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short and broad, four inches and a half long, three fourths 

 of an inch wide, yellow at maturity, and contain four or five 

 seeds. 



If planted early, the variety will blossom in seven weeks, 

 yield pods for the table in eight or nine weeks, green beans 

 in eleven weeks, and ripen in a hundred days. When 

 planted after settled warm weather, it will ripen in ninety 

 days. 



The ripe seeds are white, the eye surrounded with a broad 

 patch of purple, which is also extended over one of the 

 ends ; they are of a rounded-oval form, half an inch long, 

 and three eighths of an inch in width and thickness. A 

 quart contains fourteen hundred and fifty seeds, and will 

 plant a hundred and fifty hills. As the plants are of dwarf- 

 ish character, the seeds are sometimes sown in drills, a 

 quart being required for two hundred feet. 



The Mottled Cranberry is moderately productive, and the 

 young pods are tender and well flavored ; the seeds, while 

 green, are farinaceous, and, though of good quality when 

 ripe, are but little used. 



Plant branching, healthy, and vigorous, six Mottled 

 . . Prolific, 



feet or more in height ; flowers purple ; the 



pods are four inches and a half long, usually produced in 

 pairs, green at first, washed with purple when more ad- 

 vanced, light brown at maturity, and contain six seeds. 



It is a late variety. Plantings made during the first of 

 the season will not produce pods for use until the last of 

 July, or beginning of August ; but, if these are plucked as 

 they become of suitable size, the plants will continue in 

 bearing until destroyed by frost. 



The ripe beans are drab, thickly and minutely spotted with 

 black, and also distinctly marked with regular lines of the 

 same color. They are of an oblong form, flattened, often 

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