284 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



Sabre, or Stem seven or eight feet high ; the pods are 

 large, broad, and thin, curved at the ends in the 

 form of a sabre, or cimeter, green when young, cream-white 

 when ripe, and contain eight beans. 



The variety blossomed in eight weeks, afforded young 

 pods for the table in ten weeks, green beans in eleven 

 weeks, and ripened in a hundred days, from the time of 

 planting. Sown in June, the crop matured in ninety days. 

 Plantings for the green seeds may be made till the last of 

 June, and for the young pods to the middle of July. 



The ripe seeds are clear white, kidney-form, three-fourths 

 of an inch long, and three-eighths of an inch broad. Six- 

 teen hundred are contained in a quart, and will plant a hun- 

 dred and sixty hills. 



The Sabre Bean is remarkably productive ; the young 

 pods are crisp and tender, excellent for table use, and good 

 for pickling ; the seeds, green or dry, are farinaceous, and 

 of delicate flavor and appearance. 



In height and foliage, size and form of the pods, color 

 and size of the ripe seeds, it resembles the Case-knife. The 

 principal difference between the varieties is in the earlier 

 maturity of the Sabre. 



"White Stem five or six feet high ; the pods are five 



inches and a half long, striped and marbled 

 with red when near maturity, yellowish-buff when ripe, and 

 contain five or six beans. 



It is 'not an early variety. From plantings made at the 

 usual season, young pods were gathered in nine weeks, pods 

 for shelling green in twelve weeks, and ripened beans in a 

 hundred and five days. For stringing, or for shelling in 

 a green state, the variety may be planted the first of July ; 

 but, in ordinary seasons, few of the pods will reach maturity. 



The ripe seeds are white, egg-shaped, sometimes nearly 

 spherical, half an inch long, and three-eighths of an inch 

 in breadth and thickness. In size, form, and color, they 



