l6o New Vegetables for 1869. 



NEW VEGETABLES FOR 1869. 



By Fearing Burr, Hingham, Mass. 



A GREATER number of fine new vegetables have been introduced this 

 season than for several previous years. We notice one of them below, and 

 shall hereafter call attention to others. 



Dwarf white-seeded, waxen-podded Bean. — This new variety was sent 

 out by Ernst Benary, seed smanat Erfurt, Prussia, in the spring of 1869, 

 and promises to be a valuable accession to our list of dwarf garden-beans. 

 The plant rarely attains a height of more than ten or twelve inches, and the 

 leaves are relatively small. The pods are rather short and broad, somewhat 

 flattened, of a delicate creamy or waxen-white color in all stages of growth, 

 and contain about four medium-sized, roundish, compressed white seeds. 



Plants from seeds sown May 20 afforded pods for the table about the 

 middle of July ; and the crop was ready for harvesting the 20th of August. 



The size of the plant considered, no variety excels it in iDroductiveness. 

 From top to bottom, the stalk was literally crowded with beautiful pods, 

 which, instead of being developed in succession, were put forth at one and 

 the same time, progressed in growth, and ripened off together. As a 

 " snap-short," or string-bean, it is recommended for cultivation \ though 

 many sorts inferior to it for shelling in the green state find a place in our 

 gardens. 



Compared with the Dwarf Indian Chief, which it somewhat resembles, 

 the plant is of lower growth, the leaves are smaller, the pods are broader or 

 more flattened, and the seeds are pure white ; while those of the last named 

 are indigo-blue. 



Though the pods have not quite the roundness and solid fleshy charac- 

 ter of those of the Dwarf or Running Indian Chief, yet they possess in a 

 large degree the same delicate, marrowy quality and flavor for which these 

 sorts are so justly prized. For small gardens, or where space is limited, 

 there is no variety superior to this now in cultivation. 



The seeds employed in the trial were received from Mr. George Everett, 

 seedsman for Messrs. Ames & Co., Boston, Mass. 



