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AMERICAN VARIETIES OF GARDEN BEANS. 



4h inches long, and usually containing 5 or G seeds crowded in pod. Dry pods easy 

 to thrash. Dry seeds medium in size, proportionally short, roundish oval through 

 cross section, generally rounded at ends, slightly larger at one end than at other, 

 rounded or full at eye, white with mottling of pansy violet and maize yellow around 

 eye and ends, covering about one-fourth of seed. 



Comparison. — General usefulness and value same as described for Golden Wax 

 and, although exchanges of varieties can be made without objection, the two stocks 

 should never be mixed if an even and satisfactory growth is to be obtained. After 

 Golden Wax this variety is most like Detroit Wax, differing principally in being 

 stringless, without fiber, less flat podded, and earlier in season. 



Synonyms. — Golden Jersey Wax, Green's Golden German Wax, Grenell's Improved 

 Golden Wax, Grenell's Rustproof Wax, New York Golden Wax, Rustproof Golden 

 Wax. 



History. — Introduced about 1884. Originated by W. H. Grenell, of Pierrepont 

 Manor, N. Y. 



Illustrations. — Ripe seeds -are shown on Plate II, 5; snap pods on Plate VI, 1; 

 cross section of snap pods are similar to Keeney's Rustless Golden Wax (PI. V, 

 18), differing principally in smaller size and more oval shape. 



jones's stringless wax. 



Listed by 38 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Breck, 1905; Ferry, 1903; Jones, 1903, 1904; 

 Thorburn, 1901, 1902. 



Description. — Plant medium in size, erect when young, generally borne down with 

 fruit-laden branches when fully mature, without runners, thick stemmed, wholly 

 green, early in season, moderate in bearing period, f.airly productive. Leaf of medium 

 size, medium green in color. Flowers white. Snap pods of uniform size, medium 

 in length, generally more or less scimiter curved, round, medium yellow, very brittle, 

 stringless, without fiber, of excellent quality, somewhat subject to anthracnose. 

 Point of pod medium in length and either straight or slightly curved. Green shell 

 pods borne equally above and below foliage, never colored or splashed, full on 

 outside between seeds, about 4| inches long, and usually containing 5 or 6 seeds very 

 crowded in pod. Dry pods hard to thrash. Dry seeds medium in size, somewhat 

 slender, roundish through cross section, truncate or rounded at ends, almost straight 

 at eye, sliver from pod occasionally attached to eye, solid white, except minute area 

 of yellow around eye. 



Comparison. — Little known or cultivated. Of same general usefulness and value 

 as Jones's Stringless Wax and sometimes hardly distinguishable from it, but careful 

 tests have shown that Golden Crown is straighter and larger podded, somewhat more 

 productive, more even and pure, and generally the better variety of the two. Also 

 similar to German Black Wax, differing principally in seed and lighter yellow pods 

 which have no tendency toward reddish tingeing at stem end of green shell pods. 



Synonyms. — Hammond's Luscious Stringless Wax, Imperial White-Seeded Wax. 



History. — Introduced in 1898 by several American seedsmen. Originated by A. N. 

 Jones, of Leroy, N. Y., who states the variety was obtained by crossing Yosemite 

 Wax with a white seedling of Ivory Pod Wax. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are very similar to those of Golden Crown Wax (PI. IV, 

 12), differing principally in being smaller than illustrations; snap' pods and cross 

 section of same are similar to Prolific Black Wax (PI. VII, 4, and PI. V, 8, respec- 

 tively). 



keeney's hustless golden wax. 



Listed by 35 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Burpee, 1901: Ferry, 1900; Keeney, 1904- 

 1906; Livingston, 1905; Thorburn, L901, 1902. 



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