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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



seeds of red-violet colour, and of the same size as the seeds of the 

 Red Prague Kidney Bean, from which they differ in colour only. 

 This is a good Edible-podded variety, somewhat late, but an 

 abundant and remarkably continuous bearer. 



Saint-Joseph Butter Bean. — This variety forms the connect- 

 ing link between the Prague Kidney Beans and the Butter Beans 

 properly so called. Its pods are straight or slightly curved, and are 

 streaked with red on a butter-coloured ground. The seeds are 

 marbled either with violet on a rose-coloured ground or with rose- 

 colour on a violet ground. The plant is not a tall-growing one, as 

 it seldom exceeds 4 ft. in height. It was raised about the year 

 i860 at the agricultural colony of Citeaux, near Dijon. 



Bulgarian Bean.— Rather late,, vigorous, and prolonged in 

 vegetation ; stems tall and twining ; leaves dark green, large and 

 abundant ; flowers lilac ; pods long, straight, very fleshy and 

 brittle, dark green in colour striped with violet, and free from 

 parchment. The seed is long, flat, gray streaked with purple, 

 about f in. long, h in. broad, and about half as thick. In the 

 climate of Paris it is one of the best and most prolific Beans for 

 producing green pods, but for maturing its seed it requires 

 the warmth of Southern France. 



Imperial Kidney Bean.— This is distinguished from the Tall 

 White Butter Bean only by the colour of its stems and pods, both 

 of which are green instead of butter-yellow. 



Climbing Yellow, or Dunes Yellow, Kidney Bean. — Of 

 medium height, productive, and fairly early. Seeds yellow, nearly 

 cylindrical, resembUng those of the Yellow Hundredfold. Pods 

 straight, very fleshy and tender, and from 4 to 6 in. in length. 



Lafayette Kidney Bean. — A tall variety, rather late, and with 

 pods not altogether free from membrane. Flowers white ; pods 

 pale green, becoming yellow when ripe, each containing six to 

 eight chamois-coloured seeds marbled with light brown and shaded 

 with reddish brown around the Jiilinn. 



Nankeen-yellow Geneva Bean. — A tall early plant, bearing 

 an abundance of pods in bunches of four, five, and even eight on 

 the same stalk. Seed kidney-shaped, flat, pale nankeen-yellow. 



Asparagus, or Yard Long, Kidney Bean. — A very tall kind, 

 nearly 10 ft. high. Leaves very large and distantly placed ; flowers 

 copper-coloured or lilac ; pods almost cyHndrical, exceedingly long 

 and slender, sometimes more than a foot in length ; seed very long, 

 nearly cylindrical, but narrowed at both ends, of a more or less 

 coppery chamois-colour. A late kind, requiring a warm climate. 



Rose-coloured Predome Butter Bean.— A plant of medium 

 height, seldom exceeding 4 ft., but branching and clumpy. 

 Flowers rose-coloured ; pods exceedingly numerous, growing in 

 profusion from the base to the top of the stem,, but seldom 



