VARIETAL DESCRIPTIONS OF VEGETABLES 
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RED VALENTINE BRAVE 
A very old standard variety that has held popular favor for home garden and market use. 
It is quite hardy and has good keeping qualities. 
VINE —12 to 14 inches tall, erect, compact, medium to light green, and good producer. 
PODS — A }/2 to 5 inches long, round, rather slender, stringy, tender, and fleshy. 
SEED —Color, mostly red with occasional blotches of buff. 
RED VALENTINE STRINGLESS BRANT 
A new variety with all the better qualities of the old stringy Red Valentine combined 
with the long-desired stringless pod. This bean is valuable for market garden or ship¬ 
ping; has the qualities to replace the old type almost entirely. 
VINE —Similar to the old type Red Valentine. 
PODS —4^ to 5 inches, round, stringless, and fiberless, highly productive. 
SEED —Color, identical with old type. 
ROGERS STRINGLESS REFUGEE BANDY 
Variety used in the canning field, especially for packing small whole green beans. 
VINE —14 to 18 inches tall, dark green, vigorous, and very productive. 
PODS —43^ to 5 Yi inches long, round, straight, light green, stringless, tender, and fleshy. 
SEED —Color, violet purple on buff field. 
TENDERGREEN BRACT 
An excellent all-purpose bean with exceptionally fine qualities. It is a variety that appeals 
to all who see it. 
VINE —15 to 17 inches tall, sturdy, prolific, medium glossy green, and heavy producer. 
PODS —43^ to 63^2 inches long, round, absolutely stringless and fiberless, tender, brittle, 
and very fleshy. 
SEED —Color, from brown to bluish purple on fawn field. 
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Improved Burpee Stringless Green Pod 
TENNESSEE GREEN POD BRAGI 48 
Often called Brown Bunch and Dwarf Kentucky Wonder. Very popular in the South, 
one reason being its extreme earliness. 
VINE —10 to 12 inches tall, spreading, fair producer, very dark green, sturdy plant with 
abundance of white bloom. 
PODS —6 to 7 inches in length, exceptionally broad and plump, stringy and fibrous, 
medium dark green. 
SEED —Color, brown with greenish cast and obscure brown eye-ring. 
DWARF WAX-PODDED VARIETIES 
Phaseolus vulgaris 
BLACK WAX PENCIL POD BEACH 51 
Outstanding wax pod in home and market gardens and for shipping, as is shown by its 
wide use and increasing demand. Highly dependable and unsurpassed in quality. 
VINE —14 to 16 inches tall, erect, stocky, vigorous, hardy, dull dark green, and 
produces over a long period. 
PODS —53^ to 63/£ inches long, clear yellow color, round, absolutely stringless and 
fiberless, tender, brittle, fleshy, and fine textured. 
SEED —Color, entirely shiny jet black. 
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