XLIV. A Report upon the Varieties of the Bean cultivated in 

 the Garden of the Horticultural Society. By Mr. George 

 Gordon, Under Gardener in the Kitchen Garden Department. 



This and the following report are intended to reduce the dis- 

 cordant nomenclature of the seed-shops to something like order ; 

 to enable the gardener to know the quality of the sorts he is unac- 

 customed to cultivate, and above all to prevent his buying the same 

 kind under different names. The results which have been arrived 

 at are taken from the observations of several successive years, and 

 the comparison of many thousand samples ; from which it appears 

 that only eleven kinds of Beans can be distinguished among forty- 

 three reputed varieties. 



No. 1. Dwarf Fan. 



French Synonym, Feve naine a chassis. 



English Synonyms. Fan or Bog— Dwarf Cluster or Bog— Broad. 



Leaves ovate, slightly acuminate, and mostly seven in number, of 

 a dark green colour. Stems about two and a half feet high. Blos- 

 soms white, with the vexillum, or upper petal striped with brown, 

 and two dark brown spots on the alae or side petals. Pods short 

 and nearly round, seldom containing more than three beans, 

 which are white, small and nearly oblong. A very abundant bearer, 

 rather late and of good quality. 



