. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE KITCHEN GAEDEN. 109 The crop is greatly enhanced, both natural-grown and forced, hy early and regular gathering of the pods. It is an error to defer this until such times as the produce is actually required for use, the result being anything hut tender vegetables, which, grow- ing too long, tax the plants and li;init the after- supplies beyond what can he imagined. As a novelty in this class, the American Black "Wax, or Butter Bean, possessing yellow, waxy, transparent pods, is - appreciated by some people. In the same category may be placed t
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE KITCHEN GAEDEN. 109 The crop is greatly enhanced, both natural-grown and forced, hy early and regular gathering of the pods. It is an error to defer this until such times as the produce is actually required for use, the result being anything hut tender vegetables, which, grow- ing too long, tax the plants and li;init the after- supplies beyond what can he imagined. As a novelty in this class, the American Black "Wax, or Butter Bean, possessing yellow, waxy, transparent pods, is - appreciated by some people. In the same category may be placed the White Marrowfat, for use in the shelled state, both green and dried. The best modem varieties are : Canadian Wonder, Fulmer's Monster, Negro, Ne Plus Ultra, and Sion House. Bean, Rimner (Phaseolus multi- Jtorm). French, Haricots a Jfiames; Spanish, Jiidias; German, Stangen liohne.—The Run- ner, Climbing, or I'ole Bean, known commonly as the iScarlet Runner, is a native of South America. The name " Scarlet Runner," though intended to be ex- ] lanative, should lease to he used, if but from the fact that a white-flowered variety —known as the Dutch Runner—is more or less prown. A sport from the former also gaining favour amongst growers, having parti-coloured blooms, is named Painted Lad)'. The Runner Bean, as its native habitat suggests, is not so tender as the Dwarf Kidney Beau, though it cannot withstand the injurious eifects of more than two or three degrees of frost. Both as a garden and a field crop it is very general, its pods being highly nutritious, and appreciated, owing to a peculiar roughness they possess on the palate. It will never, however, take the same place in uni- versal estimation occupied by the highly succulent and tender Dwarf form. Though the plant is hardier than is the Dwarf, the seeds, nevertheless, are more liable to rot when placed in the ground; for which reason, rather than from any other, sowing is deferred until later than is alw
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