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Beans, Contender 
WAX POD BUSH BEANS 
e BLACK VALENTINE (Stringless) 
(Days to Maturity, 55) 
Uses: Primarily market garden. Widely used for 
late planting in home gardens. 
Bush: Open, spreading, dark green foliage. 
Pods: Oval, dark green, stringless. 
Seed: Small, jet black. 
Beans, Valentine 
e CHEROKEE WAX 
(Days to Maturity, 50) 
Uses: Canning and market gardens. 
Bush: Large, erect, vigorous and prolific. 
Pods: Oval, nearly straight,golden wax, string- 
ess at all stages, 6!/> inches long. 
Seed: Oblong, jet-black. Available 1950 season. 
Richmond, Virginia 
Beans, Cherokee Wax 
POLE BEANS 
CULTURE: Plant later than bush beans. Set 8- to 
9-foot poles firmly in the ground 3 feet apart with 
rows to 4 teet apart. Plant 5 to 8 beans around 
each pole; later thin to 4 vines. Cover seed |'/5 to 
2 inches deep. One pound of seed will plant 75 
to 100 hills; 30 pounds per acre. 
e MISSOURI WONDER 
(Nancy Davis) 
(Days to Maturity, 66) 
Uses: Usually planted in corn for green shelled 
beans. Can be used as snap beans when young. 
Vine: Large vigorous climber, medium to dark 
green, very productive. 
Pods: Medium green, round, curved, stringy, 6 
to 7 inches long. 
Seed: Pinkish gray mottled background with ir- 
regular drab striping; large oblong. 
e STRIPED CREASEBACK 
(Nancy Davis; Scotia) 
(Days to Maturity, 72) 
Uses: Good cornfield bean. Used for snaps. 
Vine: 4!/5 to 5 feet tall, good climber, dark green. 
Pods: 6 to 6!/y inches long, medium green, round, 
fleshy, stringy, brittle. 
Seed: Mottled buff with black stripes. 
e LONDON HORTICULTURAL 
(Speckled Cranberry; Wren's Egg) 
(Days to Maturity, 72) 
Uses: Snap or green shell bean. Home and mar- 
ket garden. Good dry shell bean. 
Vine: 4 to 4!/p feet tall, vigorous, dark green 
foliage. 
Pods: 6 to 6!/ inches long, dark green turning 
lighter with splashes of red in green shell stage, 
stringless, thick, flat, nearly straight, fleshy. 
Seed: Buff streaked with red oval. 
