varieties. It is well adapted for early planting, and is
extensively grown by market-gardeners as an early string-bean. The young
pods are comparatively tender, and of good quality; and, if gathered as
they become of suitable size, the plants will continue to yield them in
great abundance. The shelled-beans, green or dry, are less esteemed, and
considered inferior to many other varieties.

NEWINGTON WONDER.

A healthy, vigorous variety, with deep-green foliage and bright-purple
flowers. The plants often produce slender, barren runners, eighteen
inches or two feet in length; but they are generally of short duration,
and the variety is treated as other Dwarfs.

The pods are small and straight; usually about four inches long, and
nearly half an inch broad. They are pale-green at first; and afterwards
change to yellowish-white, tinted or washed with bright pink. At
maturity they are dusky-drab, sometimes clouded or shaded with purple,
and contain six or seven beans.

The ripe seeds are pale brownish-drab, with a yellowish-brown line about
the eye; oblong, flattened, shortened at the ends, nearly half an inch
long, and a fourth of an inch deep: about thirty-six hundred are
contained in a quart. As the seeds are comparatively small, and the
plants of spreading habit, this amount of seeds will plant a row four
hundred feet in length, or four hundred hills.

The variety is not early, and, when cultivated for its seeds, should
have the benefit of the whole season; though, with favorable autumnal
weather, the crop will ripen if planted the middle of June. Spring
plantings will blossom in eight weeks, produce young pods in nine weeks,
and ripen in a hundred and six days.

The Newington Wonder is remarkably prolific; and, in its manner of
growth and general character, resembles the Tampico or Turtle-soup. As a
string-bean, it is one of the best. The pods, though not large, are
crisp, succulent, and tender, and produced in great abundance throughout
most of the season. The seeds, in their green state, are small, and of
little value for the table: when ripe, they afford an excellent
substitute for the Tampico or Turtle-soup; the difference, aside from
the color, being scarcely perceptible.

The Newington Wonder of English and French authors appears to be, in
some respects, distinct from the American variety. It is described as
very dwarf, about a foot high, early and productive; pods dark-green,
moderately long, not broad,