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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Dwarf Algerian Black-seeded Butter Bean.— An established 



dwarf varietv of the Agerian Wax or Butter Bean, with rather 



large yellow - stalked 



Disoin Dwarf Wax Bean. 



or 



bent, 



leaves, the colour of 

 which varies, on the 

 same plant, from dark 

 to light green. Flowers 

 lilac ; pods very fleshy 

 and butter-colour; seeds 

 black, egg-shaped, a 

 little sm.aller than those 

 of the Tall -growing 

 variety. This is an early 

 kind, very productive, 

 and of excellent quality, 

 and is one of the most 

 extensively grown varie- 

 ties of Kidney Beans. 

 It has the precious 

 peculiarity that the pods 

 thus escaping contact with 



on maturity become curved 

 the soil. 



The Black Wax or Butter Bean is an early dwarf, v/ith 

 pale gray-green foliage and black seed. It may be considered 

 as identical with the Dwarf Algerian Black-seeded Bean. 



The Prolific German Wax or Butter Bean, cultivated in the 

 United States, differs 

 only from the Dwarf 

 Algerian in having the 

 pods slightly longer, 

 more curving and 

 more swollen. 



Long- podded 

 D war f Al ge ria n 

 Butter Bean. — This 

 is to be a sub-variet\- 

 of the Dwarf Algerian 

 Butter Bean, differing 

 in its longer pods, 

 and also the shape of 

 its seeds, which, in- 

 stead of being egg- 

 shaped, are almost 

 cylindrical, nearly 



Dwarf Algerian Black-seeded Butter Bean 

 natural size). 



f m. 

 very 



long 

 free 



and 

 from 



over 



m. 



broad and thick. The pods 

 membrane, and are more slender and 



are 



less 



