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Comparison. — Extensively grown in a few localities. Used chiefly for 

 snap purposes, especially for the pickling trade. Black Kentucky Wonder is 

 a more desirable late sort. The pod is similar to Kentucky Wonder, but 

 much more slender and without the backward curve at stem end so char- 

 acteristic of Kentucky Wonder. Plate V, fig. 63; VII, fig. i6; XV, fig. 9. 



Worcester Mammoth 



Syno7iyms. — Mammoth Podded Horticultural, Worcester, Hampden, Mug- 

 wump, King Horticultural. 



Historv. — Originated at Worcester, Mass., and introduced in 1895 by 

 W. W. Rawson & Co. 



Description. — Plant large, climbs well, very compact, very vigorous, 

 slightly susceptible to disease, midseason, moderately productive. Branches 

 wholly green. Leaflets very large, very long, flat, very smooth, very dark 

 green. Flowers pink. Snap pods very large, 6 to 7 inches long, broad, 

 very slightly curved, very flat, very long ill-defined point, six-seeded, dark 

 green, strictly stringless, slightly fibrous, moderately fleshy, brittle, coarse- 

 grained, of good quality, attractive. Green-shell pods very much swollen, 

 oval in cross section, much depressed between beans, light green, much 

 splashed with bright red, very attractive. Green-shell beans very large, 

 streaked with pink, attractive. Dry seeds (1.7 x 1.3 x i cm.) broadly oval 

 in outline, round-oval in cross section, pinkish fawn, irregularly spotted 

 and streaked with dark red. 



Comparison. — Little grown except in New England. Largest podded, 

 largest seeded and most showy of the Horticultural class. Not sufficiently 

 productive for general market use. Suitable for both snap and green-shell 

 purposes. Somewhat resembles Early Horticultural but pods are much 

 larger and more swollen at the green-shell stage. Plate III, fig. ei ; VII, 

 fig. d2; XV, fig. 8. 



THE LIMA BEAN 



There are two well-defined groups of Limas in cultivation in 

 this country, the Sieva, Carolina, or Small Lima {Pliascolus luiia- 

 tus) and the Large or Flat Lima (P. lunatus iiiacrocarpus). Li 

 the latter group is included the class known as the Potato Lima. 



Phaseolus lunatus, L.^ 

 (Small or Sieva Lima) 

 Linnaeus believed that this bean came originally from Bengal, 

 but it is now believed to be of tropical American origin. Very 

 widely cultivated and especially common in warm countries. Earlier, 

 hardier, and more productive than the Large Lima. Plant annual, 

 climbing or dwarf, frail, slender branches ; leaflets moderately 

 small, ovate, acuminate (one garden variety has linear-lanceolate 

 leaflets), thin, smooth, glossy, dark green; flowers small white or 

 greenish white, in axillary racemes ; pods 2 to 4 inches long, 

 i^ to ^ inch broad, curved, well-defined point or spur, 2 to 4 



^Phaseolus lunatus, Linn. So. PI. 724 (1753). — 3:1031 (ed. Willd) (1800). 

 Miller, Gard. Diet. (1807).— DC. Prodr. 2:393 (1825).— Maycock, Fl. Barb. 

 293 (1830).— Bcnth. Fl. Bra.s. 15:181 (1859).— Irish, Mo. Bot. Gard. Rpt. 

 12:88 (1901). — Bailey, Cyclop. Am. Hort. 4:1295 (1906). 



