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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Red Speckled Cut Short or Corn Hill Bean. — A late variety, 

 with short cylinder-shaped straight pods, the seed almost square, 

 and streaked with red-brown. In the United States it is often 

 sown along with maize, which serves as a support for it. 



Saint-Seurin Kidney Bean. — A very vigorous and rapid kind, 

 with large, broad, deep-green leaves, and lilac flowers. Pods very 

 numerous, almost straight, marked when very young with violet 

 streaks ; seeds flat, kidney-shaped, salmon marbled and spotted 

 with black. It is hardy, very productive, and early, and is well 

 adapted for rather warm climates. 



II. — Dwarf Varieties of Tough-podded Kidney Beans 



Dwarf White Flageolet, or White Canterbury Kidney 



Bean. — The best known and most esteemed of the Tough-podded 

 Kidney Beans. The name Flageolet Bean is given to varieties 

 more or less similar to this, and the seeds themselves are known as 

 Flageolet Beans for culinary purposes. It is a low-growing thick-set 

 variety, with a stout stem, not more than i ft. or 14 in. high ; leaves 

 smooth or slightly pitted, of medium size, and deep-green ; flowers 

 white, with a faint tinge of nankeen yellow ; pods numerous, rather 

 flat and somewhat curved, and frequently irregular in breadth 

 through the abortion of some of the seeds. These, usually four or 

 five in a pod, are white, flat, and kidney-shaped, nearly | in. long, 

 over i in. broad, and less than J in. thick. In cases where only 

 one variety of Kidney Bean can be cultivated, a better selection 

 cannot be made than this one, for the young pods may be gathered 



and used as well as the 

 seeds. The seeds are 

 sometimes dried but are 

 best when fresh. 



Dwarf White Long- 

 pod Kidney Bean. — 

 More vigorous, with larger 

 leaves and greater length 

 of pods than the preced- 

 ing. The seed is white 

 when ripe, and somewhat 

 larger than that of the 

 common Flageolet ; the 

 young pods are long and 

 thin and very tender. 



Extra Early Dwarf Etampes Kidney Bean Extra Earlv Dwarf 



(i natural size). Etampes Kidney Bean. 



. — This new variety, which was raised by M. Bonnemain, is a 

 decided improvement on the White Flageolet, and is distinguished 



