For Large Crops, Plant Pole Beans 
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Soup or Shell Beans 
Improved White Navy Bean. Also called Pea Bean. 
A good sort for either market or home use. It is 
smaller than the White Marrowfat, but is of fine 
flavor, and is the variety used in making the famous 
“Boston Baked Beans.” Very productive and is 
largely planted everywhere. Dry beans small and 
pure white. 
Red Kidney. A standard old variety that is very popu- 
lar. It is grown almost exclusively for the dried 
beans, which are long, oval, and purplish brown in 
color. The plant is dwarf. 
White Kidney. Excellent either as a shell Bean or used 
green. The beans are white and larger than either 
the Improved White Navy or White Marrowfat. 
Splendid for baking or soup. Dry beans pure white, 
kidney shape. 
White Marrowfat. A dwarf variety that is largely 
planted and used, both as a string and shell Bean. 
A profitable sort for the market gardener to grow, 
and a necessary one for the home gardener. The 
dried beans are lafge and white, oval shape. 
Pole Beans 
One pound will plant about 200 hills. 
Dutch Caseknife. A good variety for either snap or 
shell Beans. The long, flat, green pods are borne 
early in the season. The dried beans are large, flat, 
and pure white, which makes it an exceptionally good 
sort to grow for winter use. 
Golden Cluster Wax. An extra strong grower and very 
productive. The flat, stringless pods are large, 7 to 
8 inches long by % inch wide, and are borne in 
clusters. They are rich golden yellow, of excellent 
flavor, and remain fit for use a long time. Vines 
bear continuously. One of the best yellow-podded 
Pole Beans. Dry beans oval, pure white. 
Kentucky Wonder. 
Lazy Wife Pole Beans. 
Kentucky Wonder (Old Homestead). This extremely 
productive variety is entirely stringless. The silvery 
green pods, which are 8 to 10 inches long, hang in 
clusters the entire length of the plants. It is one of 
the earliest of the green-podded Pole Beans, and of 
exceptionally good quality. If the pods are gathered 
as they mature, the plants will continue to bear until 
the end of the season. Dry beans are long, almost 
kidney shape, grayish brown. 
Kentucky Wonder Wax. A yellow-podded form of the 
preceding, with all its good qualities, but which yields 
quicker from seeding than most of the other Pole 
Beans. The yellow pods are meaty, brittle, and of 
good flavor. This Bean is steadily growing in favor. 
Dry beans are dark brown and irregular in shape. 
Kentucky Wonder, White. An improvement on the 
old Kentucky Wonder in that the dry beans are white. 
It has all the good characteristics of its parent which 
is sufficient recommendation to all who know that 
splendid sort. 
Lazy Wife. The best late green-podded Pole Bean. 
It is an extremely heavy yielder of broad, thick, 
fleshy, dark green pods which are entirely stringless 
and average 6 inches in length. The dry beans, 
which are borne 6 to 8 in the pod, are excellent for 
winter use. Dry beans large, oval, pure white. 
Horticultural (Speckled Cranberry). Can be used both 
as a shell and snap Bean. The pods are of medium 
size, pale green streaked with bright red, tender and 
of excellent quality. Especially good for short sea¬ 
sons and cool locations. Dry beans large, oval, dark 
tan covered with red dots. 
White Creaseback. A good early green-podded sort. 
The pods are perfectly round and stringless, measur¬ 
ing 5 to 6 inches long, and grow in clusters. The 
white dried beans are fine for winter use. One of 
the best general purpose Beans. Dry beans pure 
white, almost kidney shape. 
Red Speckled Cut Short (Corn Hill). This exten¬ 
sively cultivated, green-podded climbing sort, with 
red-speckled, oval seed, is used largely in the South 
for planting among corn. It will give a good crop 
without the use of poles. The vines are medium 
sized, but vigorous, twining loosely, with dark col¬ 
ored leaves. The snap pods are short, 3 to 3 1 /? 
inches, straight, flat to oval, fleshy and of good 
quality. The pods as they mature become light 
yellow, tinged with red, the beans showing distinctly 
through the pod. Seed nearly oblong, cut off diag¬ 
onally at the ends, light grayish white, covered about 
the eye and at one end with reddish or purplish 
brown, and irregularly dusted over most of the sur¬ 
face with the same color. 
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