The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-24
The Dwarf Lima Beon,.

Prof. Bailey of the Cornell AGRICULTURAL
experiment station has been making a
study of the different varieties of the So
called Dwarf Lima Beans, and has pub
lished his observations in Bulletin No. 81
of that station. Histories of the varieties
as full as possible are given, and also their
botanical characteristics, and whoever
wishes to have a full understanding in re-
gard to them should supply himself with
the bulletin. Our readers will be most in
terested with the following conclusions,
which have been reached. and which are
here quoted from the bulletin:
l am convinced that these beans, as a
class, are very valuable. Their great merit
is earliness. They are from two weeks to
a month earlier than the tall varieties
from which they came. Their productive
ness has not been reduced in proportion
to the reduction in size of the plants. so
that l believe il is possible in the north to
secure greater total yield per acre from the
dwarfs than from the pole varieties, see
ing that the plants require less room. They
are also much cheaper to grow. They re-
quire no poles. In Central New York, the
tall Lima beans are always a precarious
crop, on account of their lateness and the
liability of being injured by midsummer
drouths at the time when the pods are
setting. The earliest varieties of these
dwarf Limas are those which are derived
from the Sieva type, as Henderson and
jackson. The following field notes of the
varieties indicate our experience with
them:
Henderson's Bush Lma.-Very dwarf,
with only an occasional plant producing a
feeble tendency toward a climbing stem,
requiring no more space than field beans;
plant compast, bushy, very productive
and continuing long in bearing: very early;
beans small, fiat, clear white; quality good.
A patch planted on the 9th of June last
year, was bearing well the second week
in August, Notwithstanding the almost I'M
precedented drouth. An occasional plant
produced speckled beans. This seems to
be the best variety for earliness, and its
great productiveness and habit OF long
bearing are additional recommendations.
The pods also escape the mildew, which
is often serious on the late, thick-podded
sorts. While good in quality, il lacks the
buttery and rich quality of the true. LiInas.
Jackson.-This variety, commonly known
as Jacksons Wonder differs from the
Henderson in having brown-speckled
beans, and is less dwarf and compact
habit, and is possibly a little later In
productiveness it even eXcels the Hender-
son. All of the vines in our plantation
have made a diffuse, sprawling growth,
two feet long. On account of this diffuse
habit and the color of the beans, 1t has
seemed to us to be less desirable than
some other varieties. Its great product
iveness, however, is a strong recommen-
dalton.
Northrup, Braslan and Goodwin Dwarf
Lima l know little about. l have tried
il only a single season in small way.
1t is apparently much like the former
varieties, but the beans are uniformly
dun-colored.
Thorburn or Kumerle Dwarf Lima
Very bushy and dwarf bean, with no ten
dency to climb; leaflets thick, long-ovate
or lance-ovate, more or less deltoid at
base; pods thick and large; beans white,
tumid, of excellent quality; rather late,
and moderately productive. With us
seeds planted June 6 began to give edible
beans the first and second weeks in Sep
TENDER. The plants are stout, ten to
eighteen inches high. Many persons con-
slider the potato Limas-of which there is
a dwarf type-to be superior to the Large
White Lima in quality. Dreer Bush
Lima is the same, having been intro
duced from Mr.. Kumerle's stock.
Burpee Bush Bean.-A true Lima bean.
Very dwarf although somewhat taller
and wider growing than Thorburn (six-
teen to thirty inches high, with little
or no tendency to climb; leaflets broadly
ovate; pods large and thick; beans as
large as pole Limas very fat and veiny,
of the highest quality; season medium to
late, beginning to ripen about two or
three weeks after the Henderson; pro-
ductive On our grounds this has been
the best single variety of dwarf Lima.
With us last year the Burpee was
rather earlier than the Thorburn, although