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@Michael Lusk, Your bean box showed up in the mail today. Very nice beans. Again many thanks for your work.

Russ Crow's 2019 Bean Show Day #16 Midnight Blue - Semi Runner 85 days to first dry pods. Blossom: pink. Productive plants produce beautiful purple 5.5 inch pods. An original bean named and introduced by Robert Lobitz through the Seed Savers Exchange yearbook in 2001. Total Seed Harvest: 10.45...

Russ Crow's 2019 Bean Show Day #16 Menomenee - Semi Runner, Dry A bean that I discovered in my Capron, Illinois gardens in 1979. The last couple of years it's been putting out a lot of off type seed coats. I've keep picking the Menomenee seeds and regrowing them. This bean might be easily...

Russ Crow's 2019 Bean Show Day #16 Marico - Semi Runner - Dry From Marico county South Africa. I obtained this bean from Will Bonsall of Industry, Maine in the days when he was still making listings in the Seed Savers Exchange yearbook. It's very productive and did wonderfully well this year...

Russ Crow's 2019 Bean Show Day #16 Major Cook's - Pole, All Purpose. Productive plants climb over 8'. 5.5" pods splashed bright red turn deep purple as pods become curved before drying. Multi purpose. Pods are fiberless, thick walled and juicy with a strong flavor. Sweet rich and pleasant. If...

Russ Crow's 2019 Bean Show Day #16 Long Prairie Trout 3.1 - Bush, Dry. Another of the many segregations from the Robert Lobitz Legacy Beans that I've worked with since 2015. This bean produced nice looking bean in the second photo. Total Seed Harvest: 12.95 ounces (367 grams). Long Prairie...

Russ Crow's 2019 Bean Show Day #15 Lynnfield - Pole, Dry. My first encounter with this bean was in the early 1980's as a member of John Withee's Wanigan Associates which was based in Lynnfield, MA. It is a segregation from Lila Stuart that John Withee discovered in one of his bean grow outs...

Russ Crow's 2019 Bean Show Day #15 Louisiana - Pole, Snap. 75 days to snaps and 100 to first dry seed. Heavy yields of green pods streaked with purple. 8 to 9 seeds per pod. Pods remain tender for an extended period. Another of my all time favorite pole snap varieties. People who have gotten...

Russ Crow's 2019 Bean Show Day #15 Long Prairie Trout 3 - Bush dry. Another segregation of a Robert Lobitz Legacy bean. This one looks just like the 2019 Long Prairie 2 off type. It also produced it own off type this summer. Second photo. Total Seed Harvest: 6.70 ounces (189 grams) Long...

Russ Crow's 2019 Bean Show Day #15 Long Prairie 2.2 Bush dry. Another segregation of one of the Robert Lobitz Legacy beans. This beans looks like a light skin toned Jacob's Cattle. This bean did not produce any off types this year. These names are all working titles. If stablized they will get...

Russ Crow's 2019 Bean Show Day #15 Long Prairie 2 - Bush dry. One of the many segregations of Robert Lobitz legacy beans I acquired in 2015. This bean produced one off type of it's own this summer which was similar to one of the other legacy beans segregations. Second photo is it's 2019 off...

Russ Crow's 2019 Bean Show Day #14 Little Falls - Bush dry. This bean is one of the many Robert Lobitz legacy beans. This years grow out looked like last years with the addition of one interesting looking segregation in the second photo. Total Seed Harvest: 8.85 ounces (250 grams). Little...

Russ Crow's 2019 Bean Show Day #14 Lila Stuart - Semi Runner dry. About 110 days to dry seed. A bean from the Wanigan collection I originally grew back in the early 1980's. 18 inch tall plants (45cm). The bean comes out of early SSE member Ernest B. Dana's collection of Etna, N.H. in the...

Russ Crow's 2019 Bean Show Day #14 Lake Avenue Beauty - Bush dry. Blossom pink. 6 inch pods streaked lighly in purple. 90 days to first dry pod then three weeks to dry it's entire pod set. An original bean named and introduced through the Seed Savers Exchange yearbook in 2006 by Robert...

Russ Crow's 2019 Bean Show Day #14 La Pap Segregation - Pole - Dry In 2016 I found an off type in La Pap the kind of reminded me of Bosnian Pole. This bean too struggled to produce any good seed. Total Seed Harvest: 2.20 ounces (62 grams). This La Pap off type produced it's own off type this...