GREEN POD BUSH BEANS 
BLACK VALENTINE 
SEASON: 
55 days to picking. 
BUSH: 
Open growth, runnerless, erect. 
FLOWERS: 
Rose-purple. 
PODS: 
Oval, somewhat tough and stringy, slightly curved, very dark- 
green. 
SEED: 
Small, jet black, oblong. 
ADAPTABILITY: 
Used as a market bean for fall and early spring planting in the 
outhern States. A hardy bean and the pods are firm and stand 
long shipment from point of production. 
BLACK VALENTINE, STRINGLESS 
SEASON: 
55 days to picking. 
BUSH: 
Open, spreading, dark green foliage. 
FLOWERS: 
Rose purple. 
PODS: 
Semi-round, slightly constructed between seeds, dark green 
strmgless. 
SEED: 
Small, jet black. 
ADAPTABILITY: 
An improvement on Black Valentine as the pods are stringless* 
Grown in the south for market. 
