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

 a hundred and fifty hills. 



It is a hardy and productive variety, principally grown as 

 a string-bean. The pods are succulent and tender ; and 

 these qualities are retained to a very advanced stage of 

 growth, or until quite of suitable size for shelling. The dark 

 color of the bean, which is to some extent imparted to the 

 pods in the process of cooking, is by some considered an 

 objection, and the White Cranberry, though perhaps less 

 prolific, is preferred. As a shelled-bean, it is of good qual- 

 ity in its green state, but in its ripened state little used, 

 though dry and farinaceous. 



Bed Orleans. Five to six feet high ; flowers white ; the 

 A LE L A.VS. pods are sickle-shaped, five inches long, green 

 when young, often tinged with red when more advanced, 

 yellow at full maturity, and contain five or six seeds, packed 

 closely together. 



It is one of the earliest of the running varieties. Spring 

 plantings blossomed in about seven weeks, afforded pods for 

 the table in eight weeks, green beans in eleven weeks, and 

 ripened in eighty-five days. Planted later in the season, 

 pods sufficiently large for stringing were gathered in six 

 weeks, and the crop began to ripen in about seventy days. 

 As a string-bean, the variety may be planted until the first 

 of August. 



At the time of harvesting, the ripe seeds are of a bright 

 blood-red color, but change rapidly by age to brownish-red. 

 They are of an oblong form, often squarely or diagonally 

 shortened at the ends by contact with each other in the pods, 

 half an inch long, and three tenths of an inch broad. A 

 quart, which contains nearly twenty-four hundred seeds, will 

 plant about two hundred and seventy-five hills. 



The Red Orleans is quite prolific, and a desirable sort for 



