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ments. The Dutch call it Turcksboonen, the French Feues de 
Romme, and the “Englifo call it Kidney Bean, in regard to the 
Bean being of the form of a Kidney. It is alfo called Sperage 
Bean, Fafelles or long Peafon, Garden Smilax, which I fup- 
pofe to be taken from Diofcorides, who, as I {aid before, named 
it cpira¥ xuyraia, viz. Smilax hortenfis, Garden Smilax ; the 
Englifo alfo call it Roman Bean, and many French Bean. 
2. The Defcription. } 
The white Kzdney Bean, called in Latin Phafeolus albus, 
hath long and fmall Branches growing very high, taking hold 
with its clafping tendrels upon Poles, Sticks, Branches of 
Trees, dc. as Hops do, for without fuch Supporters, they are 
not able to bear their own Weight, and therefore run ramb- 
ling upon the Ground, which caufes them to be almoft fruir- 
lefs or barren, to what they are when ftick’d with Branches 
of Trees to climb upon. Their Leaves are very round on that 
part whereunto the Stalk is fix'd, and the oppofire part very 
acute. Their exterior form is very like unto the [vy (but 
are not fmooth) each Stem or grand Rib having three Leaves, 
the one at the end thereof, and the others near thereunto, op- 
pofite to one another.. The Flowers are produced from the 
upper part of thofe grand leaf Sralks, at their communication 
with the grand Stcm or leading Branch, and are of divers Co- 
lours, as white, red, pale, mixt, ec. which are fucceeded by 
long Cods, whereof fome are ftraight and others crooked, 
wherein their Seed or Beans are contained, and when ripe are 
of a fhining white Colour. 
But befides this white Kidney Bean, there are many other 
Sorts cultivated in our Gardens, and 1 believe more for Varie- 
ty’s fake, than that they are better, or even as good, as the, 
white Kidney Bean: However, as moft ingenious Gardiners 
think it worth their while to give them place in their Gardens, | 
I fhall not difpure them a place herein, of which the firft is 
the black Kidney Bean, called in Latin Phafeolus migers the 
fecond, the red Kidney Bean, called in Latin Smilax horten|is 
rubra; the third, Smilax bortenfis flava, or the pale yellow 
Kidney Bean; the fourth, the Kidney Bean of Brajil, called 
in Latin Phafeolus Brafilianus, and the Party-colour'd Kidney 
Bean of Egypt, called Phafeolus _Lgyptiacus. . 
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