448 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



eighths of an inch broad, somewhat irregular in form, yellow 

 when ripe, and contain five seeds. 



Season intermediate. Early plantings blossomed in seven 

 weeks, yielded pods for the table in eight weeks, and ripened 

 in ninety days. 



The ripe seeds are pale greenish-yellow, with an olive- 

 green line encircling the eye ; roundish-ovoid, three eighths 

 of an inch long, and nearly the same in thickness. A quart 

 contains nearly eighteen hundred seeds, and will plant a row, 

 or drill, of two hundred feet, or two hundred and twenty-five 

 hills. 



As a string-bean, or for shelling in the green state, it is 

 inferior to many other varieties, and is little cultivated for 

 use in these forms ; but as a variety for baking, or for cook- 

 ing in any form when ripe, it is much esteemed, and recom- 

 mended for cultivation. 



Hardy and productive. 



Long Yellow The plants of this familiar variety are of 

 Six-weeks. 

 SIX-WEEKS. vigorous, branching habit, and from fourteen to 



YELLOW six- 



m. sixteen inches high ; the flowers are pale pur- 



ple ; the pods are five inches long, six tenths of an inch 

 broad, often curved or sickle-shaped, green at first, gradually 

 becoming paler, cream yellow when ripe, and contain five 

 (rarely six) beans. 



It is one of the earliest of the Dwarf varieties. Spring 

 plantings were in blossom in six weeks, produced pods for 

 the table in seven weeks, and ripened in eighty-seven days. 

 Sown in summer, the plants afforded pods for the table in 

 about six weeks, and ripened in sixty-three days. Planted 

 as late in the season as the last of July or first of August, 

 the variety afforded an abundant supply of tender pods from 

 the middle to the last of September. 



The ripe seeds are pale yellowish-drab, with an olive-green 



