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The ripe beans are white, spotted and marked about the 

 eye with rusty yellow, oblong, inclining to kidney-shape, 

 more flattened than those of the Red or Black-eyed, five- 

 eighths of an inch long, and three-eighths of an inch in 

 breadth. Fifteen hundred and fifty are contained in a quart, 

 and will plant two hundred feet of drill, or a hundred and. 

 fifty hills. The plants are large and spreading, and most 

 productive when not grown too closely together. 



The Yellow-eyed China is one of the most healthy, vigor- 

 ous, and prolific of the Dwarf varieties ; of good quality as 

 a string-bean, and, in its ripened state, excellent for baking, 

 or in whatever manner it may be cooked. It also ripens its 

 seeds in great perfection ; the crop being rarely affected by 

 wet weather, or injured by blight or mildew. 



POLE OR RUNNING BEANS. 



As a class, these are less hardy than the Dwarfs, and are 

 not usually planted so early in the season. The common 

 practice is to plant in hills three feet or three and a half 

 apart ; though the lower-growing sorts are sometimes plant- 

 ed in drills fourteen or fifteen inches apart, and bushed in 

 the manner of the taller descriptions of peas. 



If planned in hills, they should be slightly raised, and the 

 stake, or pole, set before the planting of the seeds. The 

 maturity of some of the later sorts will be somewhat facili- 

 tated by cutting or nipping off the leading runners when 

 they have attained a height of four or five feet. 



Plant of healthy, vigorous habit, attaining a California, 

 height of six feet and upwards. The flowers 

 are white ; the pods are long, broad, and flat, green at first, 

 cream-yellow at maturity, and contain from six to eight 

 seeds. 



Planted May 20, the variety blossomed July 12, green 



