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pickling, and lias long been a standard sort. Seeds, diill 

 yellow, speckled with purple. 



IVcwington Wonder. — A wonderfully productive sort, 

 and one of the most popular of all varieties for private 

 use, the pods "being particularly crisp and tender; the 

 most valued forcing variety. Seeds light brown, lined 

 with yellow. 



White Marrowfat. — This variety is the one so exten- 

 sively grown for sale in the dry state ; it is also valued as 

 a string bean, but is used to greater extent shelled, either 

 green or dried. Seeds large, ivory white. 



Turtle Soup. — This receives its name from some fancied 

 resemblance that soup made from the ripe beans, has to 

 that made from the turtle. It is a late variety, requiring 

 the whole season in the Northern States to ripen its seeds. 

 Seeds small, glossy black ; generally used when ripe. 



BEAN. — {Pliaseolus vulgaris, etc.) — Ruxntng, or Pole. 



These require rather more care in culture than the 

 Bush Beans. The soil best suited is sandy loam, which 

 should be liberally enriched with short manure in the hills, 

 which are formed, according to the variety, from 3 to 4 

 feet apart, and provided with a stake from 8 to 9 feet in 

 bight, set in the centre of each. This class of beans is 

 particularly tender, and it is perfectly useless to plant the 

 seeds before the weather has become settled and warm 

 in spring, as they are almost certain to rot, and even 

 should they not, the plant makes no growth, unless in un- 

 interrupted warm weather. In this district, they should 



