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WAX-PODDED BUSH BEANS 
'T y HE Round-podded Kinds. 
To those who can see beauty in a humble vegetable 
few sights are more pleasing than a panful of sym- 
metrically curved, saddlebacked wax beans, full of 
snap and flesh and juice! The round-podded sorts un- 
questionably contain more water than the flat kinds and 
are the easiest to get ready for the table. 
Brittle Wax (see illustration) may be considered the 
pinnacle of perfection of those types of beans known to 
many as Prolific German Black Wax, Round Pod Kidney 
Wax, and others. Ready in sixty-five or seventy days 
and bears for six weeks thereafter. 
Pencil Pod Wax is of the Prolific German Black Wax 
types, but of a far greater adaptability to different soils. 
Pods average slightly shorter (about five inches) than 
those of Brittle Wax, but are produced in larger clusters. 
Keeney’s Stringless Refugee Wax is the brother to 
the green-podded type described on page 53. 
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