SC - Green Beans

[Sharon L. Harrett]

Greetings All from Ceridwen
	First I'd like to tell you all how much I have enjoyed this past
week's postings! The challenges, whether they be simple or complex, have
something for all of us! They have been wonderful!!!!.
	Comment on the Green Bean thing... John Gerard mentions 11 different
types of "Kidney Beans", with different characteristics of growing and
flowering, Friuting, etc. He sayss that 9 of those are common in English
gardens and are eaten both shelled (ripe) and " the friut and cods of Kidney
Beans boiled together before they be ripe, and buttered, and so eaten with
their cods, are exceeding delicate meat, and do not engender winde as the
other Pulses do" In the next paragraph, he goes on to describe the
praparation of the  unripe beans, including de-stringing them after being
parboiled.
	As for the Botanical evidence, I'm not entirely sure when and by
whom Latin classification was standardized, but Gerard names those beansas
follows;
	1.  Phaseolus Albus - Garden or White kidney bean
	2. Phaseolus Niger - Black Kidney bean
	3. Smilax hortensus rubra - Red Kidney bean
	4. Smilax hortensus flava - Pale yellow Kidney Bean
	5. Phaseolus peregrinus fructu minore alba - Indian Kidney Bean with
a small white fruit
	6.Phaseolus peregrinus fructa minore frutescens - Indian Kidney Bean
with a small red fruit
	7. Phaseolus prergrinus augustifolius - Narrow leafed Kidnay bean
(with a small red fruit)
	8.Phaseolus Brasilianus - Kidney Bean of Brazil
	9. Phaseolus Egyptanicus - Parti-coloured bean of Egypt.

As an aside, he says that there is a bean called the "scarlet bean" which is
grown in a garden he knows of , that the pods have little hairs on them that
sting like nettles, possibly from the East Indies, but not eaten.
	He also discusses Lupines (boiles till the bitterness is gone, and
eaten with pickle), peas and lentils, garden beans (fava major hortensis)
and black beans (not eaten)

	Anyone care to take a stab at comparing Gerard's beans to ours,
horticulturally or otherwise?

Ceridwen


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