ISSUE 6, BEANS, Part 4: Golden Wax

The yellow snap bean that generated $gold$

Golden Wax Bean

No wax podded bush bean has proved more popular in the United States since the Civil War.  One of the earliest varieties in cultivation of the wax bean, the Golden was introduced by seedsman D. M. Ferry in 1876 as a snap bean.  Only 11 years before, the first of the wax beans, the Black Wax, was grown from seed imported from Germany, intr…