470 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



the table, and the variety deserves more general cultivation. 

 If plucked as fast as they become of suitable size, the plants 

 will continue to produce them in abundance for six or eight 

 weeks. 



The ripe seeds are chocolate-brown, somewhat quadrangu- 

 lar, flattened, half an inch long, and three eighths of an inch 

 broad. In size and form they somewhat resemble grains 

 of Indian corn, whence the name. Twelve hundred and 

 fifty seeds are contained in a quart, and will plant a hundred 

 and twenty-five hills. 



Horticultu- Stem six feet or more in height ; flowers 

 MARBLED purple ; the pods are from five to six inches 



PRAGUE. F7. 



LO ^ N U!ML RTI " lng, nearly three fourths of an inch broad, 



WEEK'S EGG. 



pale green while young, greenish-white streaked 

 and blotched with brilliant rose-red when more advanced, 

 much contorted, hard, parchment-like and very tenacious of 

 their contents when ripe, and enclose five or six seeds. 



Planted at the commencement of the season, the variety 

 blossomed in about seven weeks, produced pods for stringing 

 in nine weeks, green beans in twelve weeks, and ripened in 

 a hundred days. Plantings made during the last week in 

 June will mature their crop, if the season be favorable. For 

 the green beans, plantings may be made until the last of 

 June, and for the young pods until the first of July. 



The ripe beans are flesh-white, streaked and spotted with 

 bright pink, or red, with a russet-yellow line encircling the 

 eye. They are egg-shaped, rather more than half an inch 

 in length, and four tenths of an inch in width and depth. 

 From the time of ripening, the soft, flesh-like tint gradually 

 loses its freshness, and finally becomes cinnamon-brown, the 

 variegations growing* relatively duller and darker. A quart 

 contains about eleven hundred seeds, and will plant a hundred 

 and twenty-five hills. 



