should
be planted before the 10th of June.

The ripe seeds are clear white, ovoid or egg-shaped, nine-sixteenths of
an inch long, and three-eighths of an inch thick. In size, form, or
color, they are scarcely distinguishable from those of the White Running
Cranberry. If well grown, twelve hundred seeds will measure a quart.

As a string-bean, the White Marrow is of average quality: but, for
shelling in the green state, it is surpassed by few, if any, of the
garden varieties; and deserves more general cultivation. When ripe, it
is remarkably farinaceous, of a delicate fleshy-white when properly
cooked, and by many preferred to the Pea-bean.

In almost every section of the United States, as well as in the Canadas,
it is largely cultivated for market; and is next in importance to the
last named for commercial purposes.

In field-culture, it is planted in drills two feet apart; the seeds
being dropped in groups, three or four together, a foot apart in the
drills. Some plant in hills two and a half or three feet apart by
eighteen inches in the opposite direction, seeding at the rate of
forty-four quarts to the acre; and others plant in drills eighteen
inches apart, dropping the seeds singly, six or eight inches from each
other in the drills.

The yield varies from twenty to thirty bushels to the acre, though crops
are recorded of nearly forty bushels.

YELLOW-EYED CHINA.

Plant sixteen to eighteen inches high, more branched and of stronger
habit than the Black or Red Eyed; flowers white; pods six inches long,
nearly straight, pale-green while young, cream-white at maturity, and
containing five or six seeds.

It is an early variety. When sown in May, or at the beginning of settled
weather, the plants will blossom in six weeks, afford string-beans in
seven weeks, pods for shelling in ten or eleven weeks, and ripen in
ninety days, from the time of planting. From sowings made later in the
season (the plants thereby receiving more directly the influence of
summer weather), pods may be plucked for the table in about six weeks,
and ripened beans in seventy-five days. Plantings for supplying the
table with string-beans may be made until the last week in July.

The ripe beans are white, spotted and marked about the eye with
rusty-yellow, oblong, inclining to kidney-shape, more flattened than
those of the Red or Black Eyed, five-eighths of an inch long, and
three-eighths of an inch in breadth: fifteen hundred and fifty ar