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off in ninety days. For its young pods, or for green beans, 

 plantings may be made to the last week in June ; but the 

 crop will not mature, unless the weather continues favorable, 

 till the first of October. 



The ripe seeds are variegated with deep red and pale drab, 

 the red predominating ; kidney-shaped, nearly straight, three 

 fourths of an inch long, and three tenths of an inch deep. 

 A quart contains fourteen hundred and fifty seeds, and will 

 plant a row of two hundred and twenty-five feet, or a 

 hundred and fifty hills. 



The variety is hardy and productive. It is extensively 

 cultivated as a garden-bean in England and France, and has 

 been common to the gardens of this country for nearly two 

 centuries. The young pods are of medium quality ; but the 

 seeds, green or dry, are mealy and well flavored. On ac- 

 count of the parchment-like character of the pods, the seeds 

 seldom suffer from the effects of wet weather. 



Refugee. Plant sixteen to eighteen inches high, and 



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NK - readily distinguished from most varieties by 



its small, smooth, deep green, and elongated leaves ; flowers 

 purple ; pods five inches long, nearly cylindrical, pale green 

 while young, greenish-white streaked with purple when suffi- 

 ciently advanced for shelling, yellow when ripe, and usu- 

 ally yielding five beans. 



The Refugee is not an early sort. The plants blossomed 

 in seven weeks, produced young pods in eight weeks, and 

 ripened in eighty-seven days, from the time of sowing. 

 Plantings for the ripened product may be made till the middle 

 of June, and for the green pods, to the middle of July. 



The ripe seeds are light drab, with numerous spots and 

 broad patches of bright purple, nearly straight, cylindrical 

 at the middle, tapering to the ends (which are generally 

 rounded), five eighths of an inch long, and three tenths of an 



