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BEANS — Bush Green Podded Varieties — Continued 
TOPCROP — ALL AMERICA, 1950 52 Days 
Plant medium large with leaf similar to refugee 15-16 inches tall bush habit. 
Pods medium light green, 5%4 to 6 inches long, round, meaty, crisp and 
slightly curved. Strictly stringless and fiberless up to advanced stages. 
Seed mottled brown and white. Resistant to greasy pod and common bean 
mosaic. 
BLACK VALENTINE, STRINGLESS 5 50 Days 
Plant large, erect, prolific. Pods long, practically straight, oval of good 
color and texture and is completely stringless. Seed oval, black. Popular 
with shippers and market gardeners. 
RED VALENTINE, STRINGLESS 54 Days 
Plant medium size, erect, very productive. Pods 4 to 4% inches long, me- 
dium green, round, curved, slim’ with crease in back; stringless; very fleshy, 
crisp and tender. Seed purplish red, splashed with pale buff. 
VERMONT CRANBERRY 60 Days 
Pods 4 to 5% inches long, yellow green splashed with scarlet. 
WADE — ALL-AMERICA, 1952 55 Days 
New stringless green pod bean. It grows upright and keeps its pods well 
off the ground. Pods are round, long, straight, slender, stringless, compara- 
tively free from fibre and of a dark green color. Is ideally suited for ’ 
shipping, canning or freezing. 
WHITE HALF RUNNER 60 Days 
A popular variety in the mountain areas of the mid-south and southeast; 
used mainly for home gardens for snap and shelled beans. Wine—bushy, 
vigorous and productive with short runners. Pods—4 inches long, % inches 
wide, round, medium light green, stringy and fibrous at full size, but has a 
distinctively good flavor, Seed—pure white, oblong, round cross section, 
medium size, 2,500 per pound. 
Bean Seed Field in Idaho 
