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TALL EDIBLE-PODDED KIDNEY BEANS 



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exceeding 2 or 3 in. in length, and each containing four to 

 six small nearly round seeds of a 

 salmon-rose colour. 



Val d'Isere Kidney Bean. — 

 This is a very vigorous, leafy, late 

 kind,laden,in the end of autumn, with 

 green, fleshy, well-filled very much 

 curved pods. Seed black, egg-shaped. 



Villetaneuse Kidney Bean. — 

 This variety, which was formerly 

 very much grown about Paris, is 

 now almost entirely superseded by 

 the Tall-growing Butter Beans. It 

 is a productive, somewhat late kind, 

 bearing rather long, tender, and 

 thick pods, each containing five or 

 six flattened, almost square, coffee- 

 coloured seeds marbled and streaked 

 with brown. 



Gray Zebra Runner Kidney 

 Bean. — A late and very vigorous 

 kind, nearly 10 ft. high, with large, 

 spreading leaves and lilac flowers. 

 Pods thick, fleshy, curved, streaked 

 with violet on a green ground ; 



La Val d'Isere French Bean. 



Gray Zebra French Bean. 



seeds egg-shaped, of a dark gray colour, dotted with lighter gray, 

 and striped with black. Raised by M. Perrier de la Bathie. 



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