Main Uses ___ Days 
Taken in an Idaho seed field, this picture of Wade beans shows the heavy set of long, 
smooth pods. 
WHITE HALF RUNNER H 60 
An increasingly popular variety in the mountain areas of the Mid-South, and Southeast. 
Said to be the only bean of its type whose young pods, when cooked with a little bacon 
fat, will absorb the bacon flavor. Later set is sometimes matured and harvested for dry 
beans. 
VINE —Bushy and vigorous, with short runners. 
PODS—About 4 inches long and % inch wide, round. Medium light green. Stringy 
and fibrous at full size, but tender and meaty when young. 
SEED—AII white, oblong with round cross-section. 1,400 per pound. 
BUSH WAX POD 
Phaseolus vulgaris 
BRITTLE WAX 
HCF 54 
Round Pod Kidney Wax 
A popular old variety still widely used in home 
gardens and to some extent for canning 
and freezing. Quality of the pods is very good 
VINE —14 to 16 inches tall, erect, compact. Medium 
green in color, and very prolific 
under good growing conditions. 
PODS—6 inches long, round, slightly curved. Strin 
gless and fiberless, tender, fleshy. 
Light yellow in color. 
SEED—White with dark brown to black irregular eye ring. 1,400 per pound. 
