Title: Descriptive catalog of vegetables for canners
Identifier: descriptivecata1937asso_0 (find matches)
Year: 1937 (1930s)
Authors: Associated Seed Growers, Inc; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Canning and preserving Equipment and supplies Catalogs; 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 OF SEEDS FOR CANNERS 5 BEANS-Continued MOSAIC RESISTANT STRAINS GREEN REFUGEE OF STRINGLESS Length of pods inches IDAHO REFUGEE 5^ Developed by Dr. J. C. Walker and Dr. W. H. Pierce cooperatively and introduced by the University of Idaho in 1934; resistant to common bean mosaic. Plant of true Refugee type and strongly prolific. Pods longer than regular Refugee, straight, round, silver-green, stringless, without fiber; seed purple-blue splashed with buff. 6 days earlier than Keeney's Stringless Green Refugee and Wisconsin Refugee. Canning tests show high quality. U. S. NO. 5 REFUGEE 5^ Developed and introduced in 1935 by the Division of Fruit and Vegetable Crops and Diseases of the United States Deparment of Agriculture. A cross between U. S. Xo. 1 and a mosaic resistant rogue from Stringless Green Refugee. Plant large, with many short tendrils, strongly prolific. Pods round, stringless, light silver-green, without fiber, of excellent flavor; seed in size and shape like Refugee but with brownish mottling. WISCONSIN REFUGEE 5 to 5^ Developed by Dr. J. C. Walker and Dr. W. H. Pierce cooperatively and introduced by the University of Wisconsin in 1934; resistant to common bean mosaic; in season and plant character very similar to Keeney's Stringless Green Refugee. Pods slightly curved, medium long, round, stringless, of fine quality. Seed violet-purple splashed with pale buff. Scores high in canning test. Width Days from of pods planting inches to canning H 64 63 70
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Idaho Refugee, the New Mosaic Resistant Bean

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