If one could accept as authentic the celebrated story of Jack -<1 the Beanstalk there would be every reason for believing that the remarkable vegetable climbed by him was a New Guinea butter bean. The reason for this conjecture is to be found at the annual winter show of the Ddnedin Horticultural Society in the Early Settlers’ buildings, where a New Guinea bean of mammoth proportions is being exhibited (says the “Otago Timos”). It has been grown by Mrs. C. King, of Opoho, and is fully 43in. in length and 151 inches in circumference at its thickest part* It weighs 131 b., hangs from a vine like any ordinary modest bean, and is said to have a flavour resembling that of vegetable marrow’.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 191, 15 May 1928, Page 5
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