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BOTZUM BROS SEED CO. 
WARDWELL 1 S KIDNEY WAX 
(5£ to 6" Length of Pod, 1/2" Width of Pod, 
53 Days from Planting to Picking) 
Desirable for home and market garden use. Plants medium, fairly erect, 
not hardy, moderately productive. Pods flat, deep golden yellow, 
brittle, stringless, of fine texture, very attractive but quite suscept¬ 
ible to disease. Seeds 60 per oz*, white with mottling of purple and 
mai,ze yellow about eye and ends. 
WEBBER WAX OR CRACKER JACK 
(6 to 6^" Length of Pod, 1/2" Width of Pod, 
49 Days from Planting to Picking) 
Popular as an early market garden sort. Plant medium, erect, compact, 
quite productive. Pods medium broad, thick-flat, curved, bright yellow, 
brittle, stringless when young, little fiber, of fair quality. Seeds 
long-oval, 75 per oz., buff-yellow. 
POLE GREEN PODDED VARIETIES 
KENTUCKY WONDER OR OLD HOMESTEAD 
(7£ to 8£" Length of Pod, 1/2" Width of Pod, 
65 Days from Planting to Picking) 
Also called Texas Prolific. The best known and most popular pole bean. 
Good for home and market garden, and for canning. Strong climber, hard# 
very prolific over long season. Pods practically round, curved, with 
undulating surface, meaty, of good quality; slightly stringy, fiberless, 
very brittle* Seeds 80 per oz., buff brown. 
LAZY WIFE 
(5i to 6i" Length of Pod, 5/8" Width of Pod, 
72 Days from Planting to Picking) 
Medium late, strongly productive. Good for the home garden as a snap or 
green shell bean; also for dry shell use. Pods thick, fleshy, string - 
less, little fiber, glossy green, fine texture and quality. Seeds 65 per 
oz., roundish, solid white* 
MCCASLAN POLE 
65 Days. Excellent for home and market garden for snaps and for dry 
shell use. Good climber. Pods 8 inches long; medium green, slightly 
flattened, fleshy, of good quality. Seeds white. Similar to Kentucky 
Wonder aside from color of' seed; similar to St. Louis Perfection White, 
but often a little earlier. 
LONDON HORTICULTURAL OR CRANBERRY 
(6 to 6i" Length of Pod, 11/16" Width of Pod, 
70 Days from Planting to Picking) 
Widely known and used for home and market garden as a snap and green 
shell bean* Hardy, vigorous growing, good climber. Pods flat-oval, 
slightly curved, constricted, stringless, little fiber, very fleshy and 
of good quality. Seeds 50 per oz., large, oval; color buff splashed 
with dark red* 
MAMMOTH HORTICULTURAL, KING OR WORCESTER 
(6£ to 7" Length of Pod, 3/4" Width of Pod, 
73 Days from Planting to Picking) 
The largest podded and largest seeded of the Horticultural beans* Pods 
very attractive in size and in color. Seeds like London Horticultural 
in color, but larger* Our.stock is the true strain. 
