DWARF EDIBLE-PODDED KIDNEY BEANS 89 



Oval Yellow China, or Robin's Egg, Kidney Bean 

 (^ natural size). 



widely cultivated in different parts of the world, and is to be met 

 \vith almost everywhere in the colonies and America, under the 



same name and exhibiting 

 the same characteristics. 



Besides those already 

 described, there are many 

 other varieties of Dwarf 

 Edible - podded Kidney 

 Beans in cultivation, of 

 which we shall only 

 mention the following: 

 Variegated White- 

 podded Butter Bean. 

 Seed variegated, straight, 

 and almost cylindrical in 

 shape, creamy white with 

 spots and marblings of a 

 wine-lees red or red-violet 

 colour. This variety is 

 dwarf and rather tender. The American variety Early Valentine 

 may be considered identical with it. 



Two-coloured China Dwarf Bean. This variety does not 

 seem to be very much grown, and yet it is known almost everywhere. 

 It is rather tall and very branching, with white flowers. The pods 

 are of medium size, pretty free from membrane, turning white when 

 ripe, and each containing five or six straight, cylindrical seeds, often 

 square at the ends, and deeply striped with red around the hilum to 

 the extent of half the surface of the seed, while the other half is 

 entirely white. A rather productive and very early kind. 



Dwarf White Malmaison Kidney Bean. A productive and 

 moderately early variety, with fine fleshy, bulging pods, which are 

 usually straight. Seed rather long, oval, and white. 



Dwarf Aix Kidney Bean. A variety with small round rosy 

 white seeds. Pods yellow, and rather short, but free from 

 membrane. 



Predome Flesh-coloured Wax Bean. A dwarf, much- 

 branching variety ; pods numerous, short, straight, green ; seed 

 rosy, egg-shaped. 



Princess Dwarf Kidney Bean. This is not a very vigorous 

 kind, and its crimped and rounded leaves are very liable to disease, 

 arising either from the attacks of insects or from minute fungus 

 growths It is also rather late. The pods are short and curved, 

 free from membrane, and deep green. The remark made upon the 

 Dwarf Predome is also applicable to this variety ; however, as 

 the ordinary variety of the Princess attains a tolerable height, it 

 may sometimes be advantageous to have a dwarf form of it. 



