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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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BREEDERS AND GROWERS 9 Length of pod inches LANDRETH'S STRINGLESS GREEN POD 5% Plants large and erect; pods approximately round, slightly curved, medium green, stringless and of fine quality. Seeds coffee brown: 80 per oz. LOGAN 6 Developed at the U. S. Vegetable Breeding Laboratory from U. S. No. 5 Refugee and Asgrow Black Valentine primarily for resistance to adverse conditions in the Southeast. Resistant to common bean mosaic and powdery mildew but susceptible to halo blight. Pods will set in hot weather but are borne rather low; round, green, stringless and relatively resistant to spotting from bacterial blight. Seeds chocolate brown, mottled with dun: 70 per oz. Low's Champion 5 Plant medium, erect, moderately productive. Pods light green, straight, flat, stringless, and of good flavor. Seeds ox-blood red with white eye: 50 per oz. Width of pod inches Days 50 55 55
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Fulcrop: the new All-America Gold Medal winner PENCIL POD BLACK WAX 6 % 55 A leading wax variety for home and market gardens, originated by Calvin N. Keeney. Plant large, stocky, vigorous, and strongly productive. Pods round, slightly curved, fleshy, golden yellow, tender, entirely stringless, without fiber, brittle and of finest quality. Seeds oblong, slightly flattened, solid black: 90 per oz. Plentiful 7 % 50 Introduced by Ferry-Morse Seed Co. and awarded All-America Bronze Medal for 1939. Primarily a black-seeded Bountiful, obtained by crossing that variety with Sure Crop Wax. Plants strong and productive, pods flat, light green, fairly straight, stringless and of good quality. Seeds 75 per oz.

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