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The plants of the White Marrow are 12 to 16 

 inches high, strictly dwarf, vigorous, much branched, 

 and compact. Leaflets are 3 to 35^ inches long and 

 2 to 2j4 inches broad, elongated, taper pointed and 

 much wrinkled. Pods are green, 3 to 5 inches long; 

 the seed is white, uniformly oblong, abruptly 

 rounding at the ends, very smooth and glossy; an 

 early and quite productive variety. The plant of the 

 White Kidney is strictly dwarf, 12 to 15 inches high 

 and bushy; leaflets light green, 3 to 3^ inches long, 



FIG. 7 — STRIXGLESS GREEN POD BEA.Wt. 



2/^ to 3 inches broad, scarcely wrinkled, quite thick 

 and stiflF; blossoms white; pods are green, 3 to 5 

 inches long; spur stout and nearly straight; seed is 

 white and pale yellow about the hilum ; a very old 

 and reasonably productive variety. 



Relative to standard commercial sorts. Prof. E. J. 

 Wickson of the University of California writes : "In 

 California there is only one bean grown on a com- 

 mercial scale. This is known as a pea bean. It is a 

 small, white, roundish bean which has been grown in 

 California for the past 50 years. It has a very thin, 

 transparent skin which sloughs off easily in cooking. 

 As a commercial crop, however, it has been largely 



