March 2, 1907. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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moderate size are required, these may be 
obtained bv leaving the larger number of 
fruits in a bunch. The plant is of vigor¬ 
ous growth, with short-jointed stems, so 
that the bunches of fruit are brought close 
together, and no space is wasted when, the 
variety is grown under glass. In the 
latter case the stems attain considerable 
height and blossom continues to be pro¬ 
duced as- the summer advances. The 
flowers set freely, thus making sure of a 
splendid crop. 
Under glass the variety may either be 
grown in pots, tubs, or boxes, according to 
the convenience of the grower, or they 
mav be planted out in the body of the 
house according to the custom of market 
^rowers. For indoor culture seeds may 
be sown at once. Indeed, they might 
have been sown in January for the first 
crop. For out door culture March wouid 
be early enough to sow. 
DWARF 
BARR’S GOLDEN WAX POD. 
The larger number of Dwarf or French 
Beans which find favour in this country 
have light green pods. A few of the 
popular varieties may be spotted or 
streaked with purple. There are also 
other varieties having dark purple pods, 
which are more grown in France than in 
this country. Our neighbours also grow 
Wax Pod Beans more frequently than we 
do. Several of this latter class might well 
be grown in this country, as they are 
tender and quite of a different hue from 
those ordinarily grown. Usually, culti¬ 
vators look upon green as the best colour 
for vegetables, but some of the others 
make tender and delicate eating. 
To illustrate this sample of the group 
known as Wax Pod Beans, we have se¬ 
lected a very choice variety named Barr’s 
Golden Walt Pod. The whole pod is, of 
course, eaten after being cooked in the 
same way as the ordinary green ones. 
The pods are of handsome size, ranging 
from 6 in. to 8 in. in length, while they 
are smooth skinned and handsome in out- 
Copyright, Barr and Sons. 
Barr’s Golden Wax Pod Dwarf Butter Bean. 
line, as shown by the illustration kindly 
placed at our disposal by Messrs. Barr and 
Sons, King Street, Covent Garden. Like 
all the other Wax Pod Beans, this one 
is of uniform pale yellow. When cooked 
the pods are tender and delicate, but they 
must, of course, be gathered in their 
prime like any other Dwarf Bean. The 
stems grow about 15 in. high, and bear a 
heavy crop of these pods. It is also 
early rather than a late variety. 
Some time ago an exhibit of this hand¬ 
some Bean was exhibited at a meeting of 
the R.H.S., when it was accorded an 
Award of Merit. Owners of gardens like 
a vegetable of a pale colour by way of 
variety, and that is furnished in lieu of 
nothing else by the tubers of the Jeru¬ 
salem Artichoke. This Wax Pod Bean 
would, however, be entirely different in 
flavour and altogether a more excellent 
vegetable than the Jerusalem Artichoke. 
Batter Bear?. 
nir*~e Cucumber, Toogood’s Success. 
[.See Page 146. Too good and Sons. 
