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The Flat or Large-seeded Linias, which have large, very flat 

 and more or less lunate and veiny seeds, very broad pods 

 with a distinct point and broad ovate leaflets. See Figs. 107 

 and 109 for foliage ; 106, lOS and 110 for pods; and 101 for 

 the beans. 



The Potato Linias, with smaller and tumid seeds, shorter and 

 thicker pods with a less prominent point, and long ovate 

 leaflets tapering from a more or less angular base into a long 

 apex. See Figs. 112 for foliage ; 111 and 113 for pods ; and 

 101 for the beans. 



Kaighn. Willow-Leaf. Speckled. Black. Dreer. 



101. — Types of Lima beans. Natural size. 



A. The Sievas. — 



There are four dwarf varieties of the Sieva type, the Henderson, 

 Jackson, Dwarf Carolina, and iSTorthrop, Braslan and Goodwin 

 Dwarf Lima. The Sievas are valuable chiefly because of their 

 earliness. The beans are not so rich as those of the large Liraas, 

 and seem to us to be scarcely worth the growing where the latter 

 can be successfully raised. 



Last year we made an efl^ort to grow all tall Lima beans. The 

 seeds were all started in good garden soil on the 31st of May, and 

 kept in very clean cultivation throughout the season. Amongst 

 the pole or running Limas, the following in our test, are Sievas : 



1. Small Carolina or Sieva Lima. — An early variety which 

 began to bloom July 29, and ripened its crop before frost. Green 

 beans were ready for the table late in August. The beans are 



