ed with purple; pods five inches and a half long,
curved or sickle-shaped, green at first, yellowish-white striped with
purple when fully ripe, and containing five seeds.

Early plantings will blossom in about six weeks, young pods may be
plucked for use in seven weeks, and the crop will ripen in eighty-two
days. If planted as late in the season as the first week in July, the
variety will generally ripen perfectly; and, when cultivated for its
green pods, plantings may be made at any time during the month.

The ripe seeds are either drab or light-slate,--both colors being
common,--marked and spotted with light-drab. In some specimens, drab is
the prevailing color. They are kidney-shaped, irregularly compressed or
flattened, nearly three-fourths of an inch long, and three-eighths of an
inch deep. A quart contains about sixteen hundred seeds, and is
sufficient for planting a row two hundred and fifty feet in length, or
two hundred hills.

This variety, as an early string-bean, is decidedly one of the best, and
is also one of the hardiest and most prolific. The pods should be
plucked when comparatively young; and, if often gathered, the plants
will continue a long time in bearing. As a shelled-bean, either in its
green or ripened state, it is only of medium quality.

The long peduncles, or stems, that support its spikes of flowers, its
stocky habit, and fine, deep-green, luxurious foliage, distinguish the
variety from all others.

WHITE FLAGEOLET.

From sixteen to eighteen inches high, of strong and branching habit.
Flowers white; pods five inches and a half long, sickle-shaped, green
while young, yellowish-white at maturity, and containing six (rarely
seven) seeds.

It is a half-early variety; blossoming in six weeks, yielding pods for
the table in seven weeks, pods for shelling in eleven weeks, and
ripening in ninety days, from the time of planting. Later plantings will
ripen in a shorter period, or in about eighty days; and, if cultivated
as a string-bean, seed sown as late in the season as the last week of
July will supply the table from the middle of September with an
abundance of well-flavored and tender pods.

The ripe bean is white, kidney-shaped, flattened, three-fourths of an
inch long, and three-tenths of an inch broad: about twenty-two hundred
are contained in a quart, and will plant a drill, or row, of two hundred
and seventy-five feet, or nearly three hundred hills.

The White Flageolet is very p