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for its young pods, plantings may be made to the last week 

 in June. 



The ripe seeds are remarkably large, often measuring 

 nearly an inch in length, and half an inch in breadth, pure, 

 glossy white, kidney-shaped, and generally irregularly com- 

 pressed. Seven hundred are contained in a quart, and will 

 plant about eighty hills. 



The young pods, while quite young and small, are crisp 

 and tender, and the ripe seeds are farinaceous and well 

 flavored. It is also an excellent sort for shelling in the 

 green state ; but the plants are not hardy, and thrive well 

 only in warm soil and sheltered situations. Under ordinary 

 culture, many of the pods are imperfect, and frequently con- 

 tain but two or three seeds. 



Stem five or six feet high ; flowers white ; White Cran- 

 berry, 

 the pods are five inches and a half long, pale 



green while young, striped and marbled with red when near 

 maturity, yellowish-buff when ripe, and contain five or six 

 beans. 



It is not an early variety. From plantings made at the 

 usual season, young pods were gathered in about nine 

 weeks, pods for shelling green in twelve weeks, and ripened 

 beans in a hundred and five days. For stringing, or for 

 shelling in a green state, the variety may be planted the first 

 of July ; /but in ordinary seasons few of the pods will reach 

 maturity. 



The ripe seeds are white, egg-shaped, sometimes nearly 

 spherical, half an inch long, and three eighths of an inch 

 in breadth and thickness. In size, form, and color, they 

 strongly resemble the Dwarf White Marrow, and are not 

 easily distinguished from the seeds of that variety. About 

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

 plant a hundred and twenty-five hills. 



