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AMERICAN VARIETIES OF GARDEN BEANS. 



and lighter yellow in color, and vines much smaller and more bushy than Challenge 

 Black "Wax. Differs from Red Valentine principally in color, stringlessness, and 

 smaller size of pods, in well-rounded bushy vine, and wide instead of narrow leaflets, 

 while seeds of the two varieties are of about same size and color. 

 Synonym. — Miller's Early Golden Stringless Wax. 



History. — Introduced in 1885 by J. M. Thorburn & Co., who write the bean origi- 

 nated with T. V. Maxon, of Jefferson County, N. Y., from a sport found in Red Valen- 

 tine. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are similar to Red Valentine (PI. I, 13); snap pods and 

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

 respectively), differing principally in being smaller in size, less round in shape, lighter 

 yellow in color, and with seed of different color. 



WARD WELL'S KIDNEY WAX. 



Listed by 165 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Buckbee, 1897; Buist, 1905; Burpee, 1901; 

 Denison, 1903; Ferry, 1899, 1900; Keeney, 1904-1906; May, 1897; Morse, 1906; Rogers, 

 1904, 1906; Thorburn, 1901, 1902; Wood, 1897. 



Description. — Plant large-medium, fairly erect, thick stemmed, without runners, 

 wholly green, early-intermediate in season, long to moderate in bearing period, moder- 

 ately productive. Leaf large, dark green, of slightly rough surface. Flowers white. 

 Snap pods uniform in size, long, generally turned back at stem end, flat, medium yel- 

 low, somewhat brittle, stringless, of little fiber, of good quality, much subject to 

 anthracnose. Point of pod short and very straight. Green shell pods borne equally 

 above and below foliage, never colored or splashed, full on outside between seeds, 

 about 5 J inches long, and usually containing 5 or 6 seeds crowded in pod. Dry pods 

 fairly easy to thrash. Dry seeds large-medium, proportionally long, oval through 

 cross section, rounded or truncate at ends, flat or incurved at eye, white with mottling- 

 of pansy violet and maize yellow around eye and ends, generally covering about one- 

 fourth of bean. 



Comparison.— One of the three most largely grown wax varieties and though largely 

 planted in all parts'of the country and a good all-round sort which is as well adapted for 

 home use as for market it is not generally as free from disease or as certain a cropper as 

 Henderson's Market, Currie's Rustproof, or Horticultural Wax, but when conditions 

 are just right it is one of the most showy and productive of all the wax beans. Peculiar 

 for its very heavy growth, very small pod point, and for a portion of its pods bending 

 backward at stem end. Most like Horticultural Wax and Henderson's Market Wax, 

 but of the common wax varieties it most resembles Golden Wax, differing principally 

 in seed, in much larger size, in peculiar curvature of pod, in exceeding]y small pod 

 point, in later season, and in larger growth of vine. 



Synonym. — Milli ken's Wax. 



History. — Introduced about 1885 by several American seedsmen and originated by a 

 Mr. Wardwell, of Jefferson County, N. Y. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are shown on Plate II, 17; snap pods on Plate X, 3; 

 while cross sections of snap pods are somewhat flatter and larger than Currie's Rust- 

 proof (PL V, 10). 



YOSEMITE WAX. 



Listed by 54 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Burpee, 1900, 1901; Henderson, 1905; 

 Keeney, 1904; Thorburn, 1897, 1902. 



Description. — Plant large, without runners, generally with many drooping or heavy 

 spreading branches, thick stemmed, green throughout, late-intermediate in season, 

 long in bearing period, moderately productive. Leaf large, light green, widTe across 



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