Jerome B. Rice Seed Co., Wholesale Seed Growers, Cambridge, N. Y. 
LARGE WHITE MARROW (100 days)—Large oval-shaped white beans, grown as 
a field crop for baking. 
LOW'S CHAMPION BUSH (55 days)—A very old variety of the Horticultural 
type, sometimes known as Red Cranberry. Pods deep green, about 5 inches 
long, very flat, extremely straight, stringless, tender and of fine quality. Beans 
deep red. Extensively used as a canning variety in the Eastern States. 
RED KIDNEY (95 days)—Quite like White Kidney, except the beans are deep 
red in color. 
RED VALENTINE, IMPROVED EARLY (52 days)—A very hardy, early and pro¬ 
ductive standard sort. Pods 4)4 inches long, round and crease-backed, medium 
green, slightly stringy and of good quality. 
RED VALENTINE, STRINGLESS (54 days)—A stringless selection of Early Red 
Valentine. 
REFUGEE STRINGLESS (65 days)—A desirable stringless selection from Refugee 
or 1000 to 1 , resembling that variety in form of pod, season of maturity and 
habit of growth, though not as hardy or quite as productive. Very popular 
with canners. 
REFUGEE OR 1000 TO I (70 days)—A very productive, hardy, vigorous late 
sort, much in favor with the canning trade. Pods 5 to 5*4 inches long, some¬ 
what slender, round and slightly curved; almost stringless; fine grained and 
good quality; color light green. 
STRINGLESS GREEN POD, BURPEE'S (53 days)—Early, hardy, vigorous and 
productive. Pods large, 5)4 inches long, thick, round and crease-backed, dark 
green in color; strictly stringless, tender and brittle; of good quality. Used 
as a cut bean by many canners. 
STRINGLESS GREEN POD, GIANT (54 days)—Somewhat similar to Burpee's 
Stringless, but pod is a little longer, 6)4 inches, straighter and more slender, 
more depressed between beans and slightly lighter in color; early, hardy and 
of highest quality. A desirable canners' variety. 
TENDERGREEN, HENDERSON'S (54 days)—One of the very best of the round, 
green-podded beans. Fleshy pods about 6 inches long, stringless, very pro¬ 
ductive and closely resembles an improved Full Measure. 
TENNESSEE GREEN POD—BROWN BUNCH (54 days)—A popular sort in the 
South where it is sometimes known as Dwarf Kentucky Wonder. One of the 
very earliest green-podded beans. Plant vigorous, hardy and productive; pods 
6 to 7 inches long, broad, very flat, irregular in shape, dark green in color, 
nearly stringless, and of exceptionally fine flavor. Beans chocolate-brown. 
POLE OR RUNNING BEANS 
BURGER'S GREEN POD OR WHITE KENTUCKY WONDER (64 days)—A very 
early, white-seeded variety of German origin. Pods 6 to 7 inches long, flattened 
and nearly straight; very tender, fleshy and stringless; of high quality; color 
medium green. Foliage distinctly dark green, much crumpled. 
GOLDEN CLUSTER WAX (70 days)—An excellent pole wax-podded sort; early, 
vigorous, hardy and productive. Pod 6 l /2 to 7 inches long, extremely straight, 
broad and flat; very fleshy, stringy though fine grained, attractive and good 
quality; color light waxy-yellow. Beans white, oval-shaped. 
HORTICULTURAL POLE OR CRANBERRY—October Bean (70 days)—An old, 
well-known, standard sort. Mid-season in maturity, hardy and productive. 
Pods 5 to 6 inches long, straight, fiat, stringless and of good quality; color 
dark green, splashed with bright red. 
IDEAL MARKET OR BLACK CREASE-BACK POLE (58 days)—Earliest and most 
prolific of green-podded pole beans, a full week earlier than Kentucky Won¬ 
der. Pods 5 inches long, round, slightly curved, stringless when young, and 
borne in clusters of 6 ; very tender, pulpy, excellent quality. Seeds black. 
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