466 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



sixteen to eighteen inches high, more 

 branched and of stronger habit than the Black 

 or Red-eyed ; flowers white ; the pods are six inches long, 

 nearly straight, pale green while young, cream-white at ma- 

 turity, and contain five or six seeds. 



It is an early variety. Sown in May, or at the beginning 

 of settled weather, the plants blossomed in six weeks, afforded 

 string-beans in seven weeks, pods for shelling in ten or 

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

 planting. From sowings made later in the season (the 

 plants thereby receiving more directly the influence of sum- 

 mer weather), pods were plucked for the table in about six 

 weeks, and ripened beans in seventy-five days. Plantings 

 for supplying the table with string-beans may be made until 

 the last week in July. 



The ripe beans are white, spotted and marked about the eye 

 with rusty yellow, oblong, inclining to kidney-shape, more 

 flattened than those of the Red or Black-eyed, five eighths 

 of an inch long, and three eighths of an inch in breadth. 

 Fifteen hundred and fifty are contained in a quart, and will 

 plant two hundred feet of drill, or a hundred and fifty hills. 

 The plants are large and spreading, and most productive 

 when not grown too closely together. 



The Yellow-eyed China is one of the most healthy, vigor- 

 ous, and prolific of the Dwarf varieties ; of good quality as 

 a string-bean, and, in its ripened state, excellent for baking, 

 or in whatever manner it may be cooked. It also ripens its 

 seeds in great perfection ; the crop being rarely affected by 

 wet weather, or injured by blight or mildew. 



POLE OR RUNNING BEANS. 



As a class, these are less hardy than the Dwarfs, and are 

 not usually planted so early in the season. The common 



