less from wet and
unfavorable seasons than many other sorts.

As a string-bean, it is of fair quality, good when shelled in the green
state, and farinaceous and mild flavored when ripe.

BLUE POD.

A half-dwarf variety, growing from two to three feet high, with a
branching stem, deep-green foliage, and white flowers. The pods are five
inches long, pale-green while young, light-yellow as the season of
maturity approaches, cream-white when fully ripe, and contain five or
six seeds.

Its season is intermediate. If sown early, the plants will blossom in
seven weeks, afford pods for stringing in eight weeks, green beans in
ten or eleven weeks, and ripen their seeds in ninety-seven days. It is a
week earlier than the White Marrow, and ten days in advance of the
Pea-bean. Plantings may be made as late as the last week in June, which
will yield pods for the table in seven weeks, and ripen the middle of
September, or in about twelve weeks.

The ripe seed is white, oblong, flattened, rounded on the back, often
squarely or angularly shortened at the ends, half an inch long, and a
fourth of an inch thick: twenty-seven hundred will measure a quart.

It is a field rather than a garden variety; though the green pods are
tender and well flavored. If planted in drills two feet apart, five
pecks of seed will be required for an acre; or four pecks for the same
quantity of ground, if the rows are two feet and a half apart. If
planted in hills, six or eight seeds should be put in each; and, if the
hills are three feet apart, twelve quarts of seed will plant an acre.

The Blue Pod is the earliest of the field varieties; more prolific, more
generally cultivated, and more abundant in the market, than either the
Pea-bean or the White Marrow. It is, however, much less esteemed; and,
even in its greatest perfection, is almost invariably sold at a lower
price.

On account of its precocity, it is well suited for planting in fields of
corn, when the crop may have been partially destroyed by birds or
insects, and the season has too far advanced to admit of a replanting of
corn. In field-culture, Blue-pod beans are planted till the 25th of
June.

CANADA YELLOW.

Round American Kidney. _Law._

The plants of this variety are from fourteen to sixteen inches high, and
of medium strength and vigor; flowers lilac-purple; the pods are five
inches long, nearly straight, green while young, yellow at maturity, and
contain from four to six see