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Title: Descriptive catalog of vegetables
Identifier: descriptivecatal1949asso (find matches)
Year: 1949 (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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Potomac: a modern type of pole bean POLE BEANS (continued) Lyoth width of pod of pod inches inches Days POTOMAC 6y2 Vb 66 All-America Bronze Medal, 1943. Bred by us primarily to re- place the old Ideal Market with a more vigorous, better-climbing stringless type. Widely adapted and very prolific, resistant to common bean mosaic and some forms of rust; pods trim, dark green, straight and practically round; stringless at all stages, meaty and of fine table quality. Seeds black: 100 per oz. RIALTO _ 7 % 60 A variety of white-seeded Kentucky Wonder type, developed at our Pacific Coast breeding station. Resistant to powdery mil- dew, to some forms of rust, and highly tolerant to bean mosaic. Plant vigorous and productive; pods round to near round, smooth, fairly straight, stringless at all stages, and of excellent quality. Seeds white: 85 per oz. Scarlet Runner Phaseolus coccineus , S 5/g 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 (Strain No. 231) . 6% Y% 64 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 heavy, vigorous and productive; resistant to common bean mosaic and certain strains of rust. Provides an excellent canned or frozen pack from the fleshy, stringless pods, which retain their quality through the larger sieve sizes. Seeds small, white: 100 per oz. STRINGLESS BLUE LAKE B-5 (Strain No. 228) 6% y8 58 Same as Strain No. 231 but earlier maturing.

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