APRIL, 1908 
On a truck farm near Savannah, 
the most suitable for the home garden because 
they can be grown with the least trouble, 
needing no supports. 
Beans are among the most satisfactory 
vegetables for the amateur gardener to grow 
because they give a greater return in the 
way of table supplies from a given area of 
ground than any other of the fresh green 
vegetables, and for lesslabor. ‘The time of 
endurance for one sowing is longer than 
with peas, and under favorable conditions 
perhaps two pecks of pods may be had from 
a row of fifty feet. From one sowing beans 
can be picked for at least two weeks. By 
succession sowings, beans can be had ap- 
proximately from about the middle of June 
until frost. 
THE SNAP-SHORT BUSH BEANS 
There are both green and yellow podded 
varieties of bean used in the young state. 
The portion sought is the flesh of the pod 
itself which is either broken, or cut into 
pieces, or sliced, and boiled in salted 
water. 
Of the green-podded bush beans, Mohawk, 
Round Yellow Six Weeks and Long Yellow 
Six Weeks are the best known. (These are 
green-podded.) They are all flat-podded, 
comparatively fleshless, with decided strings 
and considerable fibre, and though esteemed 
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The beans develop less muslin or fibre in the North, but the tougher varieties ship better 
as being useful for cool locations as well as 
for early spring and for fall crops, they are 
in fact no hardier and no earlier in season than 
the much more desirable, more fleshy round- 
podded sorts. 
Of the latter type we have Burpee’s 
Stringless Green Pod and Improved Round 
Pod Valentine, Giant Stringless Valentine, 
Extra Early Refugee, and the Refugee or 
Thousand-to-One. These come into bear- 
ing in the order named and by planting 
Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod, Extra Early 
Refugee, and Refugee at the same time, a 
continuous supply of young pods will be 
available over a period of fifteen days to 
four weeks under ordinary weather condi- 
tions. All these varieties have round, 
meaty pods, free from strings, but the pods 
become more or less curved during cold 
weather or if the growth of the plant has been 
stunted in any way. ‘Two little-known, but 
very fine-flavored sorts of this type are Blue 
Pod Butter, a German variety, with straight, 
almost flat, but fairly fleshy and stringless 
pods of a purplish tinge, and Crystal White 
Wax with very pale or whitish green pods 
of small size(three inches long) but solidly 
fleshy, brittle, tender, and of the most delicate 
flavor. ‘This is a late variety (like Refugee) 
and excellent for summer use. It is also 
known as the “ice bean” and “ivy bean,” 
the first name being descriptive of the pods 
and the latter of the small leaves. 
WAX OR YELLOW-PODDED BUSH BEANS 
Though the yellow, flat-podded bean is 
distinctly more fleshy than the green pod, 
there is the same inclination to develop 
both strings and muslin. Burpee’s White 
Wax is the best of the flat pods, having a 
straight fleshy pod four inches long, free 
from strings and fibre. This is an all-around 
variety, being useful as a snap-short, as a 
shell bean in the young stage (when the beans 
reach good size), or as a dry white bean for 
soup or baking. Other popular flat-podded 
sorts are Wardwell’s Kidney Wax, Currie’s 
Rust-proof Wax, and Golden Wax, which 
do not materially differ. 
Of the round, or meaty-podded, kinds the 
earliest is the Dwarf German Black Wax, 
maturing in six weeks. Pencil Pod Black 
Wax and Brittle Wax have long, straight, 
meaty pods of fine appearance and flavor 
and require seven to eight weeks to bear. 
Very late is Refugee Stringless Wax with 
small, but very tender pods and the finest 
flavor. Yosemite and Saddle Back have 
the most meaty pods, but they are apt to 
come distorted unless well grown. Davis 
White Wax and Hudson Wax have long hand- 
some pods of the most attractive appearance, 
