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pointed. Flowers purplish. Pods when fully developed pale greenish 
yellow, abundantly striped and splashed with purple, straight or slightly 
sabre-form, tipped with a short, blunt almost straight point ; when 
ripe scarcely swollen by the.beans, almost cylindrical, parchment like, 
light dun _ yellow, five to six inches long, containing about four beans. 
Fully developed beans dark purple with abundant white spots. Ripe 
beans oblong, kidney-form, nearly cylindrical, rarely compressed at the 
ends, purplish black splashed and mottled with light brown or dun 
color. Average size of ten beans 9-16 inch long, 1-4 inch broad, 
7-32 inch thick! 
This bean resembles in many respects the Refugee, from which it is 
said to have been derived. It may be readily distinguished from it by 
the slightly larger size and general darker appearance of the ripe beans, 
46. Rep KIDNEY. 
Syn. Red French Kidney (Ferry), Chilian (Burr). 
A bush bean, of ordinary habit, not much branched and with no 
tendency to twining, 12 to 14 inches high. Foliage not very abundant, 
of medium color, not curly. Leaflets rather large, broadly wedge obo- 
vate, medium pointed. Flowers white with a slight tinge of pink. 
Pods, when fully developed, light greenish yellow, straight or nearly so, 
tipped with a slender point of medium length; when ripe slightly 
swollentby the beans, somewhat flattened, slightly wrinkled, parchment 
like, light dun yellow, five to five and a half inches long, containing 
about three beans. Fully developed beans light rose color. Ripe 
beans oblong, kidney-form, flattened sidewise, frequently compressed 
on the ends, light red changing to light brown. Average size of ten 
beans 21-32 inch long, 5-16 inch broad, 1-4 inch thick. 
47, CANADIAN WONDER. 
Syn. Rose (Gregory). 
The Rose,alth Sea advertised «s a new bean is apparently identical 
with the Canadian Wonder. 
A rather stout bush bean, with no twining habit, about eighteen 
inches high, mot very much branched. Foliage abundant, rather dark, 
slightly curly, Leaflets large, broadly wedge shape, inclining to triangu- 
lar, the lateral sometimes irregularly developed, rather short pointed. 
Flowers white tinged with pink. Pods, when fully developed, pale yel- 
low, almost straight, not much swollen by the beans, tipped with a 
long curved point ; when ripe nearly cylindrical, parchment like, light 
dun color, five and three-fourths to six and three-fourths inches long, 
containing from three to four beans. Fully developed beans bright 
rose color. Ripe beans oblong, quite strongly kidney-form, flattened 
sidewise, unusually strongly compressed on the ends, very dark red. 
Average size of ten besns 11-16 inch long, 11-32 inch broad, 1-4 
inch thick. 
48. Rep FLAGEOLFT, 
A medium growing bush bean, with no twining habit, twelve to four- 
teen inches high, quite strongly ‘branched. Foliage abundant, rather 
Light green, not wrinkled. Leaflets medium in size, broadly obovate 
