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Bountiful is an early bean of fair quality, popular in 
some sections. 
Red Valentine is one of the most extensively grown 
green-podded varieties. It is very prolific, reliable, an ex- 
cellent shipper and is used extensively for commercial can- 
ning and pickling. It is quite stringy and fibrous though 
not as much so as Black Valentine. 
296. Varieties of Green Shell Beans: 
Goddard is regarded the best green shell bean of the 
class known as the “dwarf horticultural.” It is an ex- 
cellent midseason variety. 
Dwarf Horticultural is better known than Goddard, 
but the latter is superior to it in every particular. 
297. Varieties of Wax-Podded Pole Beans: 
Golden Carmine, one of the best of the pole wax-podded 
varieties, is equally valuable for snap or green shell pur- 
poses and desirable for home use or for market. 
Golden Cluster is better known than Golden Carmine, 
but is regarded as inferior. 
Kentucky Wonder Wax, one of the newer introduc- 
tions of the pole snap class, is high in quality and fairly 
productive. 
298. Varieties of Green-Podded Pole Beans: 
Creaseback is a good early pole bean for snap purposes. 
It is moderately productive, fleshy, very brittle and of 
fair quality. 
Kentucky Wonder is an extensively grown variety, 
although C. D. Irish (Cornell Station, Bui. 260, p. 225) 
states, “It is not sufficiently productive, attractive nor 
resistant to be generally recommended.” 
Lazy Wife is valued for its stringless pods of high 
quality, as well as for a green shell bean. 
McCaslan and Burgers Stringless are newer varieties 
of good quality. 
299. Varieties of Pole Lima Beans: 
There are three types of lima beans; namely, the small 
