Yellow or Wax-Podded Bush Beans 
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Improved Golden Wax (Top Notch) — The Top . 
Notch strain is an improvement over the old Golden 
Wax variety, and very popular with home gardeners 
and home canners. Plant is about 15 inches tall, 
erect, fairly productive. Pods are about 5 inches 
long, flattened oval, straight, stringless and brittle. | 
Quality and flavor are good. Seed is white with | 
brown eye. 52 days. | 
Pencil Pod Black Wax — Excellent shipping type of | 
wax pod bean. Plants are about 15 inches tall, dark | 
green, erect, fairly productive. Pods are about 6 
inches long, slim and round like a pencil, fleshy, © 
crisp, brittle, and stringless, bright yellow, attractive | 
and uniform. Seed is black, oblong. 54 days. | 
Sure Crop Black Wax — Bountiful-type wax pod : 
which is used for shipping in some sections. Plants | 
are 16 inches tall, medium green, fairly productive. 
Pods are flat and thick, golden, stringless, and of 
good quality, measure 6% inches by % inch. Seed 
is oval, black. 52 days. 
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Round Pod Kidney Wax (Brittle Wax) — Fine can- | 
ning variety of wax beans. Plants are about 16 ! 
inches tall, erect and spreading. Pods are 5% to 6 
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inches long, round, slightly curved, brittle, crisp, 
meaty, stringless. Seed is white with brown eye. | 
52 days. | 
POLE BEANS 
CULTURE: Pole beans need a warmer, richer soil | 
than the bush varieties, and a longer growing sea- | 
son. They should be set out about 3 feet apart each | 
way, planting 3 or 4 beans to a hill and | 
to 2 plants to each pole after vines are started up| 
their supports. The cornfield types may be planted | 
along the rows of corn, and will climb up the corn: 
stalks. 
CORNFIELD TYPES: 
Genuine Cornfield — A distinct variety from Striped | 
Creaseback, later maturing, much more productive, | 
and longer podded. Vines grow up to 6 feet tall 
and climb well, keep blooming and bearing over a | 
long period. Pods are about 7 inches long, broad | 
and oval, thick, meaty, tender, excellent quality © 
and flavor when picked at right stage. Seed oval, 
tan with brown striping. 80 days. } 
Missouri White Cornfield — High quality market | 
garden and home garden pole bean. Vines are } 
about 4% feet long, climb well, keep bearing over 
a long season, dark green and hardy. Pods are very 
attractive, silver-green, up to 7 inches long, thick | 
oval, fleshy and firm, crisp, well-flavored. Seed) 
white, oval. 65 days. i 
Missouri Wonder — Popular for green shell use, but) 
pod quality is only fair. Vines are about 6 feet long, 
climb well, and are quite productive. Pods are 
about 5% inches long, thick oval, stringy and, 
fibrous, medium green. Seed is large, plump oval, 
cinnamon gray splashed with brown. 65 days. | 
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