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eye. Improved Golden Wax blossomed July 13, edible Angust 1 and 

 iMl)e September 20. Beans Miiite, mostly covered with violet blue 

 siilashes. \'ines 14 and pods 1 inches, straight, medium broad, flat, 

 stringless. All rusted before the picking season was over. Vienna 

 Forced, vines 9 inches, pods 4. light green, straight, flat, narrow, string- 

 less. About 10 per cent rusted. Blossomed July 13, edible July 80, 

 ripe September 8. Beans white with small light brown splashes around 

 the eye, Xe Plus VUra, the earliest of all varieties tested: Vines 10 

 inches, pods 4Vi>> light green, narrow, slightly rounded, straight, string- 

 less. About 15 per cent rusted. Blossomed Juh' VI, edible July 27 

 and ripe Septendjer 5. Beans oblong, light brown Avith white eyes. 

 (ireen tieedcd Flageolet, vines 11 and pods 4 inches, dark green, narrow, 

 half-round, partly curved, and stringless when picked early. Blossomed 

 July 15, edible August G and ripe September 25. Beans oblong and 

 l>ale green. The variet}' seems well adapted for canning. None rusted. 

 Xoraxiy, a conventional name given to a variet}', the seed of Avhicli was 

 kindly donated by John B. Love, of Romeo (Mich.), who stated that the 

 beans were secured a few years ago from an emigrant who brought them 

 from Norway. This is a Pole variety of the wax type, and the vines are 

 quite hardy but rust as bad as the bush varieties. The\' are very 

 l)rolific with pods 6 inches long, broad, flat and stringless. The pods 

 started to rust when the picking season was about two-thirds over, 

 and all were rusted on September 20 when most of the beans were ripe. 

 Blossomed July 23 and was edible August 16, the ripe beans being 

 medium size and with a deep violet blue color. Earliest Gidut Advance 

 held out the promise it gave during the first test in 1905, this being the 

 earliest Pole bean tested so far and ripening as early as some of the 

 medium early bush varieties. None rusted and most of the pods were 

 ripe September 10, the beans being medium large size, flat and pure 

 white. ]^ew Wonder is a bush Lima bean of large size and tested for 

 the first time. The vines are 18 inches, very stout, and the pods 314 

 inches and an inch wide. Blossomed July 28 and a few pods had beans 

 of edible size September 5, but none ripened well enougli for seed, nor 

 did any of the Dwarf ^ieva, which was planted with seed which ripened 

 here during the preceding season, though this was probably due to cut- 

 worms rather than to any other cause, for the rows of both varieties 

 were on the outside of the bean plot, and the stalks of nearly every 

 plant which was not destroyed was damaged more or less close above 

 ground and more still below the surface. 



SWEET roHN IN 1905. 



Aside from being due to earlier })laiifing and lo more favorable 

 weather during late summer, the betlei- results may be ascribed to the 

 more exclusive selection of dwarf varieties. T^ntil certain varieties will 

 become acclimated by selection or breeding, these dwarf varieties will 

 be found decidedly better adapted to present climatic conditions, for 

 in the sweet as in the field varieties, small ears generally means earlier 

 ripening, owing to the smaller amount of water which must be evai)o- 

 rated during the i-ipening i)rocess. For quality, some of the dwarf 

 varieties ai'e much superior to the large earl}' varieties and compare 

 favorably with some of the best of the medium late sorts. For produc- 



