BEANS 
(Shipping and Canning Types) 
(Dwarf or Snap Green Pod Types) 
CULTURE: Garden beans are tender and shouldn’t 
be planted until the ground warms up in the spring. 
Beans do better in soil that is loamy and not too 
heavy. Too much moisture should be avoided, and 
they should not be cultivated when wet. Plant in 24 
inch rows and space about 6 inches apart in the row. 
Home garden types should be planted successively 
about two weeks apart in the spring. Shipping 
types are planted for spring and fall markets only. 
Asgrow Black Valentine Stringless (Improved Type) 
—A selection out of Black Valentine Stringless with 
a new look—more slender, longer-looking, deeper 
green pod with a more concentrated harvest. Pods 
are 6” long, slim and oval in diameter, nearly 
straight, with curling stringless tip. Bush is about 
18” tall, spreading, and vigorous. Seed is black and 
slender. 55 days. 
Bountiful — A flat-podded, fine quality shipping 
type, which is uniform, attractive, and very early. 
‘Bush is about 16 inches tall, erect, light green. Pods 
are about 6% inches long by % inch wide, light 
green, flat, straight, stringless, smooth, and of good 
quality. Seed is straw colored with brown eye, and 
_ is excellent for baking or soups. 50 days. 
Contender — Excellent new USDA variety for 
Southern shippers and gardeners. Resistant to 
' common bean mosaic and mildew, heat tolerant, 
_ heavy-yielding, attractive, good quality. Pods are 
about 8” long, oval, dark green, stringless, slightly 
curving. Seed is light gray and brown mottled. 
- Green Shipper — Our own introduction, selected 
_ out of Logan but taller, later, more uniform, bear- 
ing pods well up out of the dirt. An attractive snap 
. bean for canning and shipping; resistant to common 
bean mosaic. Pods are about 6” long, round in di- 
_ameter, stringless, crisp, straight, smooth, deep 
green. Yield is heavy and concentrated. Plants 
Bele Topcrop but are taller and deeper green. 
ays. 
| Plentiful — Black seeded shipping type similar to 
| Bountiful but with slightly longer, thicker, darker 
_ pods of fine quality and flavor. Plant is about 18 
| inches tall, productive, and moderately disease- 
| resistant. Pods are about 7% inches long by 7/16 
| inches wide, thick flat, dark green, stringless and 
' erisp. Seed is oval, black. 50 days. 
| Seminole — A new disease-resistant snap bean bred 
|| by the Everglades Experiment Station in Florida. 
Pods are deep green, smooth, firm, straight, round 
‘in diameter, and stringless, resembling Tender- 
| green but thicker like Topcrop yet smooth. 
- Tendergreen Improved—A mosaic resistant, higher- 
yielding, uniform type of Tendergreen with slightly 
longer, slim, straight, attractive, 6” pods of dark 
green color. Bush is tall and spreading like Black 
_Valentine Stringless, and bears pods all over the 
plant in successive set-ons offering several pickings. 
» Seed is oblong, brownish-purple. 55 days. Pods 
are round in diameter without appearing thick. 
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