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AMERICAN VARIETIES OF GARDEN BEANS. 



Phaseolus vulgaris (Kidney beans) — Continued. 

 Plants bush — Continued. 



Pods more or less green in color at snap stage — Continued. 

 Fully developed snap pod brittle, etc. — Continued. 



Pods varying from oval to round in cross section — Continued . 

 Plants erect, or at least devoid of semirunners — Continued. 



Pods with more or less pronounced string Red 



Valentine, White Valentine, Cream Valentine, 

 Extra Early Refugee, Byer's Bush, Longfellow, 

 Best of All, Giant Forcer, Thorburn's Prolific 

 Market. 



Fully developed snap pods more or less tough or not readily breaking 

 when bent, but sufficiently free from fiber to be in general use as snaps 

 rather than as green or dry shell beans. 



Plants very spreading or with semirunners Galega, 



Hodson Green Pod. 

 Plants erect or at least devoid of semirunners. 



Plants purplish tinged and seeds light ecru Blue 



Pod Butter. 



Plants green and seeds sea-green Triumph of Frames, 



Wonder of France. 

 Plants solid green and seeds black, brown, or other than sea- 

 green or light ecru Long Yellow Six Weeks, 



Ne Plus Ultra, Veitch's Forcing, Vienna Forcing, 



China Red Eye, Mohawk, French Mohawk, Black 



Valentine. 



Fully developed snap pods decidedly tough and so full of fiber as to be 

 in more general use as green and dry shell beans than as snaps. 

 Plants very spreading or with semirunners. 



Plants thick-stemmed; green shell pods oval-flat and purple in 



color Black Turtle Soup. 



Plants thick-stemmed; green shell pods very flat and green in 

 color (except Lightning, which is sometimes tinged with 



brownish purple) Emperor William, 



Earliest Market, Everbearing, Lightning, Ten- 

 nessee Green Pod. 

 Plants thick-stemmed; green shell pods changing to oval or 



nearly so and green in color White Marrow, 



Improved Yellow Eye, Eureka. 

 Plants slender-stemmed; green shell pods changing to oval or 



nearly so and green in color Snowflake, Navy, 



Prolific Tree, Day's Leafless. 

 Plants erect or at least devoid of semirunners, except Boston Fa- 

 vorite. 



Seeds of solid white color Early Aroostook, French 



Flageolet, White Kidney, Vineless Marrow. 



Seeds of solid brownish or violet shades Red Kidney, 



Canadian Wonder, Vick's Prolific Pickler, Brown 

 Swedish. 



Seeds splashed with violet, red, or similar colors with gen- 

 erally a pale buff as the predominating color Improved 



Goddard, Boston Favorite, Marblehead Horticul- 

 tural, Crimson Beauty, Warwick, French Kidney. 



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