Plant them: they'll grow 
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Bountiful: 49 days. Popular early market variety 
on northern and eastern markets. Plant medium 
large, thrifty, with light green, flat-oval, string¬ 
less pods, 6 V'i'-T' long. 
Dwarf Horticultural: Used both for snap beans 
(54 days) and green shelled beans (62 days). 
Full Measure: 53 days. Under favorable condi¬ 
tions a most excellent bean with plentiful string¬ 
less, tender, round pods. 
Giant Stringless Green Pod: 53 days. Asgrow 
originated. Like Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod 
but with larger, longer and straighter pods, en¬ 
tirely stringless and brittle, medium green in 
color. Deservedly popular. 
Red Valentine: 52 days. Still used in the South. 
Pods round, curved and stringy. 
Stringless Red Valentine: 54 days. Pods slightly 
shorter and more curved than Red Valentine. 
Tendergreen: Similar to Asgrow Stringless Green 
Pod but not so concentrated in season or so 
abundant in yield. 
Tennessee Green Pod: 50 days. A Southern fa¬ 
vorite of fine flavor though not stringless. Large 
pods, broad, long and flat. 
A fine crop of Asgroiv Stringless Green Pod beans grown in the middle west 
Wax Pods 
Davis Stringless Wax: 52 days. Medium sized 
plants with thick-flat, light yellow pods. Seeds 
are white. 
Improved Golden Wax: 51 days. Popular in 
home gardens because of its rich flavor and re¬ 
sistance to disease. Straight, thick-flat, string¬ 
less, creamy yellow pods. 
* Pencil Pod: 55 days. Asgrow originated. Gen¬ 
erally regarded as the finest wax bean whether 
for shipping, local market or the home garden. 
Pods are a beautiful golden yellow, 6"-7" long, 
round and crease-backed, fleshy, brittle, string¬ 
less, fiberless, tender and sweet; grown abun¬ 
dantly on stocky, vigorous plants. Seeds are 
black. An early variety though in every way of 
the highest quality and productive over a lengthy 
period. 
Round Pod Kidney Wax (Brittle Wax): 58 days. 
Asgrow originated. Very similar to Pencil Pod 
but not quite so large. Handsome pods of the 
finest quality. 
*Sure Crop (Bountiful Wax): 53 days. Asgrow 
originated. Thick-flat, golden yellow pods, 6"-7" 
long; stringless and brittle; meaty and well- 
flavored ; attractive both in taste and appearance. 
The plants are strong, probably the hardiest of 
all wax pod beans, fighting both adverse growing 
conditions and disease. A heavy cropper with a 
long picking season. Seeds are black. Most 
popular with market gardeners and shippers for 
its fine quality and texture both in the early and 
later markets. 
