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contained in a quart, and will plant two hundred feet of drill, or a
hundred and fifty hills. The plants are large and spreading, and most
productive when not grown too closely together.

The Yellow-eyed China is one of the most healthy, vigorous, and
prolific of the Dwarf varieties; of good quality as a string-bean; and,
in its ripened state, excellent for baking, or in whatever manner it may
be cooked. It also ripens its seeds in great perfection; the crop being
rarely affected by wet weather, or injured by blight or mildew.

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POLE OR RUNNING BEANS.

As a class, these are less hardy than the Dwarfs, and are not usually
planted so early in the season. The common practice is to plant in hills
three feet or three and a half apart; though the lower-growing sorts are
sometimes planted in drills fourteen or fifteen inches apart, and bushed
in the manner of the taller descriptions of pease.

If planted in hills, they should be slightly raised, and the stake, or
pole, set before the planting of the seeds. The maturity of some of the
later sorts will be somewhat facilitated by cutting or nipping off the
leading runners when they have attained a height of four or five feet.

CASE-KNIFE.

This variety, common to almost every garden, is readily distinguished by
its strong and tall habit of growth, and its broad, deep-green,
blistered leaves. The flowers are white. The pods are remarkably large;
often measuring nine or ten inches in length, and nearly an inch in
width. They are of a green color till near maturity, when they change to
yellowish-green, and, when fully ripe, to cream-white. A well-formed pod
contains eight or nine seeds.

Early plantings will blossom in seven or eight weeks, yield pods for
stringing in about ten weeks, green beans in twelve or thirteen weeks,
and ripen in a hundred and five days. Later plantings, with the
exclusive advantage of summer weather, will supply string-beans in
seven weeks, pods for shelling in eight or nine weeks, and ripen in
ninety-six days. Plantings for the green beans may be made till nearly
the middle of July; and, for the young pods, to the 25th of the month.

The ripe seeds are clear white, kidney-shaped, irregularly flattened or
compressed, often diagonally shortened at one or both of the ends,
three-fourths of an inch long, and three-eighths of an inch deep. A
quart contains about fifteen hundred seeds, and will plant a hundr