10 D. M. FERRY & CO’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
CHALLENGE DWARF BLACK WAX, EXTRA EARLY.~— While the experience of another year has only strength- 
ened our opinion of this grand bean, the enormous demand for it by our customers, which exhausted our stock before the sea- 
son was over, is the sure index to the fact that it meets a popular demand and has all the sterling qualities we claim for it. 
The feature that impresses one most forcibly when comparing this bean, as an extra early sort, with other varieties growing 
beside it, is that while one car find an occasional very early pod on a 
plant here and there of other kinds, all the plants of the Challenge will 
give a full picking of well matured pods. This habit of ripening a large 
proportion of the crop earlier than other kinds, is of inestimable worth to 
market gardeners and all who depend on being first in the market for 
the best prices. The plants are fully as vigorous as the Prolific German 
Wax and in habit of growth and general appearance resemble it very 
much. They are not quite so large and are a little more upright, however, 
and the leaflets are a little larger and coarser and are darker green: pods 
fully as large and of as good color, but are not quite so much curved and 
are flatter, though of excellent flavor, while the dry bean is longer, more 
curved and flatter, though jet black. Owing to its extreme earliness 
there is no variety of Wax Bean better to plant as a catch crop for 
autumn use following Early Peas, etc. 
BLACK-EYED WAX.—Very early. Vines medium size, erect, 
bearing the pods near the center. Leaves large, thin, quite dark green 
in color. Pods long, straight, proportionately 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 snap and as shell beaus. 
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. 
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DETROIT WAX. — Very 
hardy. Plants erect, bearing 
their pods near the centre, 
often throwing them above G 
the foliage. Very 'produc- / - 
tive; leaves large, dark 
green; blossoms small, white; 
pods straight. fiat, but thick 
to edge; distinctly broader 
than the Golden Wax. They 
do not turn to wax color so 
early, but when well grown 
and fit for use they are of a 
beautiful golden Wax color 
and of the finest texture, 
We think this variety the 
least liable to rust of any 
and the fact that other seeds- 
men offer it under other yi 
names as absolutely  rust- y 
proof, is evidence that they Ve 
op s 
have found it as 
nearly rust proof as 
any wax bean can 
be. The fact that 
when picked along 
with Golden Wax 
and other varieties, 
it keeps bright and 
crisp long after 
these are wilted 
and unsalable, 
makes it one of the 
best for shipping 
long distances, It 
is also one of the 
very best green 
shelled beans, and 
excellent dry, being 
very much like the 
White Marrow 
when baked. Dry 
beans the shape of 
the White Marrow, 
white with large 
patch of chocolate 
brown about the 
eye. 
D. M. FERRY 
& CO’S GOLDEN 
WAX. — This 
bean, introduced by us in 1876, has long been the stand- 
ard wax variety for general use, and while many varie- 
ties 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 rear as not possessing as many 
good qualities in as high degree. Vines medium size, 
erect, moderately spreading, hardy and productive, with 
small, smooth leaves, and small, white blossoms. Pods. 
long, nearly straight, broad, flat, golden yellow, very 
fleshy and wax-like, with short, fleshy. green point, cook- 
ing quickly as snaps, and shelling well when green, and 
of the highest quality inboth conditions. Beans medium 
size, oval, white, more or less covered with two shades of 
purplish-red. Our stock of this variety is unsurpassed. 
WARDWELL’S KIDNEY WAX.—The vines of 
this variety are very large, strong growing and vigor- 
ous, yielding a large crop of long, nearly straight, hand- 
some, very white and wax-like pods. They are of good 
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quality and on this account, as well as their beauty of form and color, are easily sold, even when most sorts are a drug. They 
ripen about with the Golden Wax. The dry beans are large, kidney shaped, white, with dark markings about the eye. 
Market gardeners find this a profitable variety owing to the large size and handsome color of the pods. 
