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purplish brown almost »black, indistinctly marked with fine, light 
brown blotches. One of the nearest neighbors of this bean in 1882 
was the Horticultural, a light brown bean speckled with dull red. Its 
other near neighbors were the French Yard Long and Kentucky 
Wonder, both brown beans. 
White Marrow.— A slender bush variety with a distinct tendency 
to twining, beans oblong, rarely slightly kidney form, not flattened 
sidewise or compressed at the ends, white with a veiny network. In 
this variety which showed no variations in 1882 there appeared the 
present season three well marked forms as follows : 
(a.) One plant of quite different aspect from the rest, pods flatter 
and more slender and striated with purple, beans oblong, flattened 
sidewise, often compressed on the ends, sometimes slightly kidney 
form, shining black in color. 
(b.) Beans of the same shape as the true variety, but mottled in. 
two distinct shades of yellowish brown. 
(c.) Beans elongated, flattened sidewise, rarely compressed on the 
ends, usually slightly kidney shape, slaty gray with’ a dull red ring 
about the eye. 
The immediate neighbors of this variety in 1882 were all white 
beans. 
Newington Wonder.— A slender bush variety, sending out slender 
barren runners; beans small, oblong, slightly kidney form, not 
flattened on the sides, usually compressed on the ends so that they 
appear quadrangular, light brown or dun colored, with a veiny net- 
_ work and a yellow ring about the eye. This bean, though showing no 
variation in 1882, has in 1883 produced the following distinct forms : 
(a.) Entirely like the true form but with small black spots more or 
less numerous scattered over the surface of the bean. ‘l'he same. plant 
on which this form was found produced also beans of the true type. 
(0.) Of the same size and shape as the true form in color varying 
from dark purple to light slaty drab finely dotted with light brown. 
(c.) Somewhat larger and more kidney form than the preceding, 
not compressed at the ends, in color slaty purple, indistinctly dotted 
with light brown. 
Pale Dun Runner. — A pole variety with purplish flowers, beans 
nearly globular, occasionally compressed at the ends, eye more or less 
protuberant, light brown or dun with a bright yellow ring about the 
eye, and a peculiar polished shining appearance. In the crop of 1883 
one of the plants of this variety bore scarlet flowers of the same color 
as the Scarlet Runner, but unfortunately no pods were ripened. This 
variety was planted close to the Scarlet Runner in 1882, but at quite ~ 
a distance in 1883. 
Red Fiageolet— A medium growing bush bean with no twining 
habit, b-..ns oblong, slightly kidney form, slightly flattened sidewise, 
usually aore or less compressed on the ends, dark red shading almost 
to blacx. There was no variation in this bean in 1882, but in 1883 a 
form appeared that was entirely like the true form in shape and size, 
but in color dark purple, mottled with light brown, pict in, 
this respect very closely the variety Lefugee. 
Galega and French Hmile, two similarly marked beans, were abe Des 
the nearest neighbors of the Red Plageolet in 1882. 
Scarlet Runner and White Runner.— These two varieties have been 
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