254 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



When planted in drills, they are made from fourteen to 

 twenty inches apart, and from an inch to two inches in 

 depth. The seeds are planted from three to six inches 

 apart ; the distance in the drills, as well as the space be- 

 tween the drills, being regulated by the habit of the* variety 

 cultivated. 



If planted in hills, they should be^ three feet apart in one 

 direction, and two feet in the opposite. If the variety under 

 cultivation is large and vigorous, four or five plants may be 

 allowed to a hill ; if of an opposite character, allow twice 

 this number. 



To raise Seed. Leave a row, or a few hills, entirely un- 

 plucked. Seed is of little value when saved at the end of 

 the season from a few scattered pods accidentally left to 

 ripen on plants that have been plucked from time to time 

 for the table. 



Varieties : 



Black-eyed Plant fifteen inches high ; the flowers are 

 white ; the pods are five inches long, green and 

 straight while young, and contain five or six seeds, these 

 are white, spotted and marked about the eye with black, of 

 an oblong form, and measure half an inch in length, and 

 three-eighths of an inch in thickness. 



A quart contains fifteen hundred beans, and will plant a 

 drill, or row, of two hundred feet, or a hundred and fifty 

 hills. 



The variety is early. Sown at the commencement of the 

 season, the plants blossomed in six weeks, produced pods for 

 the table in seven weeks, pods for shelling in ten weeks, and 

 ripened in eighty-seven days. It yields well, ripens off at 

 once, and, on account of the thick, parchment-like character 

 of the pods, suffers much less from wet and unfavorable 

 seasons than many other sorts. 



As a string-bean, it is of fair quality, good when shelled 



