TALL EDIBLE-PODDED KIDNEY BEANS 



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and nearly round, with a black bird-shaped blotch around the 

 hilum, something like the seed of the Spread Eagle, or Dove, 

 Kidney Bean. 



The Two-coloured Italian Kidney Bean should also be 

 classed with the Prague Kidney Beans. It is a very productive, 

 tall kind, producing seeds of excellent quality for the table. 

 There is a sub- variety of it, the pods of which, immediately before 

 ripening, assume an exceeding lively uniform red colour, giving 

 the plant quite an ornamental appearance. The seeds of both 

 kinds are round, slightly egg-shaped, half white and half very pale 

 chamois-colour. 



The Mammoth Podded Horticultural Pole Bean, or Worcester 

 Mammoth, Hampden, Mugwump, Carmine Podded Pole Bean, 

 cultivated in America, is only a sub-variety of the New Zealand 

 Runner Bean, with longer and stouter pods and larger seeds. 



Two-coloured Coco Prolific Bean. Seed a long oval in 

 shape, J to f in. in length, about 5 in. broad and of the same 

 thickness. The part opposite the kilum is entirely white : the 

 hilum itself is marked with 

 a narrow dark yellow ring, 

 girdled by streaks like those 

 of the Marbled New Zealand 

 Runner and extending over 

 one-third of the whole surface. 



Tall White Predome 

 Kidney Bean. Stem about 

 4 ft. high, green, thick, and 

 twisted ; leaves of medium 

 size, rounded at the base, 

 crimped, and a rather deep 

 green colour ; flowers white, 

 changing to yellow ; pods 

 very numerous, straight, 

 fleshy, deeply indented on 

 the sides by the bulging of 

 the seeds, 3 or 4 in. long, 

 each containing six or seven 

 very white nearly round 

 seeds, which are often flat- 

 tened at the ends, and are 

 about \ in. long, J in. broad, 

 and less than in. thick. 



membrane, in this respect surpassing all other varieties of Tall- 

 growing Kidney Beans. The seeds, also, are of very good quality, 



