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ASPARAGUS 
Asparagus is not a difficult crop. Indeed, 
it will grow after a fashion almost any- 
where, if it does not have to stand in a 
water-logged or sour spot, but it cannot 
be cropped quickly, and it requires lots 
of room. It is for the permanent garden 
and there, with reasonable care, it will 
endure for 20 years, providing an attrac- 
tive green background through the sum- 
mer months after the cutting season is 
over. 
This crop succeeds best in rich sandy 
loam, with good underdrainage. Avoid 
planting near trees, or tall shrubs, which 
cause excessive shade and take too much 
fertility from the soil. Set plants at least 
20 inches apart, and place them in a 
permanent location. Packet, 10c. 
BEANS 
No American garden, however small, is 
complete without a row of beans. They 
will grow almost anywhere, provided they 
have warmth with a reasonable amount 
of moisture and plant food. Under such 
conditions, and with proper protection 
from pests, they produce abundantly, and 
being legumes tend to leave more nitrogen 
in the soil. 
In habit of growth, there are two types: 
bush, and climbing or pole beans. Many 
varieties or both are available, some with 
green pods, a lesser number with wax 
pods, and of both, these, the new and 
better varieties are stringless. Others are 
not grown for their pods, but for shelled 
beans, eaten green when immature or 
after full growth. 
GREEN POD BUSH. This is by far the 
more popular type and the choice of va- 
rieties is correspondingly great. A prefer- 
ence may be felt as to the shape and shade 
of the pods, and of those that are round in 
section. Stringless Green Pod may be 
ranked first-——a hardy and productive 
variety with light green, stringless pods. 
Next would come Tender Green. 
Packet, 10c; 2 pound, 25c; pound, 45c. 
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Stringless Green Pod (54 days) : Pods 514 
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 car- 
mine 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. Golden Wax has white seeds with 
a little mottling, but is not quite of such 
good eating quality. 
Packet, 10c; 2 pound, 30c; pound, 55c. 
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. 
VEGETABLE GARDENS 
PAY DIVIDENDS 
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 providing 
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 al- 
lowed 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; 2 pound, 25c; pound, 45c. 
(except as noted) 
Blue Lake (65 days): Pods 54% 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. Stringless, 
light green splashed with deep red. 
Packet, 10c; 2 pound, 30c; pound, 55c. 
Kentucky Wonder (65 days): Pods 8 
to 9 inches long, round, curved and silver 
green in color. Seed buff and brown. 
Tall Horticulture (70 days) : Pods 72 to 
8 inches long, oval, straight and dark 
green when young. Seed buff splashed 
with red. 
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