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The following are of American origin : — 



Crystal Wax White Bean. — Dwarf, but usually running at 

 the top. Pods short and white, almost transparent ; seeds white 

 and oblong. 



Detroit Wax or Butter Bean is closely related to the following 

 one, the only difference being that its seed, likewise white, is 

 streaked with gray about the hilum. 



Golden-eyed Wax or Butter Bean. — A very early Bean, the 

 pods yellow, large, and abundant. Seed white, short, and strongly 

 marked with orange about the umbilicus. 



Golden Wax Bean. — A pretty and productive variety, early, 

 with pods free from parchment, and pale yellow. Seed white, 

 partly streaked with red, almost the same as the Early China Bean. 



Improved Early Red Valentine Bean. — A good summer 

 Bean, especially if gathered when green. Pods fleshy. Seed 

 resembles that of Blood Speckled Bean. 



Iron-pod Wax Bean. — Not a reliably dwarf kind, nor very 

 productive. Pods free from membrane, white, tinged or slightly 

 striped with violet ; seeds white. 



New Golden Wax Bean. — A fine, productive, and early kind. 

 Pods free from membrane, and pale yellow ; seeds white, partly 

 marbled with deep red, almost like those of the Two-coloured 

 China Kidney Bean. This is a good variety. 



Rachel Dwarf Bean. — Dwarf, productive, with thick bulging 

 pods ; seed oblong, chamois-coloured, blotched white at one end. 



Valentine Wax Bean. — A sub-variety of the foregoing with 

 yellow pods. 



Wardwell's Kidney Wax Bean. — Dwarf, free from parchment, 

 fairly early, with pods long, yellow, slightly curved, rather flat, and 

 larger than in the Flageolet Wax Canterbury. Seed long, white, 

 with a large violet stain on the umbilicus. 



White Wax Bean. — Allied to the Dwarf White-seeded Wax 

 Bean, but more leafy, later, and with flatter pods. 



Ward's Centenary Bean. — A productive light green variety, 

 with yellow, short, broad pods. Seed the same as that of the 

 Two-coloured Italian Bean — that is to say, like the Prague Bean. 



SCARLET RUNNER BEANS 



Phaseolus multifiorus, Willd. 



French^ Haricot d'Espagne. German, Arabische Bohne. Dutch, Turksche boon. 

 Italian, Fagiuolo di Spagna. 



Native of South America. — Naturally a perennial, but cultivated 

 as an annual. — These plants, while extremely valuable as vegetables, 

 are esteemed as ornamental climbers, on account of their rapid 

 growth and the abundance of their flowers. 



