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DeEscRIPTIVE Notes: BusH BRANs. 
Alexander Black Waax.— Plant fifteen inches high ; foliage, light 
green; flowers, pale pink; pods usually borne singly; stem 
recurved at apex, four to four and one-half inches long, yellowish 
white, somewhat wrinkled when fit for string bean. 
Cylinder. Black Wax (Syn. Cylinder Ivory Pod).— Plant twelve 
inches high; foliage, very light green; flowers small, purple ; pods 
usually borne singly, strongly recurved, four inches long, pale 
yellow, wrinkled when string bean; beans deep black, long. 
Dwarf Carolina.— Plants ten inches high ; foliage, deep glaucous 
~ green; flowers very small, white, borne on erect pods as many as 
twelve, flat, short. 
Date Wax.— Plants fifteen inches high; foliage, light green ; 
flowers pale pink ; pods often in pairs, slightly recurved, from five 
and one-half to six inches long, smooth, very light yellow when 
string bean; beans long, slightly bowed, dun color. 
Early Golden-eyed Wax.— Height of plant fifteen inches; color 
lively green; flowers white, small; pods usually single, strongly 
recurved, four to five inches long, smooth, golden yellow; beans 
medium size, white eye splashed with dull yellow; identical with 
Yellow-eye Golden Wax. 
Hverlasting.— Plants ten inches high; foliage, dark green ; 
flowers, pale pink; pods borne singly, strongly recurved at apex, 
three to four inches long, very much wrinkled ; beans long, brown 
spotted, with dark red. . 
Flageolet Scarlet Wax.— Plant fifteen inches high ; foliage, light 
green; flowers, pink; pods borne singly, sharply recurved, five 
to six inches long, wavy, golden*yellow; beans, long, somewhat 
bowed ; dull scarlet, 
Flageolet Violet Wax.—Habit of growth same as above ; bois, 
dull violet and brown. 
Kidney Cranberry.— Plant two and a half to three feet ; should 
be bushed ; foliage, lively green; flowers, white, pink tint; pods 
borne singly, flat, very much wrinkled, five to six inches long ; 
beans, white, splashed with dull red, long and thick, 
Prolific German Wax.— Plant twelve inches high ; foliage, deep 
green ; flowers, light purple; pods usually borne singly, strongly 
recurved, three and a half to four inches long, smooth, golden 
yellow; beans, medium size, blue-black, white eye. 
