Kentucky Wonder 
KENTUCKY WONDER, OLD HOME.- 
STEAD, TEXAS PROLIFIC (65 days)—No 
other pole bean has enjoyed a wider popu- 
larity over a longer period. It is useful for 
crops when young and green, shell beans at 
a later stage. Pods are borne in clusters 
(7 or 8 by % inches). Long bearing in habit, 
of a medium silver green color, they are meaty 
and fleshy, only mildly stringy but fibrous. 
This vigorous, prolific plant is a good climber 
up to 4 to 5 feet. Seeds are a flat oval shape, 
a light brown in color. 
KENTUCKY WONDER WHITE SEEDED, 
BURGER’S STRINGLESS (65 days)—St. 
Louis Perfection is similar. McCaslan Pole 
also similar, but slightly earlier and some 
consider a little more productive. Good for 
both dry shell and snap beans. The plant is 
a fair climber extending 4 to 5 feet, medium 
green in color and fairly vigorous and pro- 
ductive. Pods measure 6 by % inches, a 
thick-oval shape and a dull silvery green color. 
They are fleshy, fibrous, and mostly string- 
less, especially when young. Seeds are white, 
in shape a long flat-oval. 
KENTUCKY WONDER WAX (68 days)— 
The main pole wax pod variety, in ways simi- 
lar to green-pod Kentucky Wonder except in 
the light waxy yellow pods (7 by % inches) 
ROYAL QUALITY SEEDS 
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which are oval, flat and inclined to be stringy 
and fibrous. The plant is a good climber, 4 
to 5 feet tall, and exhibits medium to dark 
green foliage. Seeds are a chocolate brown 
color, in shape a flattened oval. 
LAZY WIFE, WHITE CRANBERRY (75 
days)—-Used as a garden snap, shell, also as 
a dry bean. Seeds are ivory white, small and 
nearly globular. They are borne in glossy 
green pods 6 by % inches, which are fleshy, 
brittle and tender when in a young stage. 
Plant grows about 5 feet tall and bears glossy 
green foliage. 
LONDON HORTICULTURAL or SPECK- 
LED CRANBERRY (70 days)—An old time 
snap and green shelled bean. The prolific 
climbing vines reach a length of 4 feet. Pods 
measure around 5 by % inches, a flat oval 
shape and fleshy with a dark green color 
when young, becoming a light green splashed 
with red in shell stage. The large seeds are 
buff splashed with a dark red. 
MISSOURI WONDER, NOXALL, NANCY 
DAVIS (65 days)—Useful for snaps when 
young and green, shell purposes later. Popu- 
iar in the West and South. The dark green 
plant stretches up about 5% to 6 feet tall 
and bears curved, thick oval pods 6 by % 
inches, fibrous and stringy. Seeds are plump, 
oval, grey-buff mottled with tan. 
SCARLET RUNNER (80 days)—Useful 
for ornamental purposes as the flowers have 
an attractive scarlet color. Also of value for 
green shell beans. The plant grows 12 to 15 
feet tall with a dense, glossy, dark green 
foliage. It bears broad, light green pods (5 
by % inches), stringless in an early stage. 
Seeds are large, a dark purple mottled with 
violet. 
TENNESSEE WONDER, BROWN SICKLE, 
EGG HARBOR (68 days)—A good climber 
(4 to 4% feet), bears round, tender, brittle, 
fiberless, nearly stringless pods of fair qual- 
ity (8 by % inches). Seeds are a slate gray 
with long, dark olive green stripes and long 
oval shaped. 
Edible Soy Beans 
BANSEI (95 days)—Used to some extent 
in home gardens for green shell beans, also 
by commercial canners and freezers. Seeds 
are oval in shape, yellow in color, borne in 
pods 2% by % inches, with 2 or 3 seeds to 
the pod. The plant grows upright nearly 2 
feet tall with green foliage. 
Lima Beans 
Dwarf Limas 
BUSH LIMA, BURPEE’S IMPROVED (80 
days)—The flat pods develop 5 by 1% 
inches, medium green in color, with 4 or 5 
large seeds. Plant grows 20 inches high, erect 
and spreading, with occasional short runners 
showing medium green foliage. Seeds large, 
