BEANS 
(Green-Pod Snap Beans—Continued) 
- Giant Stringless (Long Pod Strain) — A very fine 
_ garden and canning bean, attractive, well-flavored, 
and productive. Bush is about 16 inches tall, me- 
dium green. Pods are about 7 inches or more in 
length, round, thick and fleshy, stringless, of good 
quality and appearance. Seed is yellow, long, cylin- 
| drical. 55 days. 
Ranger — A Refugee-type green pod variety with 
; white seeds which make this an excellent shell bean 
also. Resistant to mosaic and mildew, vigorous and 
| prolific. Plants are about 14 inches tall, spreading, 
with half-runners, pointed leaves. Pods are 414 to 5 
inches long, round, straight, stringless, light green, 
ae concentrated. Seed is white and cylindrical. 
| 55 days. 
' Red Valentine Stringless — Fine home garden va- 
riety, well-flavored, stringless, and productive. 
Plant is about 15 inches tall, light green. Pods are 
round, light green, thick-oval, stringless, somewhat 
Bact Seed is purplish red, splashed with buff. 
ays. 
- Sulphur — A vigorous, well-flavored home garden 
variety with branching, productive vines about 17 
‘Inches tall. Pods are about 5 inches long, round and 
_ plump, nearly straight, light green, stringy. Seed is 
_plump, oval, sulphur colored, brownish eye. 55 days. 
Tennessee Green Pod — An early, popular, fine- 
flavored garden variety. Bush is about 15 inches 
tall, dark green, sturdy, very productive. Pods are 
nearly 7 inches long, broad, and flat, straight, some- 
what fibrous and stringy, but with ‘excellent flavor 
and cooking qualities, like Kentucky Wonder. Seed 
is greenish brown, flat. 52 days. 
‘White Half Runner—A white-seeded, green podded 
‘bean of excellent cooking qualities, used by home 
-gardeners in many sections as both a green pod 
-and a shell bean. A hardy climbing, prolific plant 
reaching 4 to 5 feet tall on fertile soils but issuing 
only a short runner on light, sandy soil. Bush is 
about 16 inches in Idaho with a runner about 18 
‘inches long. It blooms and bears until frost-killed. 
Pods are thick-flat, 4 to 4% inches long, somewhat 
stringy, blunt-ended. Seed is all white. 65 days. 
BEANS 
(Baking, Soup, and Dry Shell Varieties) 
‘Dark Red Kidney — Used in dry state in baking, 
soup, and chili. Has fine edible qualities. Bush is 
‘about 16 to 18 inches tall, erect, compact, medium 
green, quite prolific. Pods are almost 6 inches long, 
‘flat, broad, stringy, not edible. Seed is large and 
thick, kidney-shaped, dark red. 90 days. 
Great Northern — Popular baking and soup variety 
of dry shell bean. Plant grows about 12 inches tall 
and spread with short runners as it grows, very 
‘productive, hardy, dark green. Pods are only 4 
inches long by % inch wide, oval, tough, stringy, 
not edible. Seed is oval, fairly large, white, has very 
good cooking qualities. 90 days. 
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