. KIDNEY-BEANS. 



but diagonally 5 and placed on the internal side of the 

 beans. The poles on one side of the double row ought 

 to point one way, and those on the other side, the other 

 way, forming, together, a sort of rough trellis-work. 

 Beans will go on climbing and bearing till they get to 

 the top. There are two very distinct varieties of these 

 climbers. One has a white seed, and has the perfect 

 kidney shape, the pod is very long and perfectly smooth. 

 This is called the Dutch runner, and is ve*y highly es- 

 teemed. The other variety has a seed not so flat, of a 

 black and red colour, it has a short pod, compared with 

 the otber and that pod is rough, instead of being 

 smooth, and the blossom is red instead of being white 

 as in the case of the Dutch runner. But there is a white 

 sort of this bean also : like the red-blossomed bean in all 

 other respects, but having a white seed and a white 

 blossom. These are called rough runners, because the 

 pod differs from that of other kidney-beans in being 

 rough instead of smooth. These are most admirable 

 plants : they bear prodigiously ; their product is, per- 

 haps, the most delicate of all ; and, from the latter end 

 of July, until the actual coming of the frosts, they con- 

 tinue to blow and to bear without the least relaxation, 

 let the weather be as hot or as dry as it may. The 

 Dutch-runner is not a very great bearer, and it gives out 

 in a comparatively short space of time : it will, too, 

 have good cultivation and favourable aspect ; whereas 

 the rough-runners will grow in the shade, will climb up 

 hedges and trees, will suffer their stems to be smothered 

 with weeds, and will continue to ornament whatever they 

 cling to, and to produce in abundance at the same time. 

 But, there is one precaution, applicable to all sorts of 



