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bean about the eye light brown or dun, splashed with dull red, the re- 
mainder white, with a veiny network, and an occasional small spot of 
dun or red, a dark yellowish ring about the eye. Ten beans averaged 
1-2 inch long, 3-8 inch broad, 5-16 inch thick. 
The Concord is mentioned by Burr (1866) as recently introduced. 
Gregory says its characteristics were made permanent after several 
years of experimenting, and is doubtless a cross between the White 
Cranberry and Horticultural, originating in Concord, Mass. 
4, MoTrLED CRANBERRY. 
Syn. Stringless (Burr). 
A slightly running, not tall, growing variety. Foliage medium, 
leafllets broadly ovate, almost triangular, rather short pointed. Flow- 
ers white. Pods, when fully developed, more or less sickle-form, not 
swollen by the beans, tipped with a short, moderately slender, curved 
point, pale greenish, with a striated appearance as if pubescent; when 
ripe rather broad, slightly flattened, strongly wrinkled, light dun yel- 
low in color, from four and one-half to five inches long, containing 
about four beans. Fully developed beans white with the half about 
the eye red. Ripe beans irregularly globose, more or less oblong, 
ends occasionally angled by compression, eye plane or often slightly 
protuberant. The half about the eye and extending over one end a 
deep dark red in perfect specimens, shading off toa lighter red in 
those not so perfect, the remainder white with an occasional red spot. 
The lighter colored beans have a dark ring about the eye. The aver- 
age of ten beans measured was 1-2 inch long, 5-16 inch broad, 9-32 
inch thick. Vr: 
5. INDIAN CHIEF. 
Syn. Wax-bean, Butter-bean, Algerian, D’Alger of the French 
(Burr). Pearl or Round Turkey Pea bean (U.S. Dept. Agr; Rept. 
1854), Chinese Butter-bean (Martens), and according to the same 
authority, in Lyons, Pole Butter-Bean from Algiers ; in Paris, Pole 
Butter-bean, sans parchemin; in Lausanne, Yellow podded Italian 
bean ; in Stuttgart, Butter-bean; in Hohenheim, Black Wax pole 
bean and English Asparagus-bean ; in Bopfingen, Citron-bean ; in 
Zurich, ‘Transparent Wax Pole-bean without strings; in Ulm, Wax 
Pole-bean, etc., etc. 
The beans grown by us under the names of Indian Chief, Black 
Wax and German Wax appear to be identical. 
Indian Chief is classed by Martens under Phaseolus sphaericus niger, 
Martens. | 
The Indian Chief is pole-bean, with us scarcely climbing, although 
Burr says it grows six or seven feet high. Foliage rather scanty, leaf- 
lets quite small (except those grown by us under the name Black 
Wax) ; inclined to lozenge shape, moderately taper pointed. Flowers 
white tinged with pink. Pods yellow from the first, when fully de- 
veloped, more or less sickle form, much swollen by the beans, tipped 
with a short stiff curved point, pale yellow, plentifully splashed with 
purple, ripe pods not materially different except that they are-strongly 
wrinkled; 4 1-2 and 5 1-2 inches long, containing four and five beans. 
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