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late, grew vigorously, blossomed profusely and ripened its seeds, barely 
escaping frost. 
The list of varieties of the bean is so large that one is inclined to say 
at once that a large number of the names must be synonymous. It 
was with a view of establishing this synonymy and also to establish if 
possible some sort of classification of the varieties, that so many were 
planted. 
fa Nothing has been done in this country, so far as we can learn, 
toward classifying the different varieties of the garden bean. In 
Germany a work has been published by Martens,* which classifies the 
various beans as follows: 
1. Phaseolus vulgaris, Savi, 
compressus, Martens, 
gonospermus, Savi, 
carinatus, Martens, |The common garden bean, 
oblongus, Savi, 
ellipticus, Martens, | 
sphaericus, Mar tens, 
2. Phaseolus multiflorus, faniarck: The Scarlet Runner. 
3. Phaseolus lunatus, L.: The Lima bean. 
In the above classification the garden beans are separated into species, 
according to shape, and the minor divisions are mostly founded on 
difference in color. It is only in separating individual varieties that 
the important garden division into pole or dwarf beans is used. 
The following descriptions of varieties are arranged after _&_ provis- 
ional classification. Should the results of another year’s trial coincide 
with the results of this year, the classification and descriptions will be 
made more definite and complete. 
In the descriptions which follow, all numbers referring to size of 
bean, size of pod, or number of beans in a pod are intended to repre- 
sent the average of the whole crop, and in no case exceptional de- 
velopments. 
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1. HORTICULTURAL. 
Synonyms, Marbled Prague (Vilm.), London Horticultural, Wrens 
gg (Burr), Speckled Cranberry (Martens). 
In Martens’ work it is classed under Phaseolus sphaericus haemato- 
carpus, Savi. ‘Two varieties grown bv us from seed obtained from 
different sources under the names Cranberry and London Horticultural 
seem to be identical. 
The Horticultural is a pole bean, varying, however, very much in 
height. As grown by us it was scarcely climbing, occasional plants 
running up four or five feet. According to Burr it grows six feet or 
more high, and according to Martens, under favorable circumstances, 
it will grow fifteen feet high. Leaflets broadly oval, moderately short 
pointed. Flowers white, tinged with pink. Pods, when fully developed, 
straight or nearly so, much swollen by the beans, greenish yel- 
low abundantly splashed with various shades of crimson and purple. 
Ripe pods prenely knotted and wrinkled by the beans, parchment 

* Die artaabendan. Thre Verbreitung, Cultur und Beniitzung, von si Oetng von Martens, 
Ravensburg, 1869. 
