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21. GoLpDEN BuTTteR Wax. 
A low bush bean with no twining habit, slightly branched, foliage 
not very abundant, leaflets medium size, broadly ovate inclining to 
triangular, taper pointed. Flowers purplish. Pods, when fully de- 
veloped, slightly bent, pale yellow, slightly transparent so that the 
black color of the beans is manifest; when ripe much shrunken and 
wrinkled, adhering closely to the beans, dark dun yellow, 3 1-2 to 
4-1-2 inches long, containing about three beans. Beans oblong, kid- 
ney-form, almost cylindrical, occasionally slightly compressed at the 
ends, jet black, shining. Average size of ten beans 1-2 inch long, 1-4 
inch wide, 7-32 inch thick. These may be distinguished from the two 
pea ne by the kidney shape and by their still greater proportionate 
ength. 
22. *DWARF GOLDEN WAX. 
Syn. York Dwarf Wax (Gregory). 
A bush bean of rather stocky habit and no indication of runners, not 
much branched, foliage not very abundant. Leaves dark green, quite 
curly, leaflets rather large, broadly ovate, rather short pointed. Flowers 
creamy white. Pods, when fully developed, light yellow with purple 
markings, slightly bent, swollen by the beans, tipped with a short and 
slender straight or curved point, when ripe slightly wrinkled, dark dun 
yellow, 3 3-4 to 41-2 inches long, containing three to four beans, 
Fully developed beans pale rose color with white streaks and spots. 
Ripe beans oblong, not compressed at the ends, very slightly flattened 
sidewise, eye plane or very slightly sunken, the half about the eye 
mottled with dull purple, the rest white. Average size of ten beans 
15-32 inch long, 9-32 inch broad, 1-4 inch thick. These beans are 
said to have been introduced into this country by Gregory in 1871 
under the name of York Dwarf Wax. 
93, HARLY CHINA. 
Syn. China, Red-eyed China (Burr), Red Eye (Gregory), China 
Red Hye (Landreth), Early China Red Eye (Ferry), Chinese Date 
Bean (Martens), Fagiuoli uani della China (Savi before 1822). Ac- 
cording to Martens they are called by the following names in various 
places: In the Island Bourbon, Haricot Marbre; in Canada, Dwarf 
Karly Canada; in Turin, Venice, Paris, Lausanne and Stuttgart, 
Sugar-asparagus-bush bean ; in Bopnfigen Cuckoo bean ; in Bamberg, 
Red Speckled Spring bean ; in Lubbenau, Red Speckled bush bean ; 
in Dresden and GOttingen, Early English Dwarf bean ; and in Chris- 
tiana, Harly Hagle bush bean, Haricot Chimois and China Dwarf-bean. 
It is classed by Martens under Phaseolus oblongus alboruber, Savi. 
The Early China is a vigorous, not twining, moderately branched 
bush bean, with abundant foliage. Leaves dark green, somewhat curly, 
leaflets of, medium size, broadly ovate, taper pointed. Flowers white. 
Pods, when fully developed, light greenish yellow, straight or nearly 
so, not much swollen by the beans, tipped with a long, moderately stiff 
straight point; when ripe slightly bent, scarcely swollen by the beans, 
parchment like, light dun color, four and five inches long, containing 
from two to three beans. Fully developed beans white with veiny 
