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handsome form of the young pods, and for their uniformly 

 fine green color. 



A healthy, vigorous variety, with deep green Newington 



Wonder, 

 foliage and bright purple flowers. The plants 



often produce slender, barren runners, eighteen inches or two 

 feet in length ; but they are generally of short duration, and 

 the variety is treated as other Dwarfs. 



The pods are small and straight, usually about four inches 

 long, and nearly half an inch broad. They are pale green 

 at first, and afterwards change to yellowish-white, tinted or 

 washed with bright pink. At maturity they are dusky drab, 

 sometimes clouded or shaded with purple, and contain six or 

 seven beans. 



The ripe seeds are pale brownish-drab, with a yellowish- 

 brown line about the eye, oblong, flattened, shortened at the 

 ends, nearly half an inch long, and a fourth of an inch deep. 

 About thirty-six hundred are contained in a quart. As the 

 seeds are comparatively small, and the plants of spreading 

 habit, this amount of seeds will plant a row four hundred 

 feet in length, or four hundred hills. 



The variety is not early, and, when cultivated for its seeds, 

 should have the benefit of the whole season ; though, with 

 favorable autumnal weather, the crop will ripen if planted 

 the middle of June. Spring plantings blossomed in eight 

 weeks, produced young pods in nine weeks, and ripened 

 in a hundred and six days. 



The Newington Wonder is remarkably prolific, and, in its 

 manner of growth and general character, resembles the Tam- 

 pico, or Turtle-soup. As a string-bean, it is one of the best. 

 The pods, though not large, are crisp, succulent, and tender, 

 and produced in great abundance throughout most of the 

 season. The seeds, in their green state, are small, and of 

 little value for the table ; when ripe, they afford an excellent 



