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donated to SSE in 1981 by John Withee of the Wanigan Associates. Withee received the variety from Peter Ruppell (QUE RU P), who purchased it from Thompson & Morgan in the late 1960s. A selection from the 'Princess of Artois' bean originally developed by the Lethridge Research Centre in Alberta, Canada and released in 1968 as an early maturing shelling bean