

Stringless Green Pod (54 days): Pods 51% 
to 6 inches long. Nearly round, slightly 
curved. Medium green, stringless and 
fiberless. Seed coffee brown. 
Tender Green (54 days): Pods 6 to 7 
inches long, round, fleshy, stringless, dark 
green. Seed mottled buff and purple. 
Stringless Black Valentine (54 days): 
Pods 6 to 61% inches, slightly curved. 
Oval, dark green and stringless. Seed 
solid black. 
Dwarf Horticulture or Cranberry (54 
days): Pods 5 to 6 inches long. Thick, flat 
green at early stages, splashed with 
carmine at maturity. Seed oval, pinkish 
butt. Spotted and streaked with maroon. 
Broad Windsor (Fava Bean): Pods 5 to 6 
inches long. Green shell beans, large, 
flat, light green. Seed reddish brown 
with black eye. 
Canadian Wonder (68 days): Pods 7 to 
7% inches long, light green, flat, straight. 
Not stringless but tender. Seed large, 
maroon color. 
WAX POD BUSH. The best of the 
round-podded type is Pencil Pod. Its 
seeds are black. Brittle Wax has white 
seeds. Bountiful Wax is a very thrifty and 
productive plant with flat oval pods; its 
seeds are black. Golden Wax has white 
seeds with a little mottling, but is not 
quite of such good eating quality. 
SHELLING BEANS. The variety most 
generally used is Dwarf Horticultural. It 
is also known as Speckled Cranberry 
Beans, which indicates the sort of shell 
bean it produces. The pods are as good as 
snap beans if eaten young. 
GREEN POD POLE. Being a much 
larger plant, the pole bean can bear many 
more pods than the low bush. But more 
space per plant is required, and the pro- 
viding of poles or other support such as 
trellis means more work for the gardener. 
In general, therefore, the bush beans are 
much more popular. Yet that favorite, 
Blue Lake, well rewards the gardener 
for his pains by its clusters of long, 
straight green pods. These are to be 
picked as soon as they reach full size and 
not allowed to grow more mature as 
they then become somewhat fibrous. 
Oregon Giant is another very popular 
pole bean with its large, tender, light 
green splashed with red, pods. 
(Green Pod Pole) 
Packet, 10c; 1 pound, 25c; pound, 45c. 
(except as noted) 
Blue Lake (65 days): Pods 51% to 6 
inches long, straight, round, dark green 
and stringless. Seed white. 
Oregon Giant Green Pod (65 days): 
Pods large fleshy 10 to 12 inches. String- 
“a light greenish splashed with deep 
red. 
Packet, 10c; 1/4 pound, 30c; pound, 5 5c. 
Kentucky Wonder (65 days): Pods 81% to 
9 inches long, round, curved and silver 
green in color. Seed buff and brown. 
Tall Horticulture (70 days): Pods 71% to 
8 inches long, oval, straight and dark 
green when young. Seed buff splashed 
with red. 
WAX POD POLE. This type is little 
grown and the pods are not usually of » 
such good quality as the bush wax va- 
rieties. Kentucky Wonder Wax, the best 
known of the varieties, is brown-seeded; 
Golden Cluster is white-seeded and 
sometimes saved for dry beans after its 
pods pass the edible stage. 
LIMA BEANS are even more intolerant 
of cold and take longer to ripen. In sow- 
ing, the seed of the larger bush varieties 
are usually set a little farther apart— 
three to four inches—and probably two 
plantings will be sufficient. The seeds 
are to be set with the eye down and 
there should be enough soil moisture to 
induce germination. 
The bush variety Limas include Fordhook 
Bush, which is perhaps the best one; 
second, the Baby Lima, known in the 
South as a butter bean, of which Hen- 
derson’s Bush is the best known. Its 
beans are small, green when young, but 
at later stages both green and white 
beans occur. For a pole variety, the 
Oregon Pole Lima is best adapted to 
our Northwest climate. A vigorous 
grower, pods at their best when turning 
hg The seeds are white, plump and 
oval. 
