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GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 



adapted for this purpose, accumulating vast quantities 

 of nitrogen and leaves an immense deposit of vegetable 

 matter. It is necessary, however, to constantl}^ keep 

 it cut away from the trees or it would soon climb up 

 and smother them. The climbing power of this vine 



Velvet Bean, fruits. 



is somethino- remarkable. An instance is known to 

 the writer where beans planted at the foot of a fifty- 

 foot windmill tower climbed to the top by fall and 

 had to be cut down to prevent clogging the wheel. 

 The velvet bean does not produce flowers and fruit 

 until very late in the fall. In Florida a large crop 



