AMERICAN GARDEN-BEAN. 463 



A quart contains about sixteen hundred seeds, and is sufficient 

 for planting a row two hundred and fifty feet in length, or 

 two hundred hills. 



This variety, as an early string-bean, is decidedly one of 

 the best, and is also one of the hardiest and most prolific. 

 The pods should be plucked when comparatively young, and, 

 if often gathered, the plants will continue a long time in 

 bearing. As a shelled-bean, either in its green or ripened 

 state, it is only of medium quality. 



The long peduncles, or stems, that support its spikes of 

 flowers, its stocky habit, and fine, deep green, luxurious foli- 

 age, distinguish the variety from all others. 



From sixteen to eighteen inches high, of "White 

 strong and branching habit. Flowers white ; 

 the pods are five inches and a half long, sickle-shaped, green 

 while young, yellowish-white at maturity, and contain six 

 (rarely seven) seeds. 



It is a half-early variety ; blossoming in six weeks, yield- 

 ing pods for the table in seven weeks, pods for shelling in 

 eleven weeks, and ripening in ninety days, from the time of 

 planting. Later plantings will ripen in a shorter period, or 

 in about eighty days, and, if cultivated as a string-bean, seed 

 sown as late in the season as the last week of July will sup- 

 ply the table from the middle of September with an abun- 

 dance of well-flavored and tender pods. 



The ripe bean is white, kidney-shaped, flattened, three 

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

 About twenty-two hundred are contained in a quart, and will 

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

 or nearly three hundred hills. 



The White Flageolet is very productive, and is recom- 

 mended for cultivation ; the young pods are crisp and tender, 

 and the seeds, green or ripe, are farinaceous, and remarkable 

 for delicacy of flavor. 



