DESCRIPTIONS OF VARIETIES 



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rather scanty, with small broad leaflets, medium green, dull, rough, 

 thick. Flowers white. Pods 4 to 4 3 4 inches long, nearly 3 ± inch 

 wide, cross-section ovate with acute ventral edge, straight, only 

 slightly constricted between beans, ends rounded to almost blunt, 

 with short, heavy, rigid curved tip from dorsal edge, not very 

 fleshy, stringy, quite fibrous, coarse-textured, of fair quality only, 

 yellow, which appears rather slowly and often remains with green 

 shade. Seeds 5, 65 to the ounce, about {$ inch long, rarely ' & inch, 

 two-thirds as wide, broad oval or oblong, very plump but not round 

 in cross-section. Color white, mottled irregularly about the hilum 

 and one end with bluish black and maize yellow. 



Disjoin. Refs. 47. A variety that appears to have 

 been grown in this country only in the tests at the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden; but which was widely 

 grown in France, where it originated and was introduced 

 about 1895, probably as a selection from Barbes. Irish 

 says it was like Hundredfold, but the seeds were larger 

 and lighter in color. It differs from the parent variety, 

 Barbes, mainly in pod color. 



Pods thick, fleshy, free from string and fiber until seeds 

 enlarge, of beautiful golden yellow color. Seeds very broad oblong, 

 with abruptly rounded ends, and very thick, in form intermediate 

 between ovoid and thick kidney-shaped, chamois color tinted 

 salmon, with darker eye-ring. 



Double Barrel. Refs. 48, 64, 91. Landreth in 

 1901 was the first to list this variety, but it evidently 

 originated prior to 1892, when a promise was made of 

 sale " after harvest of 1892." 



Plant very much like Maule Butter in habit, but dwarfness, 

 denseness of bush and foliage characters are less marked. Pods 

 are smaller, straighter, and less noticeably " double-barreled." 

 Seeds are narrower, thinner, much more sharply rounded at the end 

 and of a uniform brownish ochre color with darker eye-ring. 



Dwarf Butter. Refs. 48. A European variety 

 but little grown in America, and now apparently 

 unknown anywhere. 



It was noticeable for its very small, compact plants with 

 very dark foliage. Small podded. The seeds were short, broad, 

 thick, and so crowded in the pods that the ends were markedly 

 truncate, giving an almost quadrangular shape to the seeds as 

 viewed from the side. They were light brown in color, with a 

 yellowish tint. 



Dwarf Indian Chief. This is a dwarf form of 

 Algiers or Indian Chief pole bean and one of the oldest 

 wax beans; known in the United States since about 1867. 

 Like most of the black-seeded wax pod beans it has been 

 much confused with other varieties but as with the tall 

 form, it is readily separated from most others by its 

 plump ovoid seeds. Grown at Geneva in 1883, it 

 combined earliness, yield, and quality as did almost no 

 other variety of its time. 



Plant 1 to 1 ! 3 feet tall, slender stemmed but upright, runner- 

 less, moderately vigorous, much branched; foliage medium in 

 amount, varying in color on same plant. Flowers lilac. Pods 

 4'-> - 4 3 4 inches long, slightly curved, rather short tipped, fleshy, 

 thicker than wide, stringless and fiberless, butter yellow, marked 

 purplish before yellowing; seeds 5, rather more than } •_> inch long, 

 very broad oval, or ovoid, plump, black. 



Dwarf Mont D'Or. Refs. 10, 15, 27, 45, 47, 53, 

 63, 66, 79, 84, 93, 94, 97, 98. This bean is probably of 

 French origin, a dwarf selection from the pole bean 

 similarly named. It is one of the most widely spread and 

 most popular wax-pod varieties of France, but in other 

 countries the strictly black-seeded sorts like Dwarf 



Indian Chief and German Black Wax seem to be pre- 

 ferred. It was probably first grown in this country in 

 tests at this Station in 1882, but was soon introduced 

 commercially coming from Germany rather than from 

 its home country. 



Plants about 1 foot tall, erect, runnerless; foliage abundant, 

 light green, rough but not wrinkled, slightly curled, quite thick; 

 leaflets small, }'i to 2 inches long, 1 to 2 inches wide, varying 

 in shape of terminals from slender and sharply taperpointed to 

 almost round with obtuse tips. Flowers pink or purplish. Pods 

 3} 2 to 4^2 inches long, almost straight or slightly curved, with 

 long rounded or pointed ends and stout, straight tips of medium 

 length, from ?g to Js > ncn long, aJmost round, somewhat swollen 

 by beans but not noticeably constricted, fleshy, stringless, fiber- 

 less, tender, of good quality, pale cream to light yellow, some- 

 times slightly flecked with purple. Seeds 4 or 5, very similar to 

 those of Dwarf Indian Chief but smaller, and with abruptly 

 curved ends on side view, distinctly broad, oval when viewed 

 edgewise, with sharply rounded ends, dark reddish purple or rus- 

 seted violet, when old almost black but old seeds when soaked in 

 water clearly show the russeted appearance, while those of Indian 

 Chief become clear violet. 



Dwarf Sugar Wax. Refs. 47. Apparently known 

 in America only through distribution of seeds by the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, and may be 

 either one of two German varieties. 



As described by Denaiffe: Plant 1 ' f, feet tall, with many 

 long runnerlike branches; pods 5 inches long, curved, yellowish, 

 fleshy, stringless; beans small, like small flat marrows; rather late 

 and yield too small to allow recommendation. The other strain 

 is slightly taller, with smaller pods, very slow in yellowing; and 

 with larger, more oval beans. 



Early Stringless Wax. A variety which originated 

 with Olds, prior to 1913, when it was first listed by him. 

 It is said to be a cross between Burpee Stringless Green 

 Pod and Valentine Wax. As grown here in recent tests 

 it falls only slightly short in productivity of Old's and 

 Allan's commendations, and seems an excellent market 

 bean of good quality and handsome appearance, although 

 the pods turn yellow slowly and curve somewhat too 

 much in later stages. 



Plant tall, l'g to l'f feet tall, very erect, with very rigid 

 stems and comparatively few branches. Foliage medium in amount, 

 dark green, slightly glossy, smooth. Leaflets 43 2 t>y 3 ] 4 inches, 

 laterals, as large or larger than terminals, broadest slightly below 

 center, rounded, with short, rather abrupt tips. Flowers white, 

 cream or very lightly blushed. Pods 5 ] 4 to 5 3 4 inches long, 

 straight or slightly curved, early, decidedly curved later, regular 

 or later somewhat constricted, with rounded ends and long, 

 moderately heavy, flexible tips from dorsal edges, less than ' 2 inch 

 wide, round oval in cross-section, but markedly cordate because of 

 deep creaseback, brittle, tender, not especially thick -fleshed, 

 stringless, fiberless, almost fine-textured, light waxy yellow appear- 

 ing slowly. Seeds about 5, about 70 to 75 to the ounce, nearly 

 5 s inch long, half as wide, decidedly flattened, oblong, with abruptly 

 rounded ends, or slightly kidney shaped, yellowish brown in color, 

 perhaps best described as yellow lake or old gold. 



Everlasting. Refs. 45. Grown at Geneva in 1889 

 and found to be an early mid-season dwarf snap bean, 

 short-podded, with long seeds, brown, spotted with 

 dark red. 



Extra Early Wax. A variety which originated with 

 Tait, prior to 1912, seems to have been listed only by 

 that firm, and dropped by them in 1924. It was grown 

 here for three seasons and appeared to deserve its title, 

 but was only fairly productive, flat -podded, and stringy. 



