480 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



The "White Cranberry is hardy, yields well, and the young 

 pods are tender and well flavored. For shelling green, it is 

 decidedly one of the best of all varieties, and for baking, or 

 otherwise cooking, is, when ripe, fully equal to the Pea-bean 

 or White Marrow. 



"Wild-goose. Plant seven or eight feet high, of healthy, 

 vigorous habit ; flowers bright purple ; the pods are sickle- 

 shaped, pale green at first, cream-yellow streaked and 

 marbled with purple when ripe, and contain six seeds, 

 closely set together. 



The variety requires the entire season for its full perfec- 

 tion. When planted early, it will blossom in nine weeks, 

 produce young pods in eleven weeks, green beans in thirteen 

 weeks, and ripen in a hundred and twenty days. If planted 

 and grown under the influence of summer weather, the plants 

 will blossom in seven weeks, yield young pods in nine weeks, 

 green beans in twelve weeks, and ripen in a hundred days. 

 Plantings for the green seeds may be made to the middle of 

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



The ripe beans are pale cream-white, spotted with deep 

 purplish-black (the cream-white gradually changing by age 

 to cinnamon brown) , round-ovoid, four tenths of an inch long, 

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

 A quart contains nearly seventeen hundred seeds, and will 

 plant two hundred hills. 



The variety has been long cultivated both in Europe and 

 this country. It is hardy and productive. The young pods 

 are of fair quality, and the seeds, green or ripe, are excellent 

 for table use, in whatever form prepared. 



Yellow Cran- Five to six feet high, with yellowish-green 

 berry. 



foliage and pale purple flowers ; the pods are 



five inches long, three fourths of an inch broad, often sickle- 



