upine. Pea. Pea-nut.
Vetch, or Tare. Winged Pea.

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AMERICAN GARDEN-BEAN.

French Bean. Kidney-bean. Haricot, of the French. Phaseolus vulgaris.

The Common Garden-bean of the United States is identical with the French
or Kidney Bean of England and France, and is quite distinct from the
English or Garden Bean of French and English catalogues.

The American Garden-bean is a tender, annual plant from the East Indies,
with a dwarfish or climbing stem and trifoliate leaves. The flowers are
variable in color, and produced in loose clusters; the seeds are
produced in long, flattened, or cylindrical, bivalved pods, and vary, in
a remarkable degree, in their size, form, and color,--their germinative
powers are retained three or four years.

As catalogued by seedsmen, the varieties are divided in two
classes,--the Dwarfs, and the Pole or Running Sorts.

_Dwarfs._--The plants of this class vary from a foot to two feet in
height. They require no stakes or poles for their support; and are grown
in hills or drills, as may suit the taste or convenience of the
cultivator.

All of the varieties are comparatively tender, and should not be planted
before settled, mild weather. They succeed best in warm, light soil;
but will flourish in almost any soil or situation, except such as are
shaded or very wet.

When planted in drills, they are made about two inches deep, and from
fourteen to twenty inches apart. The seeds are planted from three to six
inches apart; the distance in the drills, as well as the space between
the drills, being regulated by the habit of the variety cultivated.

If planted in hills, they should be three feet apart in one direction,
and about two feet in the opposite. If the variety under cultivation is
large and vigorous, four or five plants may be allowed to a hill; if of
an opposite character, allow twice this number.

_To raise Seed._--Leave a row or a few hills entirely unplucked. Seed is
of little value when saved at the end of the season from a few scattered
pods accidentally left to ripen on plants that have been plucked from
time to time for the table.

BAGNOLET.

A half-dwarf, French variety. Plant strong and vigorous, with remarkably
large, deep-green foliage; flowers bright lilac; the pods are straight,
seven inches long, half an inch wide, streaked and spotted with purple
when sufficiently grown for shelling in their green state,
nankeen-yellow whe