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The White Cranberry, according to Burr, grows five to six feet 
high, but with us scarcely climbing at al]. Only moderately leafy, 
leaflets of medium size, broadly ovate, rather short-pointed. Flowers 
white. Pods, when fully developed, straight or nearly so, somewhat 
swollen by the beans, tipped with a short stout point, pale yellow; 
when ripe strongly swollen, wrinkled, light dun color, about four 
inches long, containing aboutfour beans. Fully developed beans white 
with veiny markings. Ripe beans nearly globular, occasionally 
slightly compressed at the ends, eye plane or slightly protuberant, 
pure white,. with a faint veiny network and an ivory-like polish. 
Average size of ten beans 13-32 inch long, 11-32 inch broad, 9-32 
inch thick. It was in cultivation in this country in 1828. 
12. TuRTLE Soup. 
Syn. Tampico (Burr), Negro bean (Martens), and, according to the 
same authority, in various other places, Frijoles de Tampico, Pois 
violet, Pois a negres, Black Frijoles, Brazilion running bean, Brazil- 
ian dwarf bean, etc. It is classed by Martens under Phaseolus vul- 
garis nigerimus, Zuccagni. 
Plant rather slender in habit, with a decided tendency to climbing 
not much branched, foliage moderately abundant, leaves rather ligh 
green, no tendency to curliness, leaflets medium size, broadly wedg. 
obvate, the lateral often unequally developed, very short pointed 
Flowers purplish. Pods, when fully developed, pale yellow with pur- 
ple spots, some of them almost entirely dark blackish purple, quite 
strongly sabre-form, scarcely swollen by the beans, tipped with a 
short and rather stiff curved point; when ripe dun colored, not swol- 
len or wrinkled, four and one-half to five inches long, containing from 
four to five beans. Fully developed beans dark purplish black. Ripe 
beans oblong, kidney-form, flattened sidewise and occasionally com- 
pressed at the ends, jet black, shining when first shelled, but losing 
their lustre when old, ‘Ten beans averaged in size 13-32 inch long, 
1-4 inch broad, 5-32 inch thick. 
138. NEWINGTON WONDER. 
Syn. The Brown date bean (Martens), Early Brown or Liver colt 
ored bean (Bryant), Tan colored Dwarf bean (Loudon). It is classed 
by Martens under Phaseolus oblongus spadiceus, Savi. ‘The bean 
grown by us under the name of Karly Snap Shorts is apparently iden- 
tical with this. 
A bush bean of quite slender habit, not over ten inches high, but 
with slender runners much longer, slightly branched, foliage very 
abundant, rather dark green, not inclined to curl, leaflets very small, 
broadly ovate, rather short-pointed. Flowers purple. Pods, when 
fully developed, quite strongly bent, tipped with a short stout straight 
or curved point, pale yellowish green, often almost entirely covered 
with reddish purple, about four inches long, containing from four to 
five beans. Fully developed beans white with veiny markings. Ripe 
beans oblong, slightly kidney-form, not flattened on the sides, usually 
compressed on the ends so that they appear quadrangular, light brown 
or dun color with a veiny network and a yellow ring about the eye, 
small. Ten beans averaged 3-8 inch long, 1-4 inch broad, 3-16 inch 
thick. 
