diate. If planted early, the variety will blossom in seven
weeks, yield pods for stringing in eight weeks, supply the table with
green beans in eleven weeks, and ripen in about ninety days. When
planted and grown under the influence of summer weather, pods may be
plucked for the table in fifty days, and the crop will ripen in about
twelve weeks.

The beans, when ripe, are white, with a large, rose-red patch about the
eye; the colored portion of the surface being striped and marked with
brownish-red. The fine rose-red changes by age to a brownish-red, and
the red streaks and markings become relatively duller and darker: they
are somewhat kidney-shaped, and measure three-fourths of an inch in
length and three-eighths of an inch in thickness. A quart contains
nearly thirteen hundred seeds, and will plant a hundred and fifty hills,
or a row of two hundred feet.

The variety yields well, and the green pods are tender and well
flavored. It is, however, generally cultivated for its seeds, which are
of large size and excellent quality, whether used in a green or ripe
state.

DUN-COLORED.

Plant of vigorous, branching habit, sixteen inches in height, with
broad, deep-green foliage and purplish-white flowers; the pods are five
inches and a half long, half an inch broad, green and nearly straight
while young, yellow and slender when fully ripe, and contain five or six
beans.

The ripe seeds are dun-colored or dark-drab, usually with a greenish
line encircling the eye, kidney-shaped, five-eighths of an inch long,
and about a fourth of an inch thick. A quart contains about seventeen
hundred beans, and will plant a row of two hundred and twenty-five feet,
or a hundred and seventy-five hills.

It is one of the earliest of the dwarf varieties; blossoming in about
six weeks, producing young pods in seven weeks, and ripening in
eighty-five days, from the time of planting. When sown after settled
warm weather, pods may be gathered for use in six weeks; and, for these,
plantings may be made until the 1st of August.

As a shelled-bean, green or dry, it is of little value, and hardly
worthy of cultivation. As an early string-bean, it is one of the best.
The pods are not only succulent and tender, but suitable for use very
early in the season. It is also quite prolific; and, if planted at
intervals of two weeks till the last of July, will supply the table to
the last of September.

The variety has long been cultivated in England