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folded, leaves inclined to be small, and a dark green ; flowers white ; 

 pods short, with four or five medium-sized seeds, similar in shape 

 almost to those of the Liancourt Bean, glossy and a pure white. 



Common Round White Bean. — Like the last-named, very 

 irregular in habit, and almost entitled to be called a Runner Bean. 

 A slender light-green stem, about 3 ft. 3 in. high ; leaves a decided 

 green and smooth ; flowers white ; pods light green, not long, and 

 containing generally six white rounded seeds. In spite of its faulty 

 habit, this variety is commonly used in field culture for the sake of 

 its seed. A variety cultivated in Canada, under the name of Pea 

 Bean, and in the United States, under the name of Navy White 

 or Boston Small Bean, difl"ers very little from the Common Round 

 White Bean. 



Dwarf White Rice Kidney Bean.— A dwarf but remarkably 

 branching kind, forming clumps over 2^ ft. wide. Leaves very 

 numerous, rather pointed, medium-sized or small, and light green ; 

 pods short, very numerous, containing five or six seeds ; seeds 

 white, egg-shaped, nearly f in. long, ^ in. broad, and about the 

 same thickness, with an exceedingly thin skin ; of remarkably 

 good quality, and consequently much used in the dried state. 

 Although its seeds are small, it is very productive, but is rather 

 late, in consequence of which the seeds are sometimes spotted 

 and blemished if the autumn is cold and damp. There is a very 

 small-seeded variety of this plant, which produces vast numbers of 

 pods, and is known as the Dwarf Hungarian Bean, or the Hungarian 

 Rice Kidney Bean. (Sjn. Haricot Cointesse de Chambord.) 



Dwarf White Bagnolet. — A handsome, vigorous, hardy kind, 

 which in habit of growth is rather like the Black Speckled Kidney 

 Bean, but differs from it entirely in the seed, which is white, rather 

 flat, and kidney-shaped, and is good for use either dried or in the 

 green state. 



Imperatrice Dwarf Bean. — In appearance and foliage this kind 

 resembles the Swiss Kidney Beans, but it has broader and slightly 

 curved pods. Seed large, full, kidney-shaped, and remarkable for 

 a large deep red blotch encircling the hiluin, and extending over 

 about one-third of the surface of the seed, the remainder being 

 pure white thickly dotted with small red specks, which appear in 

 bold relief on the white ground. 



Mexican Dwarf Kidney Bean. — One of the earliest of all 

 the Tough-podded Kidney Beans, of low and scantily branching 

 growth, with medium-sized leaves, deep green tinged with gray. 

 Flowers very pale lilac ; pods short and rather broad, each con- 

 taining four or five egg-shaped, slightly flattened seeds, salmon- 

 rose, with a brown circle round the hilum. 



Neapolitan Kidney Bean. — Under this name are grouped 

 several varieties with white, egg-shaped seeds, like those which are 



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