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POLE BEANS— GREEN-PODDED KINDS 
S AMONG the bush beans, the pole beans supply us 
with both green and yellow or wax-podded kinds, 
to please our fancies. Most pole beans produce pods 
much longer in size than bush beans. This is particularly 
true among the green-podded kinds. 
Old Homestead or Kentucky Wonder is the most popular 
and, perhaps, most prolific, considering size of pods and 
number of pods per plant. 
Powell’s Prolific bears shorter pods, but is earlier and 
produces more of them. 
McCaslan, as illustrated herewith, is an extra early 
kind of exceptional size and stringless until it becomes six 
inches or more in length. Within sixty days from date of 
planting in warm rich soil it will bear two quarts of beans 
per plant. 
Lazy Wife is another prolific sort bearing great clusters 
of medium-sized pods that are perfectly stringless while 
young. 
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