PLANT LANDRETHS’ EXTRA EARLY STRINGLESS RED VALENTINE 
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BUSH BEANS—Green Pods—Continued 
Giant Stringless Green Pod—56 Days 
Color of seed, yellow. Long, cylindrical. Height 
of vine, 13 to 15 inches. Foliage resembles Full 
Measure, but is yellowish green. Not so early by 
2 or 3 days as the older Stringless. Pods round, 
meaty, similar to Stringless but slightly straighter 
and narrower. A more showy pod, about 6 inches 
long, containing 6 or 7 beans to the pod. Very 
popular with Canners. 
LANDRETHS* EXTRA EARLY STRINGLESS 
RED VALENTINE—54 Days 
This is an “old bean in a new pod,” as the 
Extra Early Red Valentine was catalogued by 
the Landreths first in 1832. After most dili¬ 
gent work for ten years in our trial grounds, 
we have produced a bean the same color, same 
shape, the same size, in all respects as the old 
Extra Early Red Valentine, except it is string¬ 
less and will fill a long felt want, as the Extra 
Early Red Valentine is one of the best known 
beans cultivated in the United States and con¬ 
sidered by many growers to be of superior 
flavor to any other bean in the market. It is 
productive, round podded, curved, stringless, 
free from fibers, and of excellent quality. Our 
new stringless variety is much superior for the 
home garden or shipping purposes, especially 
for the Southern States where the old Extra 
Early Red Valentine has been the most popular 
bean. We expect our new strain to take the 
place of the old stringy type. It is in every way 
equal to the old type Red Valentine and better 
because it is stringless. We developed this and 
are the first seedsmen to sell a Stringless Red 
Valentine. 
LANDRETHS’ STRINGLESS GREEN POD — 
54 Days 
This bean is from an individual plant Trial Ground 
selection from the Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod. 
We made a new selection ten years ago from one 
individual plant and have propagated it ever since, 
so that our stock is the product of this plant. The 
color of the seed is brown, kidney shaped; vine is 
more erect with a darker foliage and a longer slimmer 
pod than the old type of Burpee’s Stringless; pods 
and vines stay greener longer than the original type; 
pods six to eight inches long do not turn yellow, 
slightly curved, meaty, absolutely stringless and 
free from fibers. One of the best, if not the best, 
round podded bean in the market today for home 
garden, market gardeners, or canners. It is much 
superior to the Giant Stringless. The vine is 17 to 
18 inches high with 7 or 8 beans in a pod. 
We cannot recommend Landreth’s Stringless 
Green Pod too highly. In sections where we have 
grown this bean it has produced an average of five 
bushels to the acre more dry beans than any other. 
We can say justly it is the best, most disease re¬ 
sistant and most productive Bean in existence today. 
Longfellow or French Lead Pencil—56 Days 
Color of seed, like a faded Red Valentine, same 
shape. Foliage, larger and 2 inches taller than 
Black Valentine, more uniform habit. Height of 
vine, 16 to 17 inches. Pods longer and rounder 
than Black Valentine. Medium green, superior to 
Black Valentine. Pods about 5 inches long, stringy, 
containing 6 or 7 beans. Very productive. 
Landreths’ Stringless Green Pod 
Low’s Champion or Dwarf Red Cranberry—56 
Days 
Height of vine, 11 to 13 inches. Foliage, dark green. 
Very large, almost round, crimson seed. Pods 5 
inches long, flat, deep green, stringless, broad, 
almost straight, very tender, 5 or 6 beans to the pod. 
An excellent bean for canning. Also used as a Shell 
Bean. 
H lb. 1 lb. 5 lbs. 10 lbs. 
Giant Stringless . .15 
Landreths’ Extra Early 
Stringless R. Valentine . . . .20 
Landreths’ Stringless Green 
Pod .15 
Longfellow . 15 
Low’s Champion . . . .15 
.25 1.15 2.00 
.30 1.35 2.40 
.25 1.15 2.00 
.25 1.15 2.00 
.25 1.15 2.00 
