4 CCC __MrROYAL QUALITY, SEEDS —— 
purple splashed color. Seeds are purple and 
buff splashed. Popular as a canning variety. 
RED VALENTINE EARLY (52 days)— 
An old time sort it is still popular for early 
gardens. Plants grow upright 15 inches tall, 
bearing medium green foliage. The pods are 
round and eurved, of a medium green color, 
fleshy but stringy. They usually measure 
about 5 by % inches. Seeds are buff and 
red speckled. 
TENDERGREEN STRINGLESS IM- 
PROVED (54 days)—This popular variety 
has been bred into a more productive strain. 
It contends for a high place as a home garden 
and shipping sort. Plants stretch up 18 to 20 
inches tall with dark green foliage. The round 
stringless pods, a medium green color, meas- 
ure around 6 by % inches. Seeds are purple, 
tan mottled. 
TENDERLONG 15 (56 days)—This variety 
has been bred to maintain the superior fea- 
tures of Tendergreen with added disease re- 
sistance. The round pods measure 6% by % 
inches, stringless and fiberless, with a dark 
green color. Seeds are a dull purplish, black 
mottled with buff. 
TENNESSEE GREEN POD or BROWN 
BUNCH (50 to 52 days)—An old time favor- 
ite, especially in the South, because a heavy 
cropper and of good quality, but becomes a 
little tough and stringy. The plants grow up- 
right to 15 inches with dark green leaves. 
Pods are flat and broad, somewhat curved, 
medium to dark green in color. Seeds are 
broad and flat, in color a shaded brown. 
TOPCROP (50 days)—A new variety bred 
by the U.S.D.A. and developed as a selection 
from a cross between Full Measure and 
Refugee. Bred for disease resistance and pro- 
ductive qualities, it shows a concentrated pod 
set and promises an excellent canning, freez- 
ing and home garden variety. This vigorous 
plant grows upright to possibly 20 or 21 
inches, and slightly spreading. The straight, 
smooth, round, medium green pods measure 
some 6 by % inches. Seeds are oblong in 
shape and show brown and buff mottling. 
WADE (55 days)—Also developed by the 
U.S.D.A. and an all-American selection in 
1952. The early promise indicates a strong 
bid for the shipping, canning and freezing 
market, and needless to say for home gardens. 
A strong, erect growing, disease resistant 
plant, it reaches 18 to 21 inches tall, showing 
dark green foliage. The round pods are 5% 
to 6 inches long, of attractive appearance, 
medium green in color and a highly desirable 
quality. Seeds are variable in color, usually 
a dark reddish-brown. 
Field or Dry Shell Varieties 
GREAT NORTHERN (90 days)—A popu- 
lar dry shell or baking variety with an exten- 
sive distribution in northern areas. The plant 
is hardy, 11 to 15 inches tall, with a dark 
green color and grows bunching and spread- 
ing, with partial vining. Pods are 2% to 3 
by % inches. Seeds are long and white, a flat- 
tened oval and quite a little larger than Navy 
beans. 
IMPROVED NAVY or MICHELITE (90 to 
95 days)—An improved high yielding type of 
Navy, famous as ‘‘Boston Baked Beans.”’ The 
small, white seeds are a rounded oval. The 
pods are not edible and develop fiat and thick, 
3% by % inches. Plants show 15 to 20 inches 
tall, dark green in color with a vining tend- 
ency. 
PINTO—This bean is suited to the dryland 
conditions of the Southwestern states. 
RED KIDNEY (95 days)—This variety is 
suitable for dry beans and canning. Inedible 
pods develop 5 by % inches, semi-round; 
plants extend 14 to 16 inches high, prolific 
in habit and medium green in color. Seeds 
are a dark mahogany red, a flat oval and 
kidney shaped. 
Pole Green and Wax Pod 
Varieties 
ASPARAGUS or YARD LONG (70 days) 
—A novel variety for the home garden, grows 
5% to 6% feet tall. It resembles the Cow 
Pea and better suited to Southern localities. 
Pods measure 18 by % inches and show a 
light green color. Seeds are small oval with 
a reddish brown color and a black eye spot. 
CREASEBACK WHITE, BLUE LAKE, 
WHITE CORNFIELD (65 days)—A popular, 
Southern variety for the home garden. It 
bears over a long season and climbs 4 to 5 
feet. Round, green pods develop 5% to 6 by 
3 inches and are tender, stringless, and fiber- 
less in the earlier stages. Seeds are small, 
ivory white, and kidney shaped, suitable for 
dry shell beans. 
CREASEBACK STRIPED, CORNFIELD, 
NANCY DAVIS, SCOTIA (72 days)—A 
popular Southern pole bean which climbs 
about 5 feet and shows medium green foliage. 
A prolific bearer of round and _ stringless 
pods measuring 6 by % inches, medium green 
in color, becoming purple splashed. Seeds are 
oval, medium small and in color mottled and 
striped brown. 
CREASEBACK BLACK, BLACK CORN.- 
FIELD, IDEAL MARKET, POLE BLACK 
VALENTINE (60 days)—As an earlier pole 
bean than Kentucky Wonder and bearing 
fleshy, brittle, tender, stringless, dark green 
pods 5 by % inches, it is gaining in popu- 
larity. The productive vines climb 8% to 4 
feet with medium green foliage. The small, 
oval seeds are a shiny jet black. 
CUTSHORT, CORNHILL (75 days)—A 
widely known pole bean, growing 4 to 5 feet 
tall, with loose twining vines, and medium 
to a dark green color. The variety is produc- 
tive, enjoying a long season, producing round- 
ish, fleshy, brittle pods, almost stringless. 
These measure around 3 to 4 by + inches. 
Seeds are a grayish-white splashed reddish. 
