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in most, pods ; tliej have flat pod and white beans ; quality good 

 and middling" early ; as good, and probably better, than any bush 

 lima that I have ever had any experience with." "They are a veiy 

 fine lima.'' ''Were vigorous and very productive, and of good 

 flavor." "Bean stood about fifteen inches high; very vigorous, 

 13roducing a small pod, heavily filled with plump beans and very 

 i^rolific." "Did very well ; have noticed that growth is very vigor- 

 ous, with very few runners, pods containing three or four beans 

 of good size; think it quite valuable." "Veiy productive, there 

 being from tAventy to thirty pods on the vine at a time, three to 

 three and a lialf inches long, having three and four beans to the 

 pod; in shape and uniformity they were perfect — they were all 

 alike." "Size was snuill, but vigorous grower and very pro'- 

 ductive." "The lima beans have grown finely; are still vigorous 

 and bearing as well as any I have ever grown; the fruit is very 

 uniform." "Limas are very productive, vigorous plants, bearing- 

 white fruit of excellent quality." "Very good flavor." "Very 

 vigorous and exceedingly productive." "Plant is very vigorous." 

 "Vigorous and healthy; leaves very dark green, very productive; 

 beans small, with three in pod; the quality of the bean much 

 better than 'Burpee's'." "Vigorous plant, about thirty per cent. 

 inclined to climb ; exceedingly productive ; beans uniform, good 

 size, even shape, good quality." "Very productive, having three 

 small, yet perfect, beans in each pod, which shelled very easily." 

 "Fine quality, pods well filled with medium-sized beans ; very pro- 

 ductive, excellent for home garden." 



Selection Experiment with the "Jackson Wonder" Lima. 



The "Jackson Wonder" lima is a bush bean having the plants 

 of medium size with the leaves having dark, small leaflets and the 

 flowers and fruit Ijorne well up from the gTound and frequently 

 among or above the foliage. It is, in short, of the "Sieva" type, 

 the most connnon representative of which in general culture to-day 

 is the "Henderson." It is prolific, and, were it not for the color 

 of the seeds (which are varialJy marked with dark red or purplish 

 blotches), this might be one of the most desirable of lima beans. 



For some years an attempt has been made to reduce the amount 

 of red color in the seeds bv selection. In 1904, a block of plants 



