Growing fava beans is like four crops in one: flavorful fresh pods, both fresh and dry beans, and –surprise! – delicious greens to eat fresh or add to cooked dishes.

MR. HEBER SMITH'S observations on the relation of the micropyle to the radicle in the seed of Vicia faba (NATURE, February 4, p. 400) are quite correct. It is surprising that the structure and ...

THE text-book statements on the relation of the micropyle to the radicle are entirely wrong so far as I have been able to observe. If the testa be carefully removed it will be found to have two ...