VARIETAL DESCRIPTIONS OF VEGETABLES 
KEYSTONE SEEDS 
BEANS—Continued Tele- Season. 
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Code Picking 
STRIPED CREASEBACK or Nancy Davis or Scotia BLOOM 72 
Excellent variety for planting with corn. Used for snap beans. Unusually productive. 
VINE —4 1/2 to 5 feet tall, very good climber, heavy stem and foliage, dark green. 
PODS —6 to 6 I /2 inches long, medium green, round, fleshy, stringy, brittle, good quality. 
SEED —Color, mottled buff field with black stripes, medium small plump oval. 
TENNESSEE WONDER or Egg Harbor or Brown Sickle BLOOD 72 
Remarkable variety for its fine-shaped and large-sized pods. 
VINE —4 to 4 I /2 feet tall. Good climber, purplish color tendencies on stems and pods. 
PODS —7 to 8 inches long, light green, round, straight, almost stringless, fiberless. 
SEED —Color, mottled mouse and buff field with black stripes. Black eye-ring. 
WHITE CREASEBACK or White Cornfield or Blue Lake BLOWY 68 
An old bean commonly grown, particularly in the South, for home gardening. Our 
stock is the Blue Lake strain known to canners for its fine quality and flavor when packed 
in young stage. Has merit for freezing preservation. 
VINE —4 to 5 feet tall, good climber, hardy, productive, dark green, long bearer. 
PODS — 51/2 inches long, uniform, medium green, fleshy, stringless when young, round, 
brittle, good quality. 
SEED —Color, entirely white, small oval, makes a good dry shelled bean. 
YARDLONG (Asparagus Bean) Vigna sineusis sesquipedalis BOOST 70 
A bean used in the home garden and canning as "Asparagus Beans." Has pods of 
unbelievable length. Entire plant somewhat similar to the cowpea. 
VINE — 5|/2 to 6^2 feet tall, vigorous, rank, dark green. 
PODS —18 to 28 inches long, i/^-inch in diameter, light green, nearly round, fleshy, 
good quality when young. 
SEED —Color, entirely reddish brown; very small, half the size of Michigan Navy 
Bean. 
POLE WAX-PODDED VARIETIES 
Phaseolus vulgaris 
GOLDEN CLUSTER WAX BLAST 74 
Particularly desirable as an early home garden and market sort. May be used either as 
snap, green shell, or dry beans. 
VINE —4 1/2 to 5 feet tall, good climber, heavy foliage, vigorous, hardy, long season 
producer, light green. 
PODS —6 to 7 inches long, waxy yellow, flat, broad, excellent quality, stringless, 
fiberless, tender, and brittle. 
SEED —Color, entirely a veined, dull white. 
KENTUCKY WONDER WAX BLEND 67 
Unsurpassed within the wax-podded pole variety field. A very heavy producer of attrac¬ 
tive, high quality pods. Also good for green shell beans. 
VINE •—4 to 5 feet tall, good climber, very productive, dark green. 
PODS —7 to 7 I /2 inches long, light golden yellow, thick-flat to oval, quality good, almost 
stringless, brittle, tender, and fleshy. 
SEED —Inclined to wrinkle, color entirely chocolate brown, shape flat oval. 
DWARF LIMA BEANS 
Phaseolus limensis 
BABY FORDHOOK BIABY 70 
Developed by Dr. Roy Magruder of U.S.D.A. by crossing Fordhook with Henderson. 
Showing fine possibilities as a canner and has merit for freezing preservation. 
VINE —14 to 16 inches tall, similar to Henderson Bush except little shorter and more 
branched in appearance; very prolific. 
PODS — 2^/4 inches long, slightly curved, tightly packed with 3 to 4 small thick beans 
of green color. 
SEED —Small, light cream with greenish tint; thick, slightly dimpled. 
BABY POTATO BIONE 72 
Originated by Prof. W. A. Huelson of the University of Illinois and an All-American 
Winner in 1939. It is well adapted for canners and freezing preservation and is of sweet 
flavor on the order of Fordhook. Also fine for the home and market garden. 
VINE —16 to 18 inches tall, similar to Henderson; very hardy and prolific. 
PODS 2% inches long, slightly curved, dark green, 3 to 4 thick beans per pod of 
bright green color. 
SEED —Shorter and thicker than Henderson's. 
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