VARIETAL DESCRIPTIONS OF VEGETABLES Ad KEYSTONE SEEDS 
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BURPEE’S STRINGLESS, IMPROVED (Picture on Page 6) HMC BADGE 50 
or Landreth Stringless or Stringless Greenpod 
Old standard variety, widely known in all home and market gardens and can- 
ning districts. 
VINE —16 to 17 inches tall, dark green, very hardy, vigorous and productive. 
PODS—5¥ to 6 inches long, medium dark green, slightly curved, cross section 
heart-shaped (about as wide as deep), stringless, fiberless, and of 
excellent quality and flavor. 
SEED —Color, coffee brown with black eye-ring, 1,180 per pound. 
COMMODORE IMPROVED HMCF BAOON 58 
We developed this bush bean 
from regular Commodore. It 
has a delicious flavor and is 
well adapted for home gar- 
dens, market, canning and 
freezing. An improvement in 
uniformity, texture, pod 
length, and seed production. 
All America Selection H. M. 
1945, 
VINE —15 to 17 inches tall, 
medium dark green, 
rather open but up- 
right growth. 
PODS—7% to 81% inches long, 
round, stringless, of 
finest flavor and 
quality, and very 
dark green in color. 
Pod appearance re- 
sembles Kentucky 
Wonder. 
SEED —Color, reddish purple, 
long, round, 1,184 per 
pound. 
CONTENDER MS BITOE 50 
DA Southern Vegetable Breeding Laboratory by the late Dr. 
B ~ "Freda. Sins Eatied it “Buff Valentine”. Resistant to common bean 
mosaic and powdery mildew, it is widely adapted and a good yielder. A good 
bean for market. 
VINE —Moderately vigorous, 12 to 18 inches tall, but on light soils too short 
to keep pods from touching soil. 
==Thi 1, nearly round, 7 inches long, medium green, _stringless, 
ee eee eat ee Variable color after processing objectionable 
for commercial quick freezing. 
SEED —Buff with brown mottling, long round-oval, 1,100 per pound. 
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