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almost triangular, long, pointed, and dark lustrous green ; flowers 

 white ; pods flat and broad, and from 4 to 6 in. long. A hardy, 

 early, and fairly productive variety, but not always maintaining 

 a strictly dwarf habit of growth. 



Dwarf Extra Early Wax or Butter Bean. — A very 

 dwarf plant, extremely early, forming and maturing its pods 

 before any other variety of Edible-podded Beans. In growth 

 it resembles the Dwarf Algerian Black-seeded Butter Bean ; 

 its pods, however, are not quite so fleshy or so yellow. The 

 seed is white, oblong, measuring about J in. in length, a 

 little less than J in. in width and in thickness ; very hand- 

 some and regular in shape, and ivory-white in colour. Its 

 chief merit is its great earliness, the pods being ready for 

 the market fully eight days earlier than those of any other 

 variety. 



White-seeded Dwarf Lyonnais Bean. — A white-seeded sport 

 of the following, the characteristics and qualities being the same. 

 The pods, 6 in. in length, contain six or seven straight, thin seeds, 

 slightly flattened. 



Long-podded Dwarf Lyonnais Bean. — Dwarf, not over 

 12 to I si in. in height; stems strong and branching; leaves 



long, broad, and lightly 

 crimped ; flowers lilac. 

 Pods very long, very 

 fleshy, almost as solid as 

 those of the Intestin Bean, 

 but much longer, more 

 pointed, and frequently 

 curved. Seed long, 

 straight, thin, slightly 

 flattened, dark chamois 

 or light brown in colour. 

 A very productive variety, 

 yielding pods of excep- 

 tional quality and beauty. 

 First grown about Lyons 

 only a few years ago, 

 and likely to gain favour 

 everywhere. 



Haricot du Bon Jar- 

 dinier. — Dwarf, bushy, 

 with short, branching 

 stems ; dark green, rather 

 small, and finely crimped leaves ; flowers rosy lilac. Pods of 

 medium size, not very long, of the thickness of the little finger, 

 dark green, and free from parchment ; seed yellow, cylindrical. 



Long-podded Dwarf Lyons Bean. 



