436 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



will be sufficient for three hundred feet of drill, or for nearly 

 three hundred hills. If planted in drills, they should be 

 made twenty inches apart, and two plants allowed to a linear 

 foot. 



The variety is not early, and requires the entire season for 

 its full perfection. When sown as soon as the weather is 

 suitable, the plant will blossom in about seven weeks. In 

 sixty days, pods may be plucked for use ; and the crop will 

 be ready for harvesting in fifteen weeks from the time of 

 planting. For its green pods the seeds may be planted until 

 the middle of July. 



The Bagnolet is of little value as a shelled-bean, either 

 green or ripe. As a string-bean, it is deservedly considered 

 one of the best. The pods are produced in great abundance, 

 and are not only tender, succulent, and well flavored, but 

 remain long on the plants before they become tough and 

 unfit for use. If the pods are plucked as they attain a 

 suitable size, new pods will rapidly succeed, and the plants 

 will afford a continued supply for several weeks. 



Black-eyed Plant fifteen inches high, less strong and 

 Oiiint. 



vigorous than that of the Common Red-eyed 



China ; the flowers are white ; the pods are comparatively 

 short, usually about five inches long, green arid straight 

 while young, straw-yellow when sufficiently advanced for 

 shelling, yellow, thick, hard, and parchment-like when ripe, 

 and contain five or six seeds, these are white, spotted and 

 marked about the eye with black, of an oblong form, usually 

 rounded, but sometimes shortened at the ends, slightly com- 

 pressed on the sides, and measure half an inch in length, 

 and three eighths of an inch in thickness. 



A quart contains fifteen hundred beans, and will plant a 

 drill, or row, of two hundred feet, or a hundred and fifty 

 hills. 



