and other parts of
Europe, and is much esteemed for its hardiness and productiveness.

DWARF CRANBERRY.

Plant vigorous; and, if the variety is pure, strictly a Dwarf, growing
about sixteen inches high. As generally found in gardens, the plants
send out slender runners, eighteen inches or two feet in length. The
flowers are pale-purple; the pods are five inches long, sickle-shaped,
pale-green in their young state, nearly white when ripe, and contain
five or six seeds.

The ripe seeds are smaller than those of the running variety, but of the
same form and color: sixteen hundred are contained in a quart, and will
plant nearly two hundred feet of drill, or a hundred and seventy-five
hills.

The genuine Dwarf Cranberry is not one of the earliest varieties, but
rather an intermediate sort. If sown as soon as the weather will admit,
the plants will blossom in seven or eight weeks, and the young pods may
be gathered for use in nine weeks. In favorable seasons, the crop is
perfected in about ninety days. If planted in June, the variety will
ripen in ten weeks.

It is hardy and productive; and the young pods are not only succulent
and tender, but are suitable for use at a more advanced stage of growth
than those of most varieties. The beans, in their green state, are
farinaceous and well flavored, but, after ripening, are little used; the
color being objectionable.

A variety with a brownish-red, oval, flattened seed, half an inch in
length, is extensively known and cultivated as the Dwarf Cranberry. It
is ten or twelve days earlier, the plants are smaller and less
productive, the young pods less tender and succulent, and the seeds
(green or ripe) less farinaceous, than those of the true variety. With
the exception of its earlier maturity, it is comparatively not worthy of
cultivation.

DWARF HORTICULTURAL.

Variegated Dwarf Prague.

Stem about sixteen inches high; plant of vigorous, branching habit;
flowers purple; pods five inches long, green while young, but changing
to yellow, marbled and streaked with brilliant rose-red, when
sufficiently advanced for shelling in their green state. At maturity,
the clear, pale-yellow is changed to brownish-white, and the bright-red
variegations are either entirely obliterated, or changed to dull, dead
purple. If well formed, the pods contain five (rarely six) seeds.

It is a medium or half-early sort; and, if planted as soon as the
weather becomes favorable, will blossom i