on 
Rival 50 days 
Plant—17 to 21 inches tall, upright to 
spreading with large, smooth, medium 
dark green leaves. 
Pods—6'2 inches long x % inch wide, 
round, light green, fairly straight, very 
slender when young, smooth, meaty 
and stringless. They become somewhat 
crease-back with development. 
Seed—oblong, mottled purple-brown. 
Developed by Dr. Wm. Zaumeyer of the 
U. S. Dept. of Agric. A cross between 
U. S. Refugee No. 5 and Full Measure. 
Resistant to common bean mosaic. 
Excellent for canning and freezing. 
The color, flavor and texture are good. 
_ Streamliner (Granada or White 
Seeded Bountiful) 50 days 
Plant—17 to 21 inches tall, upright, with 
medium dark green leaves. 
Pods—7 inches long x % inch wide, oval, 
straight, dark green, stringless when 
young, becoming: fibrous with age. 
Seed—kidney shaped, white. 
A prolific long podded variety, good for 
home and market growing. Also, excel- 
lent for canning French style. 
_ Stringless Black Valentine 52 days 
Plant—17 to 20 inches tall, upright, with 
medium dark green foliage; prolific 
yielder. 
_ Pods—7 inches long x % inch wide, oval, 
i medium green, straight, stringless and 
| of excellent quality. 
Seed—-small, oval and black. 
An excellent shipping bean and home 
garden variety. Recommended for freez- 
ing. Has unusually attractive green 
pods. 
_ Stringless Green Pod 
(Landreth’s Strain) 52 days 
_ Plant—17 to 21 inches tall, upright with 
| medium sized dark green leaves. 
_ Pods—6 inches long x *% inch wide, round, 
. medium green, slightly curved, string- 
less and of excellent quality. 
Seed—dark brown. 
A productive, widely adapted home garden 
| variety for use fresh, for canning or for 
! freezing. More vigorous and productive 
/ than the Burpee strain. Tolerant to 
heat. 
| Stringless Red Valentine 54 days 
Plant—16 to 19 inches tall, erect and 
fairly compact, with light to medium 
green foliage. 
Pods—4% inches long x % inch wide, 
thick-oval, curved and stringless. 
Seed—buff splotched with red. 
Home garden variety used mainly in the 
South. 
_Tendergreen 54 days 
| Plant—18 to 20 inches tall, upright with 
large dark green leaves. 
_ Pods—6 inches long x % inch wide, round, 
| medium green, fleshy, stringless, and of 
excellent quality, 
Seed—dull black mottled with light brown. 
A heavy bearing variety of good quality 
where adapted. One of the best cut 
beans for canning and freezing. The 
most important home garden and ship- 
ping variety today. (It does not stand 
extremes of heat as well as some other 
varieties. ) 
Tennessee Green Pod 52 days 
Plant—15 inches tall, upright, with 
medium sized dark green leaves. 
Pods—5 inches long x % inch wide, flat, 
dark green, straight to curved and 
stringy. 
Seed—broad, flat and brown. 
A heavy bearing variety of good quality. 
Popular in the South because of earli- 
ness and flavor. 
Topcrop (U. S.No. 1) 48 days 
Plant—18 to 21 inches tall, upright, vig- 
orous, slightly spreading, with light 
green foliage. 
Pods—612 inches long x % inch wide, 
round and slightly creaseback, light 
green, very slender and straight when 
young. Pods slightly more curved than 
those of Rival and borne high on plant. 
Seed—oblong and purplish mottled. 
A new introduction by Dr. Wm. Zaumeyer 
O1thesU so. Dept. of Agric, -Ittis a 
selection from a cross between Refugee 
U. S. No. 5 and Full Measure. Resist- 
ant to common bean mosaic. Tests 
indicate high merit for both canning 
and freezing. Very productive and 
somewhat earlier than Rival. 
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Tendergreen 
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