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which should be filled to the surface with leaves or 
coarse litter, which should be removed in the spring. 
Conover’s Colossal.—A mammoth sort, frequently 
sending up fifteen to thirty sprouts from one to one and 
a half inches in diameter from a single plant, and 
spreading less than most sorts. Color deep green; 
quality good. 
Giant.—An old and popular variety, producing green 
or purple shoots, according to the soil it is grown in. 
Very hardy, but not so large, or the plants as compact 
as the last. 
from planting in drills about three feet apart and the 
plants two to eight inches apart in the row. Up to the 
time of blossoming they should be frequently culti¬ 
vated, but this should never be done when the ground 
or plants are wet with rain or dew, as it would be sure 
to injure them; nor should they be disturbed after they 
commence to bloom, as it would prevent their setting 
well. 
In the following descriptions the varieties arc placed 
about in the order of ripening, and it is assumed that 
they are grown on rich, light soil, as different soils pro- 
SCARLET 
FLAGEOLET 
WAX 
WARDWELLS D.M.FERRY & C0‘5 BLACK EYED 
KIDNEY WAX DETROIT . WAX 
. v , WAX 
BEHNS. 
DWARF, BUSH OR SNAP. 
Fr., Haricot. Ger., Bohne. 
Under this name are classed all the low growing sorts, 
called in different catalogues Busily Bunch , Snap, 
Stringy or Dwarf Beans. 
Cuiture. — No crop responds more readily to good 
soil and cultivation than this; that best adapted to them 
being a light, rich, well drained loam, which was 
manured for the previous crop. If too rank manure is 
used it is apt to make them grow too much to vine. 
They are all extremely sensitive to frost and wet, and 
it is useless to plant them before the ground has be¬ 
come warm and light. The largest return will result 
duce quite a variation in vines, pods and beans, and it 
is useless to expect good results from the finer garden 
sorts on poor or cold and wet soils. From one pint to 
two quarts will be sufficient to furnish a supply for an 
ordinary family, and varieties should be selected so as 
to give a succession both of string and of green shelled 
beans. 
Black-Eyed Wax. —The earliest wax bean we have 
tested. Vines medium size, erect, bearing its 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 beans. Dry 
beans, medium size, long, round, white, with black spot 
