VARIETAL DESCRIPTIONS OF VEGETABLES 4 KEYSTONE SEEDS 
| BEANS—Continued Prin- Tele- Season. 
cipal graph Days to 
Uses Code Picking 
STRIPED CREASEBACK or Nancy Davis or Scotia H BLOOM 72 
Excellent variety for planting with corn. Used for snap beans. Unusually productive. 
VINE —4!/, to 5 feet tall, very good climber, heavy stem and foliage, dark green. 
PODS —6 to 61/2 inches long, medium green, round, fleshy, stringy, brittle, good quality. 
SEED —Color, mottled buff field with black stripes, medium small plump oval. 
TENNESSEE WONDER (Egg Harbor) H BLOOD 72 
Remarkable variety for its fine-shaped and large-sized pods. 
VINE —4 to 41/2 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 HC BLOWY 65 
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 —5!/, to 6 inches long, uniform, medium green, fleshy, stringless when young, 
round, brittle, good quality. 
SEED —Color, entirely white, small oval, makes a qood dry shelled bean. 
“WHITE KENTUCKY U. S. No. 4 or White Pole No. 191 HM BLASE 64 
Developed by United States Dept. of Agric., a market garden variety highly popular 
in sections of California, shows resistance to bean rust and seems adapted to freezing 
preservation. 
VINE —6 feet tall, vigorous, productive, with broad, dark foliage. 
PODS —8 to 9 inches long, '/> inch wide, oval, tender and stringless at market stage. 
SEED —Color, entirely white. 
YARDLONG (Asparagus Bean) Vigna sinensis sesquipedalis HC 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!/, to 6!/> feet tall, vigorous, rank, dark green. 
PODS —18 to 28 inches long, !/4-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-POD VARIETIES 
Phaseolus vulgaris 
GOLDEN CLUSTER WAX HM 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!/ 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. 
VY KENTUCKY WONDER WAX HM 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!/> 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. 
=o 
