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- at the ends, eye plane or slightly protuberant, the half of the? abenn . 
about the eye light brown or dun splashed with dull red, the remainder 
white with a veiny net-work and an occasional spot of dun or red. 
From this variety two forms were selected from the crop of 1882, 
marked respectively a and 0. 
(a.) Beans of the same size and shape as the true type, but with 
the light brown color almost entirely replaced by the dull red. ‘T'hese 
beans produced in 1883 a crop, nearly every bean of which was of the 
true type of the variety, forming an entirely parallel variation to that 
which occurred in the variety Lest of All mentioned above. 
(o.) Beans of the same color as the true type of the variety, but 
larger, oblong and slightly kidney shape. ‘There were but three of 
these selected ; two were planted and one was reserved for comparison. 
_ Of the two planted but one grew, and this produced beans entirely 
different from either the seed planted or the original variety from 
which it was selected. hey may be described as oblong, quite 
strongly flattened sidewise, slightly kidney form, rarely slightly com- 
pressed at the ends, yellowish brown with darker markings, which are 
inclined to form broken rings concentric with the eye. “None of the 
near neighbors of the Concord in 1882 at all resembled this variation 
in color. 
Horticultural.— A pole variety, beans irregularly globose, sometimes 
slightly oblong, occasionally compressed on the ends, eye usually 
slightly protruberant, light brown or dun, usually variously spotted 
or striped with dark dull red. ‘This bean was grown at the station in 
1882 both under its proper name and under the synonym Cranderry. 
Those grown under the name Cranberry were from seed that was ap- 
parently mixed, and at harvest time no less than four forms were se- 
lected, all of which were different. from any other known variety. 
These were labeled a, o,cand d and were planted in 1883, and re- 
sults noted as follows: 
(a.) An almost spherical bean, slightly smaller than the true type, 
light dun color with numerous small, angular, very dark, almost black 
spots. It produced beans entirely true to its own type. 
- (0.) A bean slightly smaller than the true type of the variety, quite 
strongly flattened sidewise, so as to be somewhat lenticular, light dun, 
almost covered with dark points, giving it a grayish oround color, 
with one or more dark bands or portions of bands concentric with the 
eye, running through the centre of each side. This produced for the 
most part beans true to its own type ; some were more inclined to 
be oblong in shape, and in a few all the colors were of a lighter 
shade, this last perhaps due to incomplete ripeness. 
(c.) A bean of medium size, slightly oblong, with rounded ends, not 
kidney shape, scarcely flattened sidewise, white, nearly completely cov- 
ered with dull mottled red blotches that are nearly spherical in form, 
and more or less confluent. This produced a crop about halfof which 
were true to its own type; of the remainder the mottled character of 
the red blotches was much more marked in some and in others all ex- 
_ cept the portion about the eye was white. This last form approaching 
quite closely in general appearance the Harly China variety. 
(d.) A bean entirely like the true type of the variety except that the 
red color covers almost entirely the whole surface. It Proc nee beans, 
all of which, with one or two exceptions, were of the true type of the 
