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Feas and Beans 



133. Black Wax bean (X about 1). 



Broad Bean 

 The broad bean is a stiff erect plant, as hardy as peas, 

 grown in Europe for food, either the green or dry beans 

 being used. It is not commonly 

 known in this country, appar- 

 ently because the summers are 

 too hot; and the winters in the 

 North are so severe that it can- 

 not be planted in autumn and 

 carried over, as in the milder 

 parts of Europe. In the southernmost States and on the 



Pacific Coast 

 the crop may 

 be seeded in 

 September to 

 N o V e m 

 ber. The beans 

 are large. 

 They make a 

 rather coarse 

 but never- 

 theless very 

 excellent 

 dish. They 

 are sometimes 

 grown for 

 stock feed, 

 and for green- 

 m a n u r - 

 ing. Broad 

 134. Black Wax (X 'A). bcans Eppar- 



