cultivation. They are
produced in profuse abundance, and continue fit for use longer than
those of most varieties. In moist seasons, the pods remain crisp and
tender till the seeds have grown sufficiently to be used in the green
state. The ripe seeds are little used.

MOTTLED CRANBERRY.

A comparatively strong-growing, but not tall variety. The flowers are
white; the pods are short and broad, four inches and a half long,
three-fourths of an inch wide, yellow at maturity, and contain four or
five seeds.

If planted early, the variety will blossom in seven weeks, yield pods
for the table in eight or nine weeks, green beans in eleven weeks, and
ripen in a hundred days. When planted after settled warm weather, it
will ripen in ninety days.

The ripe seeds are white, the eye surrounded with a broad patch of
purple, which is also extended over one of the ends: they are of a
rounded-oval form, half an inch long, and three-eighths of an inch in
width and thickness. A quart contains fourteen hundred and fifty seeds,
and will plant a hundred and fifty hills. As the plants are of dwarfish
character, the seeds are sometimes sown in drills; a quart being
required for two hundred feet.

The Mottled Cranberry is moderately productive, and the young pods are
tender and well flavored: the seeds, while green, are farinaceous, and,
though of good quality when ripe, are but little used.

MOTTLED PROLIFIC.

Plant branching, healthy, and vigorous, six feet or more in height;
flowers purple; the pods are four inches and a half long, usually
produced in pairs, green at first, washed with purple when more
advanced, light-brown at maturity, and contain six seeds.

It is a late variety. Plantings made during the first of the season will
not produce pods for use until the last of July, or beginning of August;
but, if these are plucked as they become of suitable size, the plants
will continue in bearing until destroyed by frost.

The ripe beans are drab, thickly and minutely spotted with black, and
also distinctly marked with regular lines of the same color. They are of
an oblong form, flattened, often squarely or diagonally shortened at the
ends, nearly half an inch in length, and three-tenths of an inch in
width. A quart contains thirty-one hundred seeds, and will plant about
three hundred hills.

As a shelled-bean, in its green or ripened state, the variety has little
merit. Its recommendations are its fine, tender pods, its re