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Northrup, King & Co.’s Descriptive 
List of Vegetables 
ARTICHOKE ASPARAGUS 
Green Globe Mary Washington 
Plant—3 to 5 feet tall. Developed by the U. S. Dept. of Agric. 
Heads—3 to 4 inches in diameter, bluntly for resistance to Asparagus rust. Pro- 
cone shaped and deep green. ductive and uniform, the spears are 
early, large, succulent and hold tight 
A perennial, the flower buds of which are fips over a lone period. 
the edible portion. It requires a long 
season to develop and, therefore, pro- 
duction is limited to the South and 
West Coast. 
BEANS 
Northrup-King Bean seed is grown in the Inter-Mountain area of the Far-West where 
soil and climatic conditions combine best to produce good seed. Trained men supervise 
planting, rogueing, harvesting and threshing of crops. 
At our Idaho and Minnesota breeding and trial grounds, the high quality of Bean seed 
in use is maintained by plant selection, establishing of pure lines, and increasing basic 
seed stock. Here annually observations are also made of new introductions by other Bean 
breeders. On this basis strains are selected for further study. When the variety meets our 
required standards it is added to our list. 
The maturity days listed after the varieties described are based on average perform- 
ances at our trial grounds near Minneapolis: 
Wax and Green Beans are noted at snap stage. 
Lima Beans are noted at edible stage. 
Field Beans are noted at maturity. 
A section of N. K. & Co.'s bean trials near Minneapolis 
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