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flowers ; the pods are five inches long, pale green while 

 young, yellow at maturity, and contain six or seven, and 

 sometimes eight, seeds. 



The ripe bean is white, egg-shaped, two fifths of an inch 

 long, and a fourth of an inch thick. Nearly three thousand 

 are contained in a quart, and will plant three hundred and 

 fifty hills. 



The variety somewhat resembles the Predhomme ; but the 

 seeds are larger and brighter, the pods are longer, the seeds 

 are less close in the pods, and it is some days earlier. It 

 ripens in about three months from the time of planting. A 

 good sort for stringing, and of excellent quality when ripe. 



This is one of the oldest and most familiar Ked Cran- 

 berry, 

 of garden-beans, and has probably been longer 



and more generally cultivated in this country than any other 

 variety. 



The plants are five or six feet high, of medium strength 

 and vigor ; flowers pale lilac. The pods are quite irregular 

 in form, often reversely curved, or sickle-shaped ; four 

 inches and a half long ; yellowish-green while young ; 

 clear white when suitable for shelling ; yellowish-white, 

 shrivelled, and contorted, when ripe ; and contain five or 

 six seeds. 



Its season is intermediate. Planted the 10th of May, 

 the variety blossomed in seven weeks, yielded young pods in 

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

 ninety-five days. In favorable seasons, the crop will ripen 

 if the seeds are planted the last of June ; but, for the young 

 pods or for green beans, plantings may be made to near the 

 middle of July. 



Seeds clear, deep purple, the h>lum white, round-ovoid, 

 slightly compressed, half an inch long, and about three 

 eighths of an inch in depth and thickness. Fourteen hun- 



