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two feet and a half apart. If planted in hills, six or eight 

 seeds should be put in each, and, if the hills are three feet 

 apart, twelve quarts of seed will plant an acre. 



The Blue Pod is the earliest of the field varieties ; more 

 prolific, more generally cultivated, and more abundant in the 

 market, than either the Pea-bean or the White Marrow. It 

 is, however, much less esteemed, and, even in its greatest 

 perfection, is generally sold at a lower price. 



On account of its precocity, it is well suited for planting in 

 fields of corn, when the crop may have been partially de- 

 stroyed by birds or insects, and the season has too far 

 advanced to admit of a replanting of corn. In field culture, 

 Blue-pod beans are planted till the 25th of June. 



Canada Yel- The plants of this variety are from fourteen 



low. 

 KODND AMERICAN to sixteen inches high, and of medium strength 



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and vigor ; flowers lilac-purple ; the pods are 

 five inches long, nearly straight, green while young, yellow 

 at maturity, and contain from four to six seeds. 



Season intermediate. If sown early, the plants will blos- 

 som in six or seven weeks, supply the table with pods in 

 eight weeks, green shelled beans in ten weeks, and ripen off 

 in ninety days. When planted after settled warm weather, 

 the variety grows rapidly, and ripens quickly ; blossoming in 

 less than six weeks, and ripening in seventy days, from the 

 time of planting. For green shelled beans, the seeds may be 

 planted till the middle of July. 



The ripe seeds are of an ovoid or rounded form, and 

 measure half an inch in length and three eighths of an inch in 

 thickness. They are of a yellowish-drab color, with a nar- 

 row, reddish-brown line about the eye ; the drab changing, 

 by age, to dull nankeen-yellow. About seventeen hundred 

 are contained in a quart', and this amount of seeds will plant 

 two hundred and fifty feet of drill, or a hundred and seventy- 

 five hills. 



