urple
at maturity), and contain five (rarely six) seeds.

The variety is comparatively late. If sown early in the season, the
plants will flower in seven weeks, afford pods for shelling in eleven
weeks, and ripen in a hundred days, from the time of planting.

The ripe seeds are of a light creamy-pink color, streaked and spotted
with a red or reddish-brown: the soft, flesh-like color, however, soon
becomes duller and darker, and at last gives place to a dull,
cinnamon-brown. They are kidney-shaped, fully three-fourths of an inch
long, and about three-eighths of an inch broad. About a thousand will
measure a quart, and will plant a row two hundred feet in length, or a
hundred and twenty-five hills. On account of the large size and
spreading habit of the plants, five seeds will be sufficient for a hill;
and, in the rows, they should be dropped five or six inches from each
other.

The young pods are inferior to most varieties in crispness, and
tenderness of texture; and are comparatively but little used. The seeds
are remarkably large, separate easily from the pods, and, green or ripe,
are remarkably farinaceous and well flavored, nearly or quite equalling
the Dwarf and Running Horticultural.

RED FLAGEOLET.

Scarlet Flageolet.

A half-dwarf, French Bean, two to three feet high; flowers pale-purple;
the pods are six inches and a half long, somewhat curved, green while
young, pale-yellow at maturity, and contain five or six seeds.

It is one of the latest of the Dwarf varieties. If sown early, the
plants will blossom in seven weeks, and pods may be gathered for use in
about nine weeks; in thirteen weeks the pods will be sufficiently
advanced for shelling, and the crop will be ready for harvesting in a
hundred and ten days. It requires the whole season for its full
perfection; but, for its young pods or for green beans, plantings may be
made to the last week in June.

The ripe beans are blood-red when first harvested, but gradually change
by age to deep-purple: they are kidney-shaped, nearly straight, slightly
flattened, three-fourths of an inch long, three-eighths of an inch
broad, and nearly the same in thickness. Fifteen hundred seeds are
contained in a quart.

The Red Flageolet yields abundantly; and the young pods are not only of
good size, but remarkably crisp and tender. If plucked as they become
fit for use, the plants continue to produce fresh pods for many weeks.
The green beans are farinaceous, and ex