TALL EDIBLE-PODDED KIDNEY BEANS 75 



leaf-stalks and the calyxes of the flowers ; the leaves are rather 

 distant from each other, very much crimped, and dull green ; 

 flowers lilac ; pods very numerous, straight, slender, at first of a 

 very deep purple, but, as they advance in growth, becoming paler, 

 and more or less bulged and undulated, but always very solid and 

 fleshy. They are sometimes 10 in. long, and relatively slender, and 

 contain six to eight seeds each. The seeds are long and flat, some- 

 thing larger than those of the Flageolet Kidney Beans, and almost 

 the same shape ; and are rosy colour marbled with lilac-gray. A 

 rather early and exceed- 

 ingly productive kind, and 

 one of the best edible- 

 podded sorts, being quite 

 free from membrane, and,, 

 when cooked, as green as 

 those of any other kind. 



Edible-podded Black 

 Scimitar Runner Bean. — 

 A distinct kind, with flat 

 kidney-shaped seeds, and 

 pods entirely free from 

 membrane. It is a tall- 

 growing plant, being over 

 8 ft. high, with thick pale 

 green stems. Leaves large 

 and broad, rather distant 

 ■from each other, pale green, 

 and crimped; flowers lilac; 

 pods long and broad, not 

 curved, but frequently 

 bulged or undulating on 

 the edges, 6 to 8 in. long, 

 violet at first, but losing 

 this colour as they increase 

 in growth, each containing 

 six to eight seeds of the 

 same size as those of the 

 White Dutch Kidney Bean, 

 but somewhat more humpy 

 and irregular in shape, and 

 with a very shining, brilliant 

 black skin. This variety is 

 remarkable for the great 

 size and beauty of its pods. 

 It is very productive, but rather impatient of damp, and half-late 

 in ripening. 



New Zealand, or Prague, French Bean. 



