. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 887. Leaf and part oJ raceme of velvet bean. for Profit; E. J. Hollister, Livingston's Celery Book ; W. Atlee Burpee, How to Grow Melons for Market; T. Greiner, Onions for Profit; F. S. Thomp- son, Rhubarb or Pie-Plant Culture ; J. J. H. Greg- ory, Squashes ; R. H. Price, Sweet-potato Culture for Profit; .J. W. Day, D. Cummins and A. I. Root, Tomato-Culture ; A. W. Livingston, Livingston and the Tomato. There are many other available books on the subject. An article on the transportation of truck crops will be found in Vol. IV. VELVET
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 887. Leaf and part oJ raceme of velvet bean. for Profit; E. J. Hollister, Livingston's Celery Book ; W. Atlee Burpee, How to Grow Melons for Market; T. Greiner, Onions for Profit; F. S. Thomp- son, Rhubarb or Pie-Plant Culture ; J. J. H. Greg- ory, Squashes ; R. H. Price, Sweet-potato Culture for Profit; .J. W. Day, D. Cummins and A. I. Root, Tomato-Culture ; A. W. Livingston, Livingston and the Tomato. There are many other available books on the subject. An article on the transportation of truck crops will be found in Vol. IV. VELVET BEAN. Mucuna utilis, Wall, or M. pruriens, DC, var. utilis, Bailey. Leguminosm. Figs. 887-890. By H. Harold Hume. The velvet bean is a twining plant grown for its vegetative parts and for its seeds, both of which are used for feeding. The plant is also important as a cover-crop and for green-manuring. The casual observer would probably mistake the plant in its younger stages for one of the pole lima beans {Phaseolus lunatus), but a close examination would show many well-marked differences. It has become, in recent years, an important addition to the list of field crops in the Gulf coast sections of the United States, and along the Atlantic coast as far north as the coastal plain of North Carolina. It is likewise well adapted to the climatic condi- tions of Porto Rico, Cuba, coastal Mexico, Hawaii and other tropical regions. It is in climates where it has a very long growing season that it reaches its maximum growth. It is a native of India and appears to have been introduced into America about 1872 or 1877. The vine frequently reaches seventy-five feet or more in length, branching, smooth and rather slen- der. The leaves are large, four inches by three inches, and trifoliolate. The flowers are large and produced in racemes from the axils of the leaves. In general color they are purple. The pods are about three inches long, blunt pointed, slightly constricted between the seeds
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