late sort, 
considering the number of pods it 
yields. The drawback with ordinary 
strains of Refugee has always been 
their stringiness. After snapping hun- 
dreds of Stringless Refugee pods, I 
know that the perfectly stringless Refu- 
gee has materialized. 
Stringless White Wax is a factor to 
be reckoned with for the same reasons 
as Fordhook Favorite. It has pure 
white seeds and is perfectly stringless. 
It thus causes Davis White Wax to be- 
come antiquated and puts such sorts as 
Golden Hye Wax and Detroit Wax, 
Early and prolific 
which are of similar shape, but 
smaller and stringy, in the dis- 
card. 
Hodson Wax is identical in 
every way with Hodson Green 
Pod except that the pods average 
slightly shorter. This is offset, 
however, by its being several 
days earlier in perfecting its 
handsome pods which rival those 
of the New Kidney Wax in beauty 
and symmetrical shape, but not 
in quality, nor in the peculiar 
richness of the latter’s color. 
Keeney’s Stringless Refugee 
Wax is the brother to the green- 
podded sort mentioned above. It 
deserves the increased attention 
of discriminating planters who 
look for the best which human 
efforts to date have been able to produce 
in later maturing sorts. 
Here is a definite schedule for grow- 
ing beans which, if adhered to, will 
stand for perfectly stringless beans 
from early in July until frost. Early in 
May plant one row each of Bountiful, 
New Kidney Wax and Sure Crop Wax. 
Follow this two weeks later with a 15- 
foot row. each of Fordhook Favorite, 
Full Measure and Brittle Wax. Around 
June ist, repeat the first planting and 
wind up the bean plantings on June 15th 
by sowing a 15-foot row each of Hodson 
Green Pod, Hodson Wax and either of 
the Refugee Stringless. One half pint 
of seed of each sort will prove sufficient. 
Practical Plans for the Home Grounds—rurn vzan, evex 
XI. 
HE principle in planting which 
governs fitness for formal pools 
applies in much greater degree to 
informal ponds—the difference is 
in degree not in kind. About the brick 
or stone bordered pool of an architect- 
ural garden it is advisable to plant those 
flowers and shrubs which grow natively 
near water, but along the edge of a 
naturalistic pool it is imperative, if 
the pool is to possess the spirit of a real 
water side. 
No vegetation is quite so markedly 
characteristic of its habitat as that 
which grows near water. The grassy 
leaves of Cattails, Spike Rush and Iris, 
the luxuriant Marshmallow and swamp 
Milkweed, bending Willows, Alders and 
Birches, they all have a quality which 
is associated very definitely in our 
On Informal or Naturalistic Pools 
minds with streams and ponds, or 
or brooks and marshes. On the other 
hand such nurserymen’s shrubs as 
Lilac, Weigela, Golden Bell and Deutzia, 
with flowers like Hollyhocks, Snap- 
dragons and Nasturtiums, have a tame 
cat feeling which-is quite appropriate 
in a house garden, but which is out of 
keeping with a pool that is trying to 
capture a few of Nature’s water sprites. 
The luxuriant growth of the Lily pads needs a check in order to have some water 
surface clear for reflection 
The growth is not over luxuriant here and the result is more in keeping with the 
usual ideal of Water-lily growth 
