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manure could be used inthe spring, but that from the stable if 
spread in the fall or winter would have better effect. I would not 
advise the use of manure from the hog-pen. 
As soon as the vine makes the first start to run, poles six or eight 
feet long should be set up at an angle, so they cross four feet from 
the ground. They should be set at least one foot in the ground, and 
leaning over the hill. Cultivate at least once a week, and hoe two or 
three times. When they come up, look after the cut-worms, which 
are sometimes very destructive. Probably the use of bone or sul- 
phates spread on the ground while cultivating will increase the 
yield. The lima bean will succeed better on sandy loam, with a well 
drained subsoil; and yet the surface soil must be of sufficient depth 
to hold moisture. On clay lands the lima will do well in most sea- 
sons, but it must be understood that the vines do not yield many 
pods until September, and in many localities there are sure to be 
frosts by the first or middle of September, when in more favored 
districts, such as near large lakes, or when elevated and well drained 
and protected from northwest winds, there may be no killing frosts 
until October. With me the limavines were not killed until October 
17th, though we had frost September 24th, with mercury at 36° four 
feet from the earth. 
The dwarf varieties of the lima are not so profitable as the pole. 
Henderson's Dwarf yields the most and is the earliest. Dreer’s is 
next in yield, later, but of better quality. Burpee’s has never done 
well here, being very late. None of the true lima dwarfs are so early 
as the talllima. The King of the Garden is one of the largest of the 
limas, and a heavy bearer; Early Jersey very early; Dreer’s, or Po- 
tato, is one of the best in quality, but late; South Carolina very early, 
heavy bearer, but small; Burpee’s Black and Jackson’s Dwarf would, 
no doubt, be better adapted to general cultivation. They are ear- 
lier, but quality not quite so good as the true lima. 
OUTDOOR HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 
L. R. MOYER, MONTEVIDEO. 
Now-a-days the tendency is toward depending almost wholly on 
hardy plants for the flower garden and the border, It isa healthy 
tendency. Many of our wild flowers are very beautiful; and that it 
is becoming the fashionable thing to plant and cultivate them ought 
to be a matter of rejoicing to every right thinking person. 
However, to us who live out in western Minnesota, some of the 
advice given about planting them will have to be taken with some 
grains of allowance. The settler on the prairie will not appreciate 
the advice given him to plant asters, sunflowers, blazing stars, 
golden-rods, Boltonias, cone flowers, heleniums, artemisias and 
coreopsis. 
These plants are too common, and become tiresome through end- 
less repetition. No unprejudiced observer could fail to testify, for 
example, to the great beanty of Aster multiflorus, or Aster panicu- 
latus or Aster ptarmicoides, but the traveler on the prairie who sees 
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