will plant a hundred and sixty hills.

The Sabre Bean is remarkably productive; the young pods are crisp and
tender, excellent for table use, and good for pickling; the seeds, green
or dry, are farinaceous, and of delicate flavor and appearance.

In height and foliage, size and form of the pods, color and size of the
ripe seeds, it resembles the Case-knife. The principal difference
between the varieties is in the earlier maturity of the Sabre.

SOISSONS. _Vil._

Introduced from France. Stem six feet or more high; foliage large,
broad, wrinkled; flowers white; the pods are eight inches long,
three-fourths of an inch broad, sword-shaped, yellowish-green when near
maturity, yellowish-white when ripe, and contain six or seven seeds.

The variety requires the whole season for its full perfection. If
planted early, it blossoms in nine weeks, produces young pods in eleven
weeks, and ripens off in gradual succession till the plants are
destroyed by frost. If cultivated for its young pods, plantings may be
made to the last week in June.

The ripe seeds are remarkably large,--often measuring nearly an inch in
length and half an inch in breadth,--pure, glossy-white, kidney-shaped,
and generally irregularly compressed. Seven hundred are contained in a
quart, and will plant about eighty hills.

The young pods, while quite young and small, are crisp and tender, and
the ripe seeds are farinaceous and well flavored. It is also an
excellent sort for shelling in the green state; but the plants are not
hardy, and thrive well only in warm soil and sheltered situations. Under
ordinary culture, many of the pods are imperfect, and frequently contain
but two or three seeds.

WHITE CRANBERRY.

Stem five or six feet high; flowers white; the pods are five inches and
a half long, pale-green while young, striped and marbled with red when
near maturity, yellowish-buff when ripe, and contain five or six beans.

It is not an early variety. From plantings made at the usual season,
young pods may be gathered in about nine weeks, pods for shelling green
in twelve weeks, and ripened beans in a hundred and five days. For
stringing, or for shelling in a green state, the variety may be planted
the first of July; but, in ordinary seasons, few of the pods will reach
maturity.

The ripe seeds are white, egg-shaped, sometimes nearly spherical, half
an inch long, and three-eighths of an inch in breadth and thickness. In
size, form, and color, the