454 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



By many, and perhaps by a majority, the Pea-bean is 

 esteemed the best of all baking varieties. 



Pottawotto- The plants of this variety are remarkable for 

 mie. 



their strong, vigorous habit, and large, luxu- 

 riant foliage. The flowers are flesh- white ; the pods are six 

 inches long, green at first, then mottled and streaked with 

 lively rose-red on a cream-white ground (the markings chan- 

 ging to purple at maturity), and contain five (rarely six) 

 seeds. 



The variety is comparatively late. Plants from seeds sown 

 early in the season were in flower in seven weeks, afforded 

 pods for shelling in eleven weeks, and ripened in a hundred 

 days, from the time of planting. 



The ripe seeds are of a light creamy pink color, streaked 

 and spotted with red or reddish-brown ; the soft, flesh-like 

 color, however, soon becomes duller and darker, and at last 

 gives place to a dull, cinnamon-brown. They are kidney- 

 shaped, fully three fourths of an inch long, and about three 

 eighths of an inch broad. About a thousand will measure a 

 quart, and will plant a row two hundred feet in length, or a 

 hundred and twenty-five hills. On account of the large size 

 and spreading habit of the plants, five seeds will be sufficient 

 for a hill, and in the rows they should be dropped five or 

 six inches from each other. 



The young pods are inferior to most varieties in crispness, 

 and tenderness of texture, and are comparatively but little 

 used. The seeds are remarkably large, separate easily from 

 the pods, and, green or ripe, are very farinaceous and 

 well flavored, nearly or quite equalling the Dwarf and Run- 

 ning Horticultural. 



Bed Flageo- A half-dwarf, French Bean, two to three feet 



let. 

 SCARLE-T FLAGEO- hjgh ; flowers pale purple ; the pods are six 



