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OPEN POLLINATED 
The open-pollinated varieties are 
rapidly being replaced by new and 
superior Hybrid strains. 
COUNTRY GENTLEMAN (90 
Days)—Seed small, round, slim, 
pointed, shoe peg type, stalk 7 feet, 
ears 7 to 8 inches, tapered, small, 
white kernels (not in rows) very 
closely packed, very deep, slim, 
round top, pure white, very sweet 
and well flavored. 
STOWELL’S EVERGREEN (94 
Days)—Standard main crop vari- 
ety. It is popular for marketing 
and for the home garden. Stalks 7 
to 8 feet; ears 14 to 18 rowed, 7 to 
9 inches long. 
GOLDEN BANTAM (78 Days)— 
Stalks 4 to 5 feet high; ears 6 to 7 
inches long with 8 rows; kernels 
broad, sweet, very tender. 
MICHAEL-LEONARD’S GOLDEN 
HUMMER (60 Days)—One of the 
earliest of the Yellow Sweet Corns 
for market gardeners as well as 
home gardeners. Ears 61% to 7 
inches, 12-rowed; kernel golden 
yellow, medium deep, broad and 
of excellent flavor. 
POP CORN 
MINNHYBRID (85 Days) — This 
hybrid variety is an improvement 
over Japanese Hulless for yield 
and popping. Ears 3 to 4 inches 
long, plump and blunt, Kernels are 
deep pointed with thin _ skins. 
Stalks 5 to 6 ft. tall. 
SOUTH AMERICAN HYBRID 
(105 Days)—Orange yellow ker- 
nels somewhat rounded with very 
high popping expansion. Ears 6 to 
8 in. long, 14 to 16 rowed. Vigorous 
grower, stalk 6 to 7 ft. high. 
ASPARAGUS SEED 
MARY WASHINGTON — Latest 
development of rust resistant as- 
paragus; large, with very tight 
tips of fine quality. 
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MICHAEL-LEONARD VI 
BEANS 
BUSH GREEN PODDED 
VARIETIES 
CULTURE. Beans are easily frost 
killed, so plant them at corn plant- 
ing time, on light, dry land. Cold, 
wet weather will rot the seed in the 
ground and fresh manure causes @ 
rank growth of vine with a lack of 
pods. Hand cultivated beans can be 
drilled in poor soil as close as 18 
inches, but in rich soil with machine 
cultivation, 30 inches is required. 
Drill 6 beans to the foot and cover 
one inch deep, or plant 4 beans to 
the hill, 18 by 24 inches apart. 
Two pounds of seed should plant 
200 feet and 60 pounds an acre. 
Plant every other week for a suc- 
eession up until August first in the 
latitude of Chicago. Frequently 
your later piantings will turn out 
the best. Shallow cultivation only 
should be given at all times and do 
not cultivate when the plant is in 
bloom as the plant will drop its 
blossoms; never cultivate when wet, 
as it causes rust. 
Pick beans before the bulge of 
seed appears and pick them clean 
to continue the plants’. bearing. 
Number of days is from planting to 
first picking. Beans respond well to 
complete commercial fertilizer. Ap- 
ply at planting time and again 
when they blossom. 
BOUNTIFUL (50 Days) — Vine 
light green, 18 inch upright, strong 
growing bush. Stringless at all 
stages. Pod light green, average 
7 inches long by % inch wide, thin 
and flat. Very meaty. Excellent 
market garden and shipping va- 
riety. 
BURPEE’S STRINGLESS GREEN 
POD (50 Days) — Plants large, 
very productive. Pods curved, 
round, 514 to 6 inches long; medi- 
um green, meaty, stringless. Ex- 
cellent quality. One of the best 
varieties for canning cut beans 
and very popular with home gar- 
deners. 
CONTENDER (49 Days) —Pod— 
5146”"x;,", semi-round. Flesh thick, 
fiberless and stringless, medium 
dark green. Plant — 14” to 16”, 
vigorous, mosaic-resistant, very 
prolific, pods borne low. 
GIANT STRINGLESS GREEN 
POD (53 Days)—Widely used for 
canning. Very heavy, stocky vine. 
Pods round, 6 to 61% inches iong, 
of exceptionally fine quality, 
stringless throughout entire 
growth. 
GETABLE 
HORTICULTURAL, DWARF (54 
Days) — Vine very productive, 
compact, upright, with large leav- 
es. Pods 4 to 5 inches long, wide, 
thick, stringless. 
TENDERGREEN (53 Days) — 
Michael-Leonard’s new strain of 
this variety is mosaic resistant. 
Vine medium light, 18-inch bush, 
upright with good leaf growth. 
Pods light green, 6 inch average, 
straight, round, crisp, meaty, 
stringless and without fiber. Very 
fine flavor. One of the best all 
around varieties. 
TOPCROP—ALL AMERICA, 1956 
(52 Days) — Plant medium large 
with leaf similar to Refugee 15-16 
inches tall bush habit. Pods medi- 
um light green, 5% to 6 inches 
long, round, meaty, crisp and 
slightly curved. Strictly stringless 
and fiberless up to advanced 
stages. 
RED VALENTINE, STRINGLESS 
(54 Days) — Plant medium size, 
erect, very productive. Pods 4 to 
414 inches long, medium green, 
round, curved, slim with crease in 
back; stringless; very fleshy, crisp 
and tender. 
WADE — ALL-AMERICA, 1952 
(55 Days) — New stringless green 
pod bean. Grows upright and keeps 
pods well off ground. Pods are 
round, long, straight, slender, 
stringless, comparatively free from 
fiber and of a dark green color. 
Is ideally suited for shipping, can- 
ning or freezing. 
WHITE HALF RUNNER (60 
Days) — A popular variety in the 
mountain areas of the mid-south 
and southeast; used mainly by 
home gardeners for snap and 
shelled beans. Vine — bushy, vig- 
orous 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. 
FIELD OR SHELL VARIETIES 
GREAT NORTHERN OR LARGE 
WHITE NAVY (100 Days)—Vine 
a medium dark color, 14 to 18 
inches, rank, heavy growth with 
short tendrils. Pods medium dark, 
3 inches long, flat and straight. 
Very heavy cropper. Larger, heav- 
ier producer than old Michigan 
Navy, but not equal in quality. 
