282 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



Jf planted early, the -variety will blossom in seven weeks, 

 yield pods for the table in eight or nine weeks, green beans 

 in eleven weeks, and ripen in a hundred days. When 

 planted after settled warm weather, it will ripen in ninety 

 days. 



The ripe seeds are white, the eye surrounded with a 

 broad patch of purple, which is also extended over one of 

 the ends : they are of a rounded-oval form, half an inch 

 long, and three-eighths of an inch in width and thickness. 

 A quart contains fourteen hundred and fifty seeds, and will 

 plant a hundred and fifty hills. As the plants are of dwarf- 

 ish character, the seeds are sometimes sown in drills ; a quart 

 being required for two hundred feet. 



The Mottled Cranberry is moderately productive, and is 

 cultivated to some extent for its young pods : the seeds, 

 while green, are of good quality. 



Red This is one of the oldest and most familiar 



of garden-beans, and has probably been longer 

 and more generally cultivated in this country than any other 

 variety. 



The plants are five or six feet high, of medium strength 

 and vigor. The pods are quite irregular in form, often 

 reversely curved, or sickle-shaped ; four inches and a half 

 long ; clear white when suitable for shelling ; yellowish- 

 white, shrivelled, and contorted, when ripe ; and contain 

 five or six seeds. 



Its season is intermediate. Planted the 10th of May, the 

 variety blossomed in seven weeks, yielded young pods in 

 nine weeks, green beans in eleven weeks, and ripened in 

 ninety-five days. In favorable seasons, the crop will ripen 

 if the seeds are planted the last of June ; but, for the young 

 pods or for green beans, plantings may be made till near the 

 middle of July. 



The seeds are clear, deep purple, round-ovoid, half an 

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



