Our Seed Is Tested 
BEANS 
Beans should be planted after danger of frost and when the soil is fairly warm. Plant beans in rows 2% to 
3 ft. apart, 1 inch deep and 2 inches apart in the row. Snap beans will give a continuous supply if planted every 
two weeks up to July Ist or 10th. 
Late years the seed-corn maggot has been the cause of many poor stands of beans. This is a tiny maggot 
that lives in the soil and eats the first leaves as the bean sprouts with the result that the bean plant does not 
come up or is so damaged that it does not grow normally. Shallow planting in warm, moist soil insures a quick 
come-up and a minimum amount of damage. 
A tiny insect known as thrip sometimes feeds on the young bean leaves turning them brown. Thrip can easily 
Pe Cae by dusting with DDT (see page 36). Later you may have to dust with Rotenone for the Mexican 
ean beetle. 
GREEN BUSH SNAP BEANS 
Vitamins abcg 
Pkt. will plant 20 ft. row 
A 50 ft. row per person is usually sufficient for both table and canning 
1 Ib. will plant 150 ft. row; 60 Ibs. will plant | acre 
Our tastes are to a great extent governed by habit. Mother always liked wax beans better than green ones 
because when she was a girl on the farm, the yellow wax was the common snap bean or as it was known then— 
“string bean"’. Times and varieties have changed. The strings have disappeared and green beans have largely 
taken the place of the wax varieties. There is a very good reason for this; the best green varieties are more 
tender, thicker-fleshed, and bear heavier crops than their yellow cousins. 
The most popular variety in the home garden is Tendergreen. It is excellent for canning, freezing, and 
fresh on the table. Tendergreen is also being used more and more by the market grower, canners, and com- 
mercial freezers. Long Tendergreen has met with favor on account of its added length but is thought by 
some not to yield as well as Tendergreen. 
Asgrow Black Valentine, Bountiful, Streamliner, and Plentiful are primarily shipping varieties although they are 
at times used by the canners and market gardeners. Asgrow Black Valentine, Streamliner, and Plentiful are 
better quality than Bountiful. Asgrow Black Valentine, producing oval pods, will usually sell on either a round 
or flat-podded market. Bountiful is still very popular as a market bean, not on account of quality, but because 
it holds up better in shipment than most other varieties. Plentiful is a better quality bean and is replacing 
Bountiful in some sections. Streamliner with its 10 inch pods is very appealing to the eye but we have found 
that many of the pods are set so near the ground that they are apt to be spattered with dirt in wet weather. 
*20 TENDERGREEN: 56 days. 65 seeds per oz. 25 PLENTIFUL: 53 days. 70 seeds per oz. Plants 
Plants large and productive. Pods 6 inches long, large, sturdy. Pods 7 inches long, flat, a little darker 
round, fleshy, dark green, stringless, and of fine than Bountiful, stringless and far better quality. 
quality. Seed mottled buff and purple. Pkt. 15 Seed black. Pkt. 15 cts.; % lb. 30 cts.; lb. 45 cts.; 
cts.; % lb. 30 cts.; lb. 45 cts.; 2 Ibs. 85 cts.; 5 Ibs. 2 Ibs. 85 cts.; 5 Ibs. $1.60; 15 Ibs. $4.05; 100 lbs. 
$1.75; 15 Ibs. $4.20; 100 lbs. $25.00. $24.00. 
21 LONG TENDERGREEN: 56 days. 65 seeds per 
oz. Pods 7 inches long, round, fleshy, stringless. 
As fine quality as Tendergreen. Seed mottled buff 
and purple. Pkt. 15 cts.; % lb. 30 cts.; lb. 50 cts.; 
2 Ibs. 95 cts.; 5 lbs. $1.80; 15 lbs. $4.65; 100 Ibs. 
$27.00. 
22 ASGROW BLACK VALENTINE: 53 days. 81 
seeds per oz. Plants large, erect, prolific. Pods 
634 inches long, oval, nearly straight, dark green, 
stringless, good quality. Seed oval, solid black. 
Pkt. 15 cts:; 4% Ib. 30 cts.; Ib. 45 cts.; 2 Ibs. 85 
cts.; 5 lbs. $1.60; 15 Ibs. $4.05; 100 lbs. $24.00. ° 
23 BOUNTIFUL: 51 days. 65 seeds per oz. Plants 
medium size; pods 6% inches long, broad, flat, light 
green color, slightly fibrous, only fair quality. Seed 
straw color. Pkt. 15 cts.; % lb. 30 cts.; Ib. 45 
cts.;.2 lbs. 85 cts.; 5 Ibs. $1.65; 15 lbs. $3.90; 100 
lbs. $23.00. 
24 STREAMLINER: 50 days. 65 seeds per oz. 
Plants upright, sturdy; pods 7 to 8 inches long, slim, 
flat, light green, stringless but only fair quality. 
Seed white. Pkt. 15 cts.; % lb. 30 cts.; lb. 50 
cts.; 2 lbs. 95 cts.; 5 Ibs. $1.85; 15 Ibs. $4.80; 100 
Ibs. $28.00. 

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: . ; “Jim”? Yoemans is rightly proud of this crop of Tendergreen beans. 
“It takes Robson Seed Quality to put the garden in gardening.” Our conditions this past year were ideal for the production of seed 
May 4, 1946 Allen L. Bates, beans and we are fortunate to have a good supply of all varieties 
R. 1, Pine City, N. Y. of high quality seed. 
