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Fully developed beans white tinged with dark blue. Ripe beans ir- 
regularly globose, occasionally flattened sidewise, more or less oblong, 
black, inclining to purplish, eye usually protuberant. ‘Ten beans 
aver aged i in size 1-2 inch long, 3-8 inch broad, 9-32 inch ego 
6. RED CRANBERRY. 
Syn. Pearl without strings (U. S. Dept. of Agr. Rept. 1854), Card- 
inal bean (Martens) and according to the same authority in various 
places in Germany High violet cardinal bean, Cardinal bean without 
strings, Medium Imperial Pole-bean, Foul Wife-bean, Red round 
church or ducat pole bean, etc., etc. 
It is classed by Martens under Phaseolus sphaericus purpureus, 
Martens. 
The bean grown by us under the name Boston Market Pole Cran- 
berry is apparently identical with the Red Cranberry. 
According to Burr the Red Cranberry grows five or six feet high ; 
but with us it was only slightly inclined to run. Foliage only moder- 
ately abundant, leaflets large, broadly obovate, almost triangular, mod- 
erately taper pointed. Flowers white tinged with pink. Pods when 
fully developed nearly straight, much swollen by the beans, tipped with 
a medium stout straight or curved point, pale yellowish, with faint: 
rose-colored plashings. When ripe nearly cylindrical, swollen by the 
beans, wrinkled, light dun color, about 4 1-2 inches long, containing 
about four beans. Fully developed beans darker or lighter red, accord- 
ing to stage of development. Ripe beans very nearly globular, the eye 
usually protuberant, deep dark red. ‘The average size of ten beans was 
7-16 inch long, 3-8 inch broad, 5-16 thick. 
The hed Cranberry was cultivated in this country in 1828, and is 
mentioned in the U.8. Patent Office Report for 1854. Burr says that 
it has probably been longer and more generally cultivated in this 
country than any other variety. 
7. Dwarr Rep CRANBERRY. 
A bush variety of medium height, with no indication of twining, 
only moderately leafy, leaves rather light and with only a slight ineli- 
nation to curl, leaflets broadly ovate, taper pointed, occasionally five 
veined. Flowers pinkish white. Ripe pods rather small, almost 
straight, slightly knotted, with a straight or curved slender point, 
medium in length, four to four and one-half inches long, containing 
about four beans. Ripe beans globular or nearly so, often compressed at 
the ends, eye usually plane, occasionally protuberant, deep dark red. 
Average size of ten beans 13-32 inch long, 5-16 inch broad, 1-4 inch 
thick. ‘The ripe beans of this variety resemble somewhat the pole 
variety, but may be distinguished by their slightly oblong form and 
occasionally compressed ends. | 
It was in cultivation in this country in 1828. 
8. PaLE Dun RUNNER. 
One of the few pole beans that with us grew to any height. Foliage 
very abundant, leaflets large, broadly ovate, rather inclining to lozenge 
