HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
GREEN-PODDED BUSH BEANS 
TpOR use as shelled beans. 
The following kinds are grown almost exclusively 
for the beans that develop in the pods, either in the dry 
or in the green stage. In cool northern sections, where 
Lima beans will not mature, they are gathered while 
green, shelled, and used alone or with corn as succotash. 
Red Kidney is the large kidney-shaped bean famous 
throughout New England for baking. Ripens in seventy- 
five days from date seeds are sown. Pods tough and 
stringy. 
Boston Pea Bean and White Marrowfat are both popular 
favorites yielding pure white beans of excellent cooking 
qualities. The last named develops tendrils, about 
twelve to eighteen inches long, often causing home gar- 
deners to think they planted pole beans. Do not cut 
off the tendrils. Stringy. 
Dwarf Horticultural (see illustration) is a large, plump, 
speckled bean of great favor around Boston. It is, per- 
haps, the heaviest yielder of all, ripens the crop in eighty 
or eighty-five days, and has by far the handsomest pods. 
Picked within the four-inch stage they may serve as 
“snap-shorts. ” 
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