are tender, and well flavored; but its remarkable
precocity must be considered its chief recommendation.

French writers describe the ripe seeds as exceeding the above
dimensions; but specimens received from Paris seedsmen correspond in
size, form, and color with the description before given.

RHODE-ISLAND BUTTER.

Plant seven feet and upwards in height, with large, broad, deep-green,
wrinkled foliage; flowers blush-white; the pods are six inches long,
nearly three-fourths of an inch broad, green while young, paler when
more advanced, cream-white and much shrivelled when ripe, and contain
seven seeds.

If planted early in the season, green pods may be plucked for the table
in nine or ten weeks, pods for shelling in twelve weeks, and the crop
will ripen in a hundred and twenty-three days. Planted early in June,
the pods will generally all ripen; but, if the planting is delayed to
the last of the month, the crop will but partially mature, unless the
season prove more than usually favorable. The vines will, however, yield
a plentiful supply of pods, and also of green beans.

The seeds, at maturity, are cream-yellow, with well-defined spots and
stripes of deep yellowish-buff. They are broad-kidney-shaped, flattened,
five-eighths of an inch long, and nearly half an inch broad. The
cream-yellow gradually changes by age to brown, and the markings become
relatively darker. Fourteen hundred seeds are contained in a quart, and
will plant a hundred and fifty hills.

The variety yields abundantly; and the large pods are tender, succulent,
and excellent for table use. The beans, in their green state, are of
good quality, though little used when ripe.

SABRE, OR CIMETER.

Stem seven or eight feet high; leaves broad, large, deep-green, and much
wrinkled or corrugated; flowers white; pods large, broad, and thin,
curved at the ends in the form of a sabre, or cimeter, green when young,
cream-white when ripe, and contain eight beans.

The variety will blossom in eight weeks, afford young pods for the table
in ten weeks, green beans in eleven weeks, and ripen in a hundred days,
from the time of planting. If sown in June, the crop will mature in
ninety days. Plantings for the green seeds may be made till the last of
June, and for the young pods to the middle of July.

The ripe seeds are clear-white, kidney-form, three-fourths of an inch
long, and three-eighths of an inch broad. Sixteen hundred are contained
in a quart, and