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cellent quality, either in its green or ripened state. As a 

 variety for stringing, it has little merit. 



Turtle-soup. Plant, vigorous, producing numerous slen- 

 der, barren runners two feet or more in length. 

 The pods are five inches long, sickle-shaped, and contain five 

 or six seeds. 



The variety is quite late, and requires most of the season 

 for its full perfection. Plants from early sowings blossomed 

 in eight weeks, the young pods were sufficiently grown for 

 use in ten weeks, and the crop ripened in a hundred and 

 eight days. As the young pods are tender and of excellent 

 quality, and are also produced in great abundance, a plant- 

 ing for these may be made as late as the last week in June, 

 which will supply the table from the last of August till the 

 plants are destroyed by frost. 



The ripe seeds are small, glossy-black, somewhat oblong, 

 and much flattened. Thirty-six hundred are contained in a 

 quart, and will plant four hundred feet of drill, or three 

 hundred and fifty hills. 



It is very productive, and deserving of cultivation for its 

 young and tender pods, but is of little or no value for shell- 

 ing while green. The ripened seeds are used, as the name 

 implies, in the preparation of a soup, which, as respects 

 color and flavor, bears some resemblance to that made from 

 the green turtle. 



Victoria. This is one of the earliest of the Dwarf varie- 

 ties. Plants from early sowings were in blossom 

 in six weeks, yielded pods for the table in seven weeks, pro- 

 duced pods of suitable size for shelling in ten weeks, and 

 ripened in eighty-four days. When planted after the season 

 had somewhat advanced, the young plants thus receiving 

 the benefit of summer temperature, pods were gathered 

 for the table in six weeks, and the crop ripened in sixty- 

 three days. 



