e ground; and, being unusually thin and delicate, the crop often
suffers to a considerable extent from the effects of rain and dampness
in unfavorable seasons.

The young pods are remarkable for their tender and succulent character;
and the beans, both in a green and dried state, are mild and well
flavored. It is hardy, productive, of good quality, and recommended for
cultivation.

DWARF SOISSONS.

A half-dwarf, French bean, similar in habit to the Dwarf Sabre. While
young, the plants produce slender runners, two feet or more in length;
but, as they are generally of short duration, the variety is cultivated
as a Common Dwarf. The flowers are white; pods six inches long,
pale-green at first, cream-yellow when sufficiently advanced for
shelling, dull cream-white when fully ripe, and contain five, and
sometimes six, beans.

The variety is comparatively early. Plants, from seeds sown in spring,
will blossom in six weeks, produce pods for use in seven weeks, and
ripen in ninety days. If planted and grown in the summer months, the
crop will be ready for harvesting in eleven weeks; and sowings for the
ripe seeds may be made till the beginning of July.

Seeds white, kidney-shaped, flattened, often bent or distorted,
five-eighths of an inch long, three-eighths of an inch wide, and a
fourth of an inch thick: fifteen hundred are contained in a quart, and
will plant a drill two hundred and twenty-five feet in length, or about
two hundred hills.

The variety is productive, and the young pods are of fair quality; the
seeds are excellent, whether used green or ripe; the skin is thin; and
they are much esteemed for their peculiar whiteness, and delicacy of
flavor.

EARLY CHINA.

China. Red-eyed China.

Plant fifteen inches high, with yellowish-green, wrinkled foliage, and
white flowers; the pods are five inches long, green and straight while
young, yellowish-green as they approach maturity, yellow when fully
ripe, and contain five (rarely six) beans.

The ripe seeds are white, colored and spotted about the eye with
purplish-red, oblong, nearly cylindrical at the centre, rounded at the
ends, six-tenths of an inch long, and three-eighths of an inch thick:
sixteen hundred and fifty measure a quart, and will plant two hundred
feet of drill, or two hundred hills.

If planted early in the season, the variety will blossom in six weeks,
afford young pods for use in seven weeks, green beans in ten weeks, and
ripen in eighty-