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if any, should have been done in the previous year. 

 Apply nitrogen for a quick start, but not afterward, 

 and in the hills of the tall varieties put compost, to 

 retain the moisture. Give com- 

 mercial fertilizers rich in potash 

 and phosphoric acid, 



Plant pole Limas eye 

 down, depth two inches. 

 Distances, culture, poles, 

 thinning and picking as for 

 kidney beans, above. 



Mulch the dwarfs, to keep 

 the pods from the ground. 

 Dried pods can be picked, 

 and the beans kept for win- 

 ter use. 



(4) The Dolichos Bean in 

 its varieties (one a dwarf, the 

 best -known the Asparagus 

 and Yardlong beans) are lit- 

 tle offered by our seedsmen. 

 The chief interest in these 



Fig. 22. Henderson's Dwarf Lima ^eans j g t h e j r ver y long, edi- 

 Bean. The best Lima for north- J 



em culture. ble pods ; they are not in any 



way superior to the common string beans. 



Culture is the same as for kidney beans. 



(5) The Soy Bean, or Soja Bean (Glycme hispida\ 

 grown chiefly as a forage plant, may be used as a shell 



