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be delayed beyond the 20th of June. Planted at this season, 

 or the last week in June, the crop will blossom the first 

 week in August, and about the middle of the month, pods 

 may be gathered for the table. By the second week in Sep- 

 tember, the pods will be of sufficient size for shelling ; and, 

 if the season be ordinarily favorable, the crop will ripen the 

 last of the month. It must not, however, be regarded as an 

 early variety, and, when practicable, should be planted before 

 the 10th of June. 



The ripe seeds are clear white, ovoid or egg-shaped, nine 

 sixteenths of an inch long, and three eighths of an inch 

 thick. In size, form, or color, they are scarcely distinguish- 

 able from those of the White Running Cranberry. If well 

 grown, twelve hundred seeds will measure a quart. 



As a string-bean, the White Marrow is of average quality ; 

 but for shelling in the green state it is surpassed by few, if 

 any, of the dwarf varieties, as the large seeds not only sep- 

 arate readily from the pod, but are remarkably white and 

 well flavored. As a garden-bean, it deserves more general 

 cultivation. When ripe, it is very farinaceous, of a delicate 

 fleshy-white when properly cooked, and by many preferred 

 to the Pea-bean. 



In almost every section of the United States, as well as in 

 the Caiiadas, it is largely cultivated for market, and is next 

 in importance to the last named for commercial purposes. 



In field culture, it is planted in drills two feet apart, the 

 seeds being dropped in groups, three or four together, a foot 

 apart in the drills. Some plant in hills two and a half or 

 three feet apart by eighteen inches in the opposite direction, 

 seeding at the rate of forty-four quarts to the acre ; and others 

 plant in drills eighteen inches apart, dropping the seeds singly, 

 six or eight inches from each other in the drills. 



The yield varies from twenty to thirty bushels to the acre, 

 though crops are recorded of nearly forty bushels. 



