6o AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. 



(d) It is distinguished by heavy crops, besides furnishing, in its 

 stems and leaves, either green or dried, a nourishing feed, of which 

 cattle are very fond. 



(e) In their high percentage of protein and fat, they far excel 

 all other pulse in nutritive quality ; and when properly prepared 

 are second to none in flavour. 



After such favourable judgments, it might have been expected 

 that the soy-bean, at least in the warmer regions of Austro- 

 Hungary, would soon become popular and generally cultivated. 

 The result, however, was quite otherwise. The hopes which he 

 had aroused in behalf of this plant seem to have disappeared with 

 Haberlandt, who died in 1878. 



As I know from a reliable source,^ people soon became con- 

 vinced that it was possible to cultivate with certainty the early- 

 ripening yellow sorts. The crops from these, however, are un- 

 satisfactory. It is so difficult to boil them soft that they have no 

 sale and cannot be turned to due account. 



In view of the interest attaching for all these reasons to the 

 cultivation and use of Glycme hispida in Japan and neighbouring 

 countries, I introduce two tables at the close of this section, the 

 first giving several analyses of it and of its straw, the second a 

 view of its chemical composition as compared with other leguminous 

 plants. 



3. Ray-fruited dwarf-bean, Jap. Adzuki [Phaseolus radiatus, 

 L.). Kaempfer gives an excellent description of this, a variety that 

 is always provided with hairs on stalk and leaf Its short petioles, 

 springing from the base of the leaf, form a cluster of yellow 

 blossoms, followed in turn by from four to six hanging pods, either 

 spread out in wheel-shape or drawn together to a head. These 

 pods are cylindrical. The beans are no larger than small peas, 

 but shaped like a blunt ellipsoid, smooth and shining, and greatly 

 differentiated according to colour and size. Since the Adzuki have 

 a better taste than most other leguminous plants, their cultivation 

 and consumption have always been more extensive throughout 

 the whole monsoon region — in fact, second only to the soy-bean. 

 The numerous sub-species are grouped by Salvatier ^ as follows : — 



(a) Typicus, Umbellated pods, horizontally flattened, and 

 covered with red or black hairs. To this division belongs Adzuki 

 or Oku-adzuki (large adzukij with relatively large, brownish red 

 beans. 



{b) Penditlus. Pods smooth or set with short hairs, and hanging 

 in sets of four, two opposite two. The following varieties are 

 worthy of notice here. 



a. Kuro-adzuki, black-fruited adzuki. 



y8. Shiro-adzuki, white-fruited adzuki. The colour is no more 



^ According to written information, kindly furnished by Prof, von Liebenberg, 

 of Vienna. 

 ^ " Enumeratio Plantarum," etc. 



