purple
when more advanced, yellow clouded with purple when ripe, and containing
five or six seeds.

The variety is quite late, and requires most of the season for its full
perfection. Plants from early sowings will blossom in eight weeks, the
young pods will be sufficiently grown for use in ten weeks, and the crop
will ripen in a hundred and eight days. As the young pods are tender and
of excellent quality, and are also produced in great abundance, a
planting for these may be made as late as the last week in June, which
will supply the table from the last of August till the plants are
destroyed by frost.

The ripe seeds are small, glossy-black, somewhat oblong, and much
flattened: thirty-six hundred are contained in a quart, and will plant
four hundred feet of drill, or three hundred and fifty hills.

It is very productive, and deserving of cultivation for its young and
tender pods; but is of little or no value for shelling while green. The
ripened seeds are used, as the name implies, in the preparation of a
soup, which, as respects color and flavor, bears some resemblance to
that made from the green turtle.

VICTORIA.

This is one of the earliest of the Dwarf varieties. Early plantings will
blossom in six weeks, yield pods for the table in seven weeks, produce
pods of suitable size for shelling in about ten weeks, and ripen in
eighty-four days. When planted after the season has somewhat
advanced,--the young plants thus receiving the benefit of summer
temperature,--pods may be gathered for the table in about six weeks, and
the crop will ripen in sixty-three days.

Stalk fourteen to sixteen inches high, with comparatively few branches;
flowers purple; pods four and a half to five inches long, streaked and
spotted with purple, tough and parchment-like when ripe, and containing
five or six seeds.

The ripe seeds are flesh-colored, striped and spotted with purple (the
ground changing by age to dull reddish-brown, and the spots and markings
to chocolate-brown), oblong, somewhat flattened, shortened or rounded at
the ends, five-eighths of an inch long, and three-tenths of an inch
thick: fourteen hundred are contained in a quart.

The variety is remarkably early; and, on this account, is worthy of
cultivation. For table use, the young pods and the seeds, green or dry,
are inferior to many other sorts.

WHITE'S EARLY.

A remarkably hardy and vigorous variety, eighteen to twenty inches high.
Flowers white, ting