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D. M. FERRY & GO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



Wax. 



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resemble them. They are not quite so large and are a little more upright, and the leaflets are a little larger and coarser 

 a,nd are darker green; pods fully as large and of as good color, but are not quite so much curved and are flatter, though 

 stringless and of excellent flavor. The dry bean is jet black, longer, more curved and flatter than the Prolific German Wax. 

 Owing to its extreme earliness there is no variety of Wax Bean better to 

 plant in the autumn as a catch crop following Early Peas, etc. 



BLACK=EVED WAX. — Vines medium size, erect, bearing the pods near 

 the center. Leaves large, thin, dark green. Pods long, straight, proportion- 

 a.tely narrow, and rounder than those of the Golden Wax, and of a lighter 

 -color, with a medium length light green point. They cook quickly, both as 

 «nap and as shell beans. Dry beans, medium size, long, cylindrical, white, 

 with black spot around the eye. As early as the Golden Wax, of very good 

 ■quality and in some localities esteemed highly as a first early variety, but 

 we think it inferior in quality and earliness to the Challenge Black Wax. 



D. M. FERRY & COS DETROIT WAX.— Very hardy. The very pro- 

 ductive erect growing plants, bear their pods very near the center of the 

 -vine, but occasionally throw a stem above the leaves. Leaves large, dark 

 green; blossoms small, white; pods straight, flat, but thick to edge: distinctly 

 laroader than the Golden Wax. They are frequently greenish-yellow when /y, 

 young, but when well grown and fit for use they are of a beautiful golden ^/, 



wax color and of good quality. We think this variety the least hable to 

 rust of any and the fact that other seedsmen offer it under other names 

 .as absolutely rust-proof, is evidence that they have found it as nearly 

 rust proof as any wax bean can be. When picked along with Golden 

 Wax and other varieties, it keeps bright and crisp long after these are 

 -wilted and unsalable, making it one of the best for shipping long dis- 

 tances. It is also one of 

 the very best green 

 shelled beans, and ex- 

 cellent dry, being very 

 much like the White 

 Marrow when baked. 

 Dry beans the shape of 

 the White Marrow, white 

 with large patch of cho- 

 colate brown about the 

 -eye. 



D. M. FERRY & 

 GO'S GOLDEN WAX. 

 —This bean, introduced 

 "by us in 1873, has long 

 been and still continues 

 the standard wax variety 

 for general use, and while 

 many varieties have been 

 introduced claiming to be 

 :superior in some respects 

 and aiming to replace it, 

 they have all sooner or 

 later been forced to the 

 Tear as not possessing as 

 jnany good qualities in as 



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high degree. Vines med- 

 ium size, erect, moder- 

 ately spreading, hardy 

 and productive, with 

 small, smooth leaves, and 

 small, white blossoms. 

 Pods are long, nearly 

 straight, broad, flat, gold- 

 en yellow, very fleshy and 



wax-like, with short, fleshy, green point, cooking quickly 

 as snaps, shelling well when green, and of the highest 

 quality in both conditions. Beans medium size, oval, 

 white, more or less covered with two shades of purplish- 

 red. Our stock of this variety is unsurpassed. 



IMPROVED GOLDEN WAX.— We have secured 

 from a great many sources beans under this name and 

 have given them extensive and careful trials, not only by 

 sample, but in field culture. We have found none 



•equal in general good qualities to our original Golden Wax, but if any of our readers prefer the Improved Golden Wax, we 



•can give them stock grown by ourselves equal to any. 



