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like, slightly flattened or often very nearly round, tipped with a me- 
dium slightly bent point. About fourjand one-half inches long con- 
taining four to six beans. Fully developed beans nearly spherical, 
white splashed with pale rose color. Ripe beans irregularly globose, 
sometimes slightly oblong, occasionally compressed on the ends, eye 
usually slightly protuberant, light brown or dun, variously striped and 
spotted with dark dull red, the colors becoming darker with age. A 
dark yellow ring about the eye. ‘The average size of ten seed was 1-2 
inch long, 3-8 broad, 5-16 thick. 
It was introduced into America from England in 1825. (Burr.) 
2. INTERMEDIATE HORTICULTURAL. 
The bean grown by us under the name of Dwarf Cranberry seems 
to be entirely identical with the Intermediate Horticultural. 
A bush bean of medium habit, not much_ branched, and with no 
twining habit whatever. As grown by us from ten to twelve inches 
high. Leaves quite abundant, dark green, somewhat inclined to curli- 
ness, leaflets broadly triangular, about two-thirds as wide as long, rarely 
very slightly heart shaped, slightly taper pointed. Flowers, white tinged 
with pink. Pods when fully developed more or less sabre form, swol- 
len and knotted by the beans, light yellow or greenish yellow streaked 
and flushed with crimson or rose color. Ripe pods usually quite 
strongly bent, slightly flattened or nearly cylindrical, tipped with a 
slender much curved point, light dun yellow, indistinctly flushed with 
dull purple, about four and one-half inches long, containing from 
three to four beans. Fully developed beans white with veiny mark- 
ings, and with streaks and spots of rose color that are somewhat in- 
clined to be concentric about the eye. Ripe beans slightly oblong or 
irregularly globose, many are about once and one-half as long as broad, 
occasionally compressed at the ends, never kidney-shaped, the eye 
often being slightly protuberant, light brown, streaked and splashed 
with dull red, and a dark yellow ring about the eye, the colors becom- 
ing darker with age. The average size of ten beans was 1-2 inch 
long, 9-32 broad, 9-32 thick, 
The pods and seeds of this bean very closely resemble the preceed- 
ing, of which it may be considered a dwarf form. The beans are, 
however, slightly more oblong, and the pods not quite so wrinkled and 
knotted as those of the pole Horticultural. 
3. CONCORD. 
The Concord is a pole bean growing with us from two and one-half 
to three feet high, but according to Burr it grows six feet and upward. 
Foliage rather abundant, leaflets broadly wedge obovate, slightly taper 
pointed. Flowers white. Pods, when fully developed, sabre-form, 
swollen by the beans, tipped with a long rather slender point, pale 
yellow in color; when ripe rather broad, slightly flattened, quite 
strongly knotted, light brown in color, about four and one-half inches 
long, containing from four to five beans. Fully developed beans 
white, with pale rose-colored markings, mostly on the half about the 
eye. Ripe beans irregularly globose, scarcely oblong, slightly com- 
pressed at the ends, eye plane, slightly protuberant. The half of the 
