Archive image from page 121 of Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878 curtiscobbwashbu1878curt Year: 1878 per qt Early Valentine. Long tender pod; an excellent string-bean 2'i 5 Early Mohawk. Early, productive, and very hardy '>'> ' ' Early China. Red eye; one of the most productive 25 Early Marrowfat. White; an excellent shell-bean; valuable, when dry, for bating .20 Red Bush Cranberry. One of the best string-beans 40 Refugee, or Thousand to One. A favorite string with many; very productive . .2


Archive image from page 121 of Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878 curtiscobbwashbu1878curt Year: 1878 per qt Early Valentine. Long tender pod; an excellent string-bean 2'i 5 Early Mohawk. Early, productive, and very hardy '>'> ' ' Early China. Red eye; one of the most productive 25 Early Marrowfat. White; an excellent shell-bean; valuable, when dry, for bating .20 Red Bush Cranberry. One of the best string-beans 40 Refugee, or Thousand to One. A favorite string with many; very productive . .25 White Kidney, or Royal Dwarf. Late and productive .2j Dwarf Horticultural, or Zebra. Excellent, gi-eeu or dry .25 BEANS, POLE (Phaseolus Vulgaris). ) 'It, German, Stanger Bohne. â French, Haricots a rames. â SpanLsh, Judias. JAs a class, these are less hardy than the dwarfs, and arc not usu:dly planted so early in the season. The common practice is to plant in hills three feet or tliree and a half apart, â with a stake or pole to run upon. By 3iaif,15 cents a pint extra. per qt. London Horticultural, or Speckled Cranberry. Jlay be useil as a snap, or, â when more advanced, shelled, as the Lima; veiy productive . . . .40 Red Cranberry. This is one of the oldest and mosj familiar of garden beans; ex- cellent as a string or snap bean 40 White Case Knife. Most prolific of the ranning varieties. As a shelled bean, it is of excellent quality in its green state, and, when ripe, farinaceous and well-flavored 40 Indian Chief, or Wax. One of the best varieties either for snaps or shelled; re- markable for its fine, tender, and richly-colored pods; veiy productive . .40 Giant Wax. Recently introduced, and dilTering essentially from the old Wax Bean, being of a more robust growth and more productive. The pods are from six to nine inches in length, and from three-fourths to one mch in breadth; the beans, when ripe, are of a reddish color. The pods, â when fit for use, are of


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