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frequently compressed on the ends, dark dun brown with an almost 
black ring about the eye. Average size of ten beans 9-16 inch long, 
1-4 inch broad, 1-4 inch thick. ; 
According to Burr this variety has been cultivated fora long time 
in England and other parts of Europe. It was cultivated in this 
country in 1828. 
43. MARBLEHEAD CHAMPION. 
One of the few pole beans that grew to any size, seven to nine feet 
high, ratherslender. Foliagenot veryabundant. Leaflets broadly oval, 
rather stout pointed. Flowers purple... Ripe pods strongly curved, not 
much swollen by the beans, wrinkled, tipped with arather short point, 
pale dun yellow, five and three-fourths to six and one-fourth inches 
long, containing five to six beans. Ripe beans oblong, slightly kidney- 
form, more or less flattened sidewise, frequently compressed at one end, 
rarely at both, light brown or dun, finely mottled with chocolate. 
Average size of ten beans 19-32 inch long, 9-32 inch broad, 1-4 inch 
thick. 
44, REFUGEE. 
Syn. One Thousand to One (Burr), Brown Speckled Valentine (Lan- 
dreth), Turkish Date Bean (Martens), and according to the same au- 
thority it is called by the Missouri Indians Ohmenik pusaebne; on the 
Bourbon Island, Haricot lilas vert ; in Algiers, Haricot noir and Hari- 
cot de Bagnols; in Lisbon, Haricot bleu; in Venice, Fasioi faraoni ; 
in Lausanne and Paris, Haricot suisse gris and Haricot gris de Bag- 
nols ; in Germany, variegated Dutch and American Dwarf bean, Black 
Speckled Lady bean, Blue Dwarf bean, etc., cte. It is classed by Mar- 
tens under Phaseolus oblongus turcicus, Savi. 
A bush bean, of medium habit, not much branched and with no 
tendency to twining, eight to ten inches high. Foliage quite abund- 
ant, rather light green, not curly. Leaflets smal], broadly ovate in- 
clined to diamond-shaped, taper pointed. Flowers purplish. Pods, 
when fully developed, light yellow, sparingly spotted and splashed with 
dark purple, sabre-form, slightly swollen by the beans, tipped with a 
long, strongly bent, stout point ; when ripe cylindrical, parchment- 
like, dun color, four and three-fourths to five and one-fourth inches 
long, containing from three to four beans. Fully developed beans 
white nearly covered with lilac splashings. Ripe beans oblong, slightly 
kidney-form, almost cylindrical, rarely compressed at the ends, dark 
reddish purple splashed and mottled with light brown or dun color. 
Average size of ten beans 17-32 inch long, 1-4 inch broad, 7-32 inch 
thick. | 
It was cultivated in this country in 1828. 
45, GALEGA. 
Syn. Large Refugee (Henderson). 
A rather slender but very luxuriant bush bean, with no twining 
habit. Leaves rather light green, not wrinkled. Leaflets of medium 
size, broadly wedge obovate, often rather diamond-shape, very taper 
