ASPARAGUS BEAN 



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is similar to that which is employed in the case of late varieties 

 of Tall Kidney Beans. A good warm position is desirable, the 

 best being one against a wall. The green pods are used in the 

 same way as Kidney Beans. 



Long Tonkin Asparagus Bean. A remarkably eany variety, 

 producing in the open 

 ground, in the vicinity 

 of Paris, as early as 

 July or August, long, 

 thin, very tender, and 

 fleshy pods. The seed 

 is rather small for use 

 as a vegetable by itself: 

 it is yellow-white, with 

 a black ring around the 

 hilum ; it measures less 

 than J in. in length, 

 and a little less still in 

 breadth and thickness. 



Very Early Long- 

 pod Asparagus Bean. 

 A sub-variety of the 

 Cuban Asparagus Bean; 

 like the latter, very 

 vigorous in growth and 

 productive, but distin- 

 guished from it by its 

 very great earliness, 

 which allows it to mature 

 its seed in temperate 

 climates. The seed is 

 small, chocolate-brown, 

 with a white eye sur- 

 rounded by a black 

 ring, and measures a 

 little over i in. in length 

 and about ^ in. in 

 breadth. Ripens in the 

 climate of Paris. 



Giant Extra Early Giant Extra Early Asparagus Bean. 



Asparagus Bean. Distinguished from the preceding ones by 

 the extreme length of its pods, sometimes as much as 3 ft. 3 in. 

 They are very numerous, and broader than those of the Cuban 

 Asparagus Bean, and they contain a large number of red seeds, 

 marked black around the white hilum. Ripens in the climate 

 of Paris. 



