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Extra Early Refugee is bushier and earlier than the type, 

 and the foliage is paler green. 



Sir Joseph Paxton. A small-sized, very early, dwarf kind, 

 with rather short pods. The seed is almost exactly like that of the 

 Yellow Hundredfold, but is of a deeper, and nearly brown, colour. 



Williams's New Early. A very early and rather productive kind, 

 the seeds and pods of which are marbled with violet. This colouring 

 of the pods, added to their flat shape, lessens their value for table use. 



Yellow Canterbury. A dwarf variety, with small yellow bulg- 

 ing, straight seeds, very much resembling the Yellow Hundredfold. 



EDIBLE-PODDED KIDNEY BEANS 



White Tall King of the Skinless Beans. 



French, Haricots sans parchemin. 

 German, Zucker-, oder Brech-, 

 Bohnen. Danish, Snitte- 

 bonnen. Italian, Fagiuoli 

 mangia tutto. 



I. TALL-GROWING 

 VARIETIES 



Tall White Algerian 

 Wax or Butter Bean. 

 A rather vigorous kind, 

 about 6J ft. high, very 

 remarkable for the light 

 or yellow tint of its 

 leaves, which renders it 

 conspicuous at a distance. 

 Stems wax - yellow or 

 white, as are also the 

 leaf-stalks; flowers white; 

 pods long and slender, 

 more or less curved, 

 each containing, with 

 some distance between 

 them, five or six white 

 egg - shaped, somewhat 

 elongated seeds over Jin. 

 long. An Edible-podded 

 variety, it has, besides, 

 this advantage that its 

 dried seeds can be sent 

 to table. 



White Tall King 

 of the Skinless Beans 

 (Haricot Roi des Mange- 

 tout}. A very vigorous- 



