Book excerpt: Excerpt from Meyer-Stisser's Garden Book, 1923 Hopkins Improved Extra Early Bed Valentine - One of the most popular early snap beans with round, fleshy pods about five inches in length; very brittle, tender and of fine quality. Pt. 250; qt. 400; pk. Black Valentine, or May Queen - Has very long handsome round pods, and being immensely productive places this variety as one of the most profitable for the market gardener. It is very early. Pt. 300; qt. 500; pk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.