462 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



somewhat advanced, the young plants thus receiving the 

 benefit of summer temperature, pods were gathered for 

 the table in about six weeks, and the crop ripened in sixty- 

 three days. 



Stalk fourteen to sixteen inches high, with comparatively 

 few branches ; flowers purple ; pods four and a half to five 

 inches long, streaked and spotted with purple, tough and 

 parchment-like when ripe, and containing five or six seeds. 



The ripe seeds are flesh-colored, striped and spotted with 

 purple (the ground changing by age to dull reddish-brown, 

 and the spots and markings to chocolate-brown), oblong, 

 somewhat flattened, shortened or rounded at the ends, five 

 eighths of an inch long, and three tenths of an inch thick. 

 Fourteen hundred are contained in a quart. 



The variety is remarkably early, and on this account is 

 worthy of cultivation. For table use, the young pods and 

 the seeds, green or dry, are inferior to many other sorts. 



White's A remarkably hardy and vigorous variety, 



Eflrly 

 FEJEE. eighteen to twenty inches high. Flowers white, 



tinged with purple ; pods five inches and a half long, curved 

 or sickle-shaped, green at first, yellowish-white striped with 

 purple when fully ripe, and containing five seeds. 



Early plantings will blossom in about six weeks, young 

 pods may be plucked for use in seven weeks, and the crop 

 will ripen in eighty-two days. If planted as late in the sea- 

 son as the first week in July, the variety will generally ripen 

 perfectly ; and, when cultivated for its green pods, plantings 

 may be made at any time during the month. 



The ripe seeds are either drab or light slate, both colors 

 being common, marked and spotted with light drab. In 

 some specimens, drab is the prevailing color. They are kid- 

 ney-shaped, irregularly compressed or flattened, nearly three 

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



