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AMERICAN VARIETIES OF GARDEN BEANS. 



Description. — Vine of large growth, of good climbing habit, moderately branched, 

 thick stemmed, yellowish green at stems, early-intermediate in season, productive, 

 of long to moderate bearing period. Leaf large, light green. Flowers white. Snap 

 pods somewhat varying in size, very long, fairly straight, very flat, of very smooth sur- 

 face, clear solid whitish yellow, very brittle, stringy, of inappreciable fiber, of good 

 quality, fairly free from anthracnose. Point of pod long and slightly curved. Green 

 shell pods never colored or splashed except for black lines along dorsal and ventral 

 sutures, much depressed on outside between seeds, about 1\ inches long, and usually 

 containing 8 seeds fairly separated in pod. Dry pods easy to thrash. Dry seeds large- 

 medium, proportionally short, flattish through cross section, truncate or rounded at 

 ends, generally straight at eye, generally regular in shape, sometimes bent or bulging 

 out in places, solid white. 



Comparison. — A well-known standard wax variety. More extensively grown than 

 any of the wax pole sorts but not nearly so largely cultivated as the standard green- 

 podded pole varieties. When stocks are pure, it is, next to Golden Carmine-Podded 

 Horticultural, the best of the wax pole sorts as snaps and green shell beans for home 

 or market use. Most stocks of present day are, however, badly mixed and deteriorated, 

 and for this reason it is not safe to recommend the variety unless the quality of the 

 stock is known. The impure stocks produce many half-greenish, unattractive, under- 

 sized pods, some being almost round in shape, while the pure type makes a fine exhibi- 

 tion or show variety, its immense, beautiful, yellow pods attracting even more atten- 

 tion than those of Kentucky Wonder Wax, Sunshine Wax, or Landreth's Pole. More 

 like Sunshine Wax than any other pole variety, the pods being hardly distinguishable 

 from that sort except for their greater length, width, thickness, and solid yellow color 

 which is almost without any reddish tinge whatever. Similar also to Kentucky 

 Wonder Wax and Landreth's Pole. 



Synonym. — Early Golden Cluster Wax Pole. 



History.— Introduced in 1886 by Henry A. Dreer as Dreer's Early Golden Cluster 

 Wax Pole and described as coming from stock of John Kramer, of Doylestown, Pa., 

 who is said to have obtained the" seed from Germany. 



Illustrations. — Dry seeds are illustrated on Plate IV, 18; cross section of snap pod 

 on Plate V, 27; snap pods are similar to Kentucky Wonder Wax Pole (PL XVI, 3), 

 differing principally in flatter shape. 



INDIAN CHIEF WAX POLE. 



Listed by 26 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Farquhar, 1905; Fish, 1905. 



Description. — Vine of large growth, of poor climbing habit when young, but doing 

 well when once started, much branched, thick stemmed, generally more or less red- 

 dish tinged at stems, late, heavily productive, of long bearing period. Leaf of medium 

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

 in length, much curved, flat, becoming round at green shell stage, of a rich, solid yellow 

 color, of very smooth surface, brittle, stringless, without fiber, of good quality, fairly 

 free from anthracnose. Point of pod short and fairly straight. Green shell pods some- 

 what reddish tinged, generally faintly purplish splashed when very old, full on outside 

 between beans, about 5| inches long, and usually containing 7 or 8 seeds very crowded 

 in pod. Dry pods fairly easy to thrash. Dry seeds of medium size, somewhat longer 

 than wide, roundish oval through cross section, rounded or truncate at ends, rounded 

 or full at eye, solid deep bluish black in color. 



Comparison. — A well-known wax sort but not much planted at present time. Next 

 to Mont d'Or Wax it is the best late wax pole variety and excellent as snaps for either 

 home or market. Probably too late in season to be generally popular and evidently 

 largely succeeded by the earlier, larger, more handsome pods of Golden Cluster Wax, 



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