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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Dwarf Algerian Black-seeded Butter Bean. An established 

 dwarf variety of the Agerian Wax or Butter Bean, with rather 



large yellow-stalked 

 leaves, the colour of 

 which varies, on the 



Digoin Dwarf Wax Bean. 



same plant, from dark 

 to light green. Flowers 

 lilac ; pods very fleshy 

 and butter-colour; seeds 

 black, egg - shaped, a 

 little smaller than those 

 of the Tall-growing 

 variety. This is an early 

 kind, very productive, 

 and of excellent quality, 

 and is one of the most 

 extensively grown varie- 

 ties of Kidney Beans. 

 It has the precious 

 peculiarity that the pods 



on maturity become curved or bent, thus escaping contact with 



the soil. 



The Black Wax or Butter Bean is an early dwarf, with 



pale gray-green foliage and black seed. It may be considered 



as identical with the Dwarf Algerian Black-seeded Bean. 



The Prolific German Wax or Butter Bean, cultivated in the 



United States, differs 



only from the Dwarf 



Algerian in having the 



pods slightly longer, 



more curving and 



more swollen. 



Long- podded 



Dwarf Algerian 



Butter Bean. This 



is to be a sub-variety 



of the Dwarf Algerian 



Butter Bean, differing 



in its longer pods, 



and also the shape of 



its seeds, which, in- 

 stead of being egg- 

 shaped, are almost 



cylindrical, nearly 



} in. long and over J in. broad and thick. The pods are 



very free from membrane, and are more slender and less 



Dwarf Algerian Black-seeded Butter Bean 

 (^ natural size). 



