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Title: Descriptive catalog of vegetables for canning and quick freezing
Identifier: descriptivecata1940asso_0 (find matches)
Year: 1940 (1940s)
Authors: Associated Seed Growers, Inc; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Canning and preserving; Frozen fruit; Frozen vegetables; Vegetables Preservation; Canning and preserving Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Vegetables 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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6 ASSOCIATED SEED GROWERS, INC. BEANS-Continued Width inches inches Days LOW'S CHAMPION (MAINE CRANBERRY) 5 s/8 55 Used by a few canners in the Eastern States. Holds long in green snap stage. Plant medium, erect, moderately productive. Pods light green, straight, flat, stringless, and of good quality. Seed ox-blood red with white eye: 50 per oz. â U. S. NO. 5 REFUGEE $y2 z/% 63 Developed and introduced in 1935 by the U. S. Dept. of Agri- culture. Highly resistant to common bean mosaic. Plant similar to Keeney's Stringless Green Refugee, pods slightly smaller in diameter and longer; light silver-green and devoid of purple splashing, round, straight, stringless and fiberless. Seed of Refugee type but mottled brown: 105 per oz. RED KIDNEY 5% % 95 A commercial variety of fine quality for baked beans. Plant large, vigorous, productive. Pods waxy green color, oval flat, stringy, tough and fibrous. Seed reddish brown: 50 per oz. WHITE KIDNEY 5s/A i/2 100 A commercial variety of excellent quality for baking. Plant large, erect, bushy, compact, vigorous and productive. Seed long, white, kidney shaped: 48 per oz. WHITE MARROW 5% % 100 A commercial variety of fine quality for pork and beans; excel- lent for baking. Plant large, with semi-runners; hardy, pro- ductive. Seed rather short-oval, white: 80 per oz. WHITE PEA-BEAN (WHITE NAVY) 4 % 90 Robust and Scofield are selected disease-resistant strains. Best known of the commercial varieties for baking. Plant large, spreading, with many runners; heavily productive. Pods flat, tough, stringy. Seed small, round-oval, white: 130 per oz.
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Giant Stringless Green Pod: a well-known Asgrow variety *Suitable for quick freezing.

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