VARIETAL DESCRIPTIONS OF VEGETABLES ¢ KEYSTONE SEEDS 
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Uses Code Days 
HENDERSON BUSH (Picture on Next Page) HMCF BICEP 65 . 
Most widely used of the baby lima beans for home and market gardens, a 
principal canner and freezer variety because of its productiveness, high qual- 
ity, hardiness, resistance to disease. Our improved strain is very valuable for 
its earliness and uniformity in development of green shelled beans. 
VINE —16 inches tall, vigorous, productive, erect, very uniform growth. 
PODS—3 to 3% inches long, dark green, broad-flat, slightly curved, 3 to 4 
seeds per pod. 
SEED —Color, entirely creamy white, small flat. A fine dry shell bean, 1,200 
per pound. 
JACKSON WONDER or Calico H BIDET 68 
A popular bean in the South. Noted for its extreme hardiness and productivity 
under all conditions. 
VINE —16 to 20 inches tall, spreading, glossy dark green, highly productive. 
PODS—3 to 3% inches long, dark green, broad-flat, somewhat curved, 3 to 4 
seeds per pod. 
SEED —Color, buff field splashed with purplish black, 1,050 per pound. 
PEERLESS (U..S. 243) CF BORSK 70 
Developed by Drs. Roy Magruder and R. E. Wester, U. S. D. A. This is a 
processing lima bean of the quality of Fordhook Bush, with beans about half 
the size of Fordhook Bush, a few days earlier, and more uniform in maturity 
of pods. 
VINE —16 to 20 inches tall, erect, medium large, vigorous, dull dark green 
leaflets of medium size, prolific, with pods borne mostly close to the 
ground. | 
PODS—3 to 3% inches long, broad-plump, slightly curved, 2 to 4 beans per | 
pod. | 
BEANS—Medium green when young, turning light green to white when 
mature. Seed color, white, tinged with green, medium size and thick- 
ness, 600 seeds per pound. 
SPECKLED BUTTERPEA H BUTON 75 
Similar to Dixie Butterpea White except for seed color and even greater hardi- 
ness and productivity under hot dry conditions. Gaining popularity rapidly in 
the South. | 
VINE —18 inches tall, vigorous, bushy, medium dark green, prolific. | 
PODS—3 inches long, % inch wide, thick, slightly curved, dark green. 
SEED —Small, thick, almost round, light bright red speckled with dark car- 
mine, 1,808 per pound. | 
THOROGREEN, IMPROVED EARLY CF BRETT 66 
or Green Seeded Henderson 
An improved strain of the original Green Seeded Lima, which has now been 
selected to a fine uniform stock. Thorogreen, Clark’s Bush, and Cangreen 
are of similar types. Our Improved Early Thorogreen is an especially valuable 
variety for canners and freezers because of its productivity and quality, and 
the green cotyledon eliminates the white seeds which appear from overmature 
pods in regular Henderson at the processing stage. 
VINE —16 inches tall, vigorous, productive, similar to Henderson. 
PODS—3 inches long, 3 to 4 seeds per pod, similar to Henderson. 
SEED —Has green cotyledon, giving dry seed a green color, 1,100 per pound. 
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