;
yellowish-white, shrivelled, and contorted, when ripe; and contain five
or six seeds.

Its season is intermediate. If planted early, the variety will blossom
in seven weeks, yield young pods in nine weeks, green beans in eleven
weeks, and ripen in ninety-five days. In favorable seasons, the crop
will ripen if the seeds are planted the last of June; but, for the young
pods or for green beans, plantings may be made to near the middle of
July.

Seeds clear, deep-purple, the hilum white, round-ovoid, slightly
compressed, half an inch long, and about three-eighths of an inch in
depth and thickness. Fourteen hundred and fifty seeds are contained in a
quart, and will plant a hundred and fifty hills.

It is a hardy and productive variety, principally grown as a
string-bean. The pods are succulent and tender; and these qualities are
retained to a very advanced stage of growth, or until quite of suitable
size for shelling. The dark color of the bean, which is to some extent
imparted to the pods in the process of cooking, is by some considered an
objection; and the White Cranberry, though perhaps less prolific, is
preferred. As a shelled-bean, it is of good quality in its green state;
but, in its ripened state, little used, though dry and farinaceous.

RED ORLEANS.

Scarlet Orleans.

Five to six feet high; flowers white; the pods are sickle-shaped, five
inches long, green when young, often tinged with red when more advanced,
yellow at full maturity, and contain five or six seeds, packed closely
together.

It is one of the earliest of the running varieties. Spring plantings
will blossom in about seven weeks, afford pods for the table in eight
weeks, green beans in eleven weeks, and ripen in eighty-five-days.
Planted later in the season, pods sufficiently large for stringing may
be gathered in six weeks, and the crop will begin to ripen in about
seventy days. As a string-bean, the variety may be planted until the
first of August.

At the time of harvesting, the ripe seeds are of a bright blood-red
color, but change rapidly by age to brownish-red. They are of an oblong
form, often squarely or diagonally shortened at the ends by contact with
each other in the pods, half an inch long, and three-tenths of an inch
broad. A quart, which contains nearly twenty-four hundred seeds, will
plant about two hundred and seventy-five hills.

The Red Orleans is quite prolific, and a desirable sort for soups and
stews. The young pods