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on a musk-scented, hairy vine having ribbed stems and long tendrils. 
The leaves are large and velvety, 6 to 10 inches long and about as 
wide. The petiole is cylindrical and 3 to 6 inches long. The seeds 
are brown, long, and angled. 
The white-flowered gourd for market is picked while immature. 
The fruit becomes coarse and fibrous when it is allowed to remain 
too long on the vine. 
Figure 39. — White-flowered gourds 
To prepare soup. — Scrape the young, tender gourd and wash. Cut 
it in 2-inch squares about one-half inch thick. Prepare as directed 
for making soup from Chinese preserving melon (p. 35). 
Yard-long Beans (Vigna sesquipedalis) . (Fig. 40) 
Chinese name : Cheong dau-kok 
Japanese name: Juroku-sasage 
Shape: Pods, long, slender. 
Size: Twelve to thirty-six inches in length; five-sixteenths inch in diameter. 
Color: Light yellowish to dark green. 
The plant is an annual and is a native of southern Asia. It is also 
known as asparagus bean, and is closely related to the cowpea but 
