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AMERICAN VARIETIES OF GARDEN BEANS. 



McKinley Refugee. (Listed by 1 seedsman.) A name sometimes applied to Golden 

 Refugee. 



Madagascar Pole. (Listed by 1 seedsman. Seeds tested: Watkins, 1905.) Sama 

 ' as Dolichos lablab of botanists and Hyacinth bean of seedsmen. Neither pods nor 

 seeds are edible, and although catalogued by above seedsman with table varieties 

 of beans, the species is purely ornamental and usually recommended by seedsmen 

 merely as a desirable ornamental climber. 



Mammoth Bush Lima. (Listed by 1 seedsman. Seeds tested: Glass, 1906.) 

 Same as Burpee's Bush Lima. 



Mammoth Horticultural Pole. (Listed by 19 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Ferry, 

 1900, 1905; Fish, 1904; Lompoc, 1905; McClure, 1904.) Same as Worcester Mam- 

 moth Pole. Named a few years after the introduction of that variety in 1895. 



Mammoth Red German Wax. Listed only by William Rennie Company and 

 described by them to be same as Giant Wax, more commonly known as Scarlet 

 Flageolet Wax. 



Mammoth Stringless Green Pod. A name sometimes applied to Giant Stringless 

 Green Pod. 



Marblehead Horticultural Bush. (See p. 76.) 



Marrow Pea Field Bean. (Listed by 6 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Ferry, 1902, 

 1905; Johnson & Stokes, 1897.) Same as Navy Pea. 



Maryland White Pole. (Listed by 1 seedsman. Seeds tested: Griffith & Turner, 

 1902, 1905.) Same as Lazy Wife Pole. Introduced in 1896 by Griffith & Turner. 



Matchless Green Pod. (Listed by 1 seedsman. S6eds tested: McKenzie, 1905.) 

 Same as Burpee's Stringless Green Pod. Introduced in 1902 by A. E. McKenzie 

 <& Co. as McKenzie's Matchless Green Pod. 



Maule's Butter Wax. (See p. 104.) 



Maule's Nameless Wax of 1906. (See p. 105.) 



May Queen. (Listed by 1 seedsman.- Seeds tested: J. Bolgiano, 1905.) Same as 

 Extra Early Refugee. Introduced in 1905 by J. Bolgiano & Son, who write the 

 seed came from Virginia. 



May's Champion Pole. (Listed by 1 seedsman. Seeds tested: May, 1905, 1906.) 

 Same as Large White Pole Lima. Introduced by L. L. May & Co., by whom it has 

 been listed for at least twelve years. 



Medium Navy Field Bean. A name sometimes applied to Day's Leafless Medium. 



Mexican Bush Lima. (Listed by 1 seedsman. Seeds tested: Pierce, 1905.) Same 

 as Barteldes'e Bush Lima. A recent introduction of several Colorado seedsmen. 



Mexican Pinto Field Bean. (Listed by 1 seedsman. Seeds tested: Pierce, 1906.) 

 A very late, large-growing field bean largely planted in Colorado and California, but 

 unknown in the North, Central, or Eastern States. Probably too late for growing as 

 far north as Michigan and New York. 



Mexican Tree Field Bean. (Listed by 4 seedsmen. Seeds tested: Livingston, 

 1898, Thorburn, 1897.) A name sometimes applied to Prolific Tree. Apparently 

 first listed about twenty-five years ago and known at that time as White Branching 

 Sugar. 



Michell's Giant Pole Lima. (Listed by 1 seedsman. Seeds tested: Mich ell, 1905, 

 1906.) Department trials were too incomplete for describing this type fully, but it 

 is evidently a large-podded, large-seeded selection of the Salem Mammoth or some 

 other similar large-seeded variety. Introduced in 1905 by Henry F. Michell, who 

 states it to be a selection made by a New Jersey grower. 



Midsummer Wax. (Listed by 1 seedsman. Seeds tested: Salzer, 1905.) Same as 

 Scarlet Flageolet Wax. Introduced in 1896 by John A. Salzer Seed Company. 



Miller's Early Golden Stringless Wax. (Listed by 1 seedsman. Seeds tested: 

 Moore & Simon, 1904, 1905.) Same as Valentine Wax. Introduced in 1904 by 

 Moore & Simon, who write the seed came from Jas. R. Shallcross, Middletown, Del., 

 who obtained the seed from a Mr. Miller. 



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