March 7, 1908. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
167 
= DWARF BEAN = 
Golden Waxpod. 
Gardeners and others are so accustomed 
seeing Beans of a green colour that 
ev seldom think of them under any 
tier hue-.- There are, however, dark 
; rple and also yellow Dwarf Beans, as 
ill as Runner Beans. When boiled, 
e Waxpod Beans are much more appe- 
ing in appearance than the purple ones 
! account of their beautiful light and 
;an-looking colour. The Golden Wax- 
id Bean is a dwarf variety producing 
;ans of large size, good shape, and of a 
ear yellow like beeswax. The plants 
em equally as vigorous as those bearing 
een pods, and the latter are produced 
great quantity. They are also much 
ore tender than the green ones, and the 
ivour excellent. The accompanying 
.ustration representing this variety was 
aced at our sendee by Messrs. Smith 
and Simons, 36 to 38, West George Street, 
Glasgow. 
This old established firm is now being 
carried on under .the old title by Mr. Peter 
Drew and Mr. James H. Parker, both of 
whom have had an excellent schooling in 
good houses in different parts of the 
country. Mr. Drew was at one time con¬ 
nected with the famous house of Messrs. 
P. Lawson and Sons, Ltd., Edinburgh. 
Air. Parker was head of his department 
while serving in the firm of Messrs. R. B. 
Laird and Sons, Ltd., Edinburgh. For 
the last few years he served under a simi¬ 
lar capacity in the business of Alessrs. 
Alexander Cross and Sons, Ltd. The 
customers of the firm can take it for 
granted, therefore, that their interests will 
now be well served by these enthusiastic 
young men. 
Golden Waxpod Dwarf Bean 
Fidler and Sons. 
Pea Fidler’s New Early Marrow. 
Garden Pea 
Fidler’s New Early Marrow 
For many years our fathers in the art 
of gardening had to rest contented with 
varieties of the ordinary round white Pea 
as the first early. Within more recent 
times immense improvements have been 
effected in the garden Pea, and varieties 
of great excellence are now at the com¬ 
mand of the cultivator that are not only 
earlv, but reasonably hardy and remark¬ 
ably prolific, considering the conditions 
which they have to endure in our climate 
during the winter and early spring 
months. 
Fidler's New Early Marrow grows about 
14 in. high, and may be grown without 
stakes, as the market gardeners grow 
Peas in the fields. In gardens, how¬ 
ever, we consider that it pays the cultiva¬ 
tor to use stakes, even if they are only- 
short ones, because climbing plants of all 
sorts, including the garden Pea, grow 
much more vigorously 7 and bear a heavier 
crop if given something to support them, 
and thus kept off the ground. Where 
stakes are unobtainable, a narrow wire 
guard on each side of a line would con¬ 
stitute sufficient support. Where brooms 
are used for sweeping the walks, how¬ 
ever, there need be no difficulty in get¬ 
ting stakes of sufficient length to support 
early varieties of this tyqpe. 
