VEGETABLES BEAN". 



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Peas,, are easy of cultivation and not particular as to 

 soil, and are, in consequence, rarely a 

 profitable crop in the locality in which 

 they are grown; hence the only way in 

 which they are made profitable is by 

 growing South and shipping North, they 

 being easily transported. Large quanti- 

 ties are grown in early soils in Southern 

 sections of the country and shipped to our 

 large Northern cities, and meet a rapid 

 sale at prices that must pay a large profit, 

 if their manner of growing the crop is as 

 simple as ours. It will be understood 

 that this crop is almost exclusively sold 

 in pod as snap shorts (in the green un- 

 ripened state) by the hucksters, and rarely 

 as a shell bean. 



The varieties are now very numerous, 

 but the following, placed in what we con- 

 sider the order of their value to the mar- 

 ket gardener, will embrace variety enough 

 for all practical purposes. 



BEAU". DWARF. 



Earliest Red Valentine, This variety 

 is at least ten days earlier than the Early 

 Red Valentine, which is one of the very 

 best market varieties. On account of its 

 great earliness it is largely grown by mar- 

 ket gardeners ; but except in the charac- 

 teristic of extreme earliness, it differs in 

 no other way from the Early Red Valen- 

 tine next described. (See figure 17.) 



TINE BEAN. 



