ne encircling the eye. They are
egg-shaped, rather more than half an inch in length, and four-tenths of
an inch in width and depth. From the time of ripening, the soft,
flesh-like tint gradually loses its freshness, and finally becomes
cinnamon-brown; the variegations growing relatively duller and darker. A
quart contains about eleven hundred seeds, and will plant a hundred and
twenty-five hills.

The Horticultural Bean was introduced into this country from England
about the year 1825. It has now become very generally disseminated, and
is one of the most popular of the running sorts. As a string-bean, it is
of good quality; shelled in its green state, remarkably farinaceous and
well flavored; and, when ripe, one of the best for baking or stewing. It
is hardy and productive, but is liable to deteriorate when raised many
years in succession from seed saved in the vegetable garden from the
scattered pods accidentally left to ripen on the poles. To raise good
seed, leave each year a few hills unplucked; allowing the entire product
to ripen.

INDIAN CHIEF.

Wax-bean. Butter-bean. Algerian. D'Alger, of the French.

Stem six or seven feet high, with large, broad foliage and purple
flowers; the pods are five inches long, nearly as thick as broad,
sickle-shaped, green at first, but soon change to a fine, waxen,
semi-transparent cream-white,--the line marking the divisions being
orange-yellow. At this stage of growth, the color indicates approaching
maturity; but the pods will be found crisp and succulent, and are in
their greatest perfection for the table. When ripe, they are nearly
white, much shrivelled, and contain six or seven seeds.

When cultivated for the ripened product, the seed should be planted as
early in the season as the weather will permit. The plants will then
blossom in eight or nine weeks, afford young pods in about eleven weeks,
pods for shelling in thirteen or fourteen weeks, and ripen in a hundred
and twenty-four days. Plantings for green pods may be made until the
first of July.

At the time of harvesting, the seeds are deep indigo-blue, the hilum
being white. They are oblong, often shortened abruptly at the ends, half
an inch long, nearly the same in depth, and three-tenths of an inch
thick. Fourteen hundred seeds measure a quart, and will plant a hundred
and seventy-five hills.

Its fine, tender, succulent, and richly colored pods are its chief
recommendation; and for these it is well worthy of