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mentioned under No. 10 in the green-pod notes. It would seem, 

 that the same variety is sometimes placed in both groups of these 

 bush beans. "Yosemite Mammoth'' (146) is of line quality, 

 having a large, round, yellowish pod, with less seeds than the 

 black wax sorts, is not stringy, and has a flesh of excellent flavor. 



The Black Wax varieties are good as to productiveness, earli- 

 ness and color, but they soon get too^ large for easing, and the 

 color of their seed is not desirable. 



All the white-seeded varieties did well, and a separate plant- 

 ing was made O'f these, in order to effect crosses among them 

 the more readily. Owing to the lateness of the season, but four 

 mature "suspects" were obtained. The "Golden Wnx'' stands 

 high as to color and productiveness, but is more strmg and less 

 tender than some varieties mentioned above. Among the desir- 

 able characteristics of the wax beans are earliness, productive- 

 ness, and light-colored, large, round stringless pods, containing 

 few white seeds. 



Seed Holders for Beans, Etc. 



In the study "of the many varieties of beans, it is necessary 

 to have the ."^eeds, for example, so that all of a gi'O'up may be 

 brought under the eye at a glance. In the case shown at the 

 top of Plate XI, are the fifty-six sets of seeds of the green pod 

 bush beans, extending from the upper left-hand corner to the 

 empty pocket in the third row. Thus, "Best of All" ( 1 ) is at 

 the corner named, and, passing along the upper row, the corre- 

 sponding corner on the right is occupied with seeds of "Light- 

 ning" (25), and just below it, upon the end of the second row, 

 is "W^arren" (50). The small white sorts are easily seen near 

 the middle of the second row, namely, "Crystal" (lo), "Pro- 

 lific Tree'" (34), "The Silver" (37) and "Silver Bush" (38). 

 Any differences in the seeds of these three numbers are quickly 

 detected. As a matter of fact, they are all much alike. The 

 medium-sized white seeds are easily located, as "Boston Snap" 

 (3), "Emperor William" ( 16) and "Everbearing" ( 17). The last 

 two are of the same long type, while No. 3 is a plump oval bean" 

 The "large" include "First on Market" (23), which is a flat 

 bean, somewhat resembling the limas of the Sieva type, and the 

 pair at 28 and 29 are both "white marrowfats," and are seen to 

 be practically alike. 



When it comes to the other l>eans, the reds, broAvns, and even 

 the mottled sorts, give nearly the same dark appearance in the 



