276 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



able from those of the White Running Cranberry. If well 

 grown, twelve hundred seeds will measure a quart. 



As a string-bean, the White Marrow is of average qual- 

 ity ; but, for shelling in the green state, it is surpassed by 

 few, if any, of the Dwarf varieties, as the large seeds not 

 only separate readily from the pod, but are remarkably 

 white and well flavored. As a garden-bean, it deserves 

 more general cultivation. When ripe, it is very farinaceous, 

 of a delicate fleshy-white when properly cooked, and by 

 many preferred to the Pea-bean. 



In almost every section of the United States, as well as 

 in the Canadas, it is largely cultivated for market, and is 

 next in importance to the last named for commercial pur- 

 poses. 



In field culture, it is planted in drills, two feet apart, the 

 seeds being dropped in groups, three or four together, a foot 

 apart in the drills. Some plant in hills two and a half or 

 three feet apart by eighteen inches in the opposite direction, 

 seeding at the rate of forty-four quarts to the acre ; and 

 others plant in drills eighteen inches apart, dropping the 

 seeds singly, six or eight inches from each other, in the 

 drills. 



The yield varies from twenty to thirty bushels to the acre, 

 though crops are recorded of nearly forty bushels. 



Yellow-eyed Plant sixteen to eighteen inches high ; the 

 China. , .... 



pods are six inches long, nearly straight, and 



contain five or six seeds. 



It is an early variety. Sown in May, or at the begin- 

 ning of settled weather, the plants blossomed in six weeks, 

 afforded string-beans in seven weeks, pods for shelling in 

 ten or eleven weeks, and ripened in ninety days, from the 

 time of planting. From sowings made later in the season, 

 pods were plucked for the table in six weeks, and ripened 

 beans in seventy-five days. Plantings for supplying the table 

 with string-beans may be made until the last week in July. 



