Excerpt from The Jack Bean This plant grows in many gardens in Jamaica, where it is cultivated chiefly out of curiosity. It seems to keep a main between the upright and the climbing species of Phaseolus, for the stem seldom rises above 3 or 4 feet, though it emits some slender delicate shoots that run much farther. The pods are commonly between 10 and 14 inches in length and generally contain 10 or 11 seeds, but the pulse is very seldom used, being generally thought more or less of a deleterious nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.