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Title: Descriptive catalog of vegetables
Identifier: descriptivecatal1947asso (find matches)
Year: 1947 (1940s)
Authors: Associated Seed Growers, Inc; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Herbs Catalogs
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Associated Seed Growers, Inc.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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18 ASSOCIATED SEED GROWERS, INC. POLE BEANS—contd. Length Width of pod of pod inches inches Days Scarlet Runner Phaseolus multiflorus 5 s/& 90 Of large plant growth, 12-15 ft. with brilliant scarlet flowers. Used for decorative purposes as well as for snap and green shelled beans. Pods broad, oval, meaty. Seeds long-oval, dark purple mottled with bluish violet, but vary in different strains: 25 per oz. STRINGLESS BLUE LAKE B-5 (Strain No. 231) 6y4 3/8 Developed at our Pacific Coast breeding station. The pods differ from those of regular Blue Lake in being stringless at all stages, fully round, somewhat longer and darker in color. Plant vigorous and productive; resistant to common bean mosaic and certain strains of rust. Pods tender and of fine quality with much the same flavor as Kentucky Wonder, one of its parents. Seeds small, oval, white: 100 per oz. An earlier-maturing strain (No. 228) is also available.
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Stringless Blue Lake B-5: An increasingly popular Asgrow strain Striped Creaseback (Genuine Cornfield) 6 & 72 An old variety for snap bean use. Pods thick-oval, straight, medium green at picking stage, mottled with purplish brown at later stages; fleshy, of fair quality, stringy. Seeds oval, tan with brown mottling and stripes: 120 per oz. Tennessee Wonder 8 s/s 70 Plant medium, of good climbing habit, lightly productive. Pods light green, round, constricted, deeply creasebacked, nearly stringless and fiberless, somewhat coarse in texture. Seeds slate-gray marked with long stripes of dark olive-green: 65 per oz.

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