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be placed in each hill, with the eye downward, 

 and should be covered to about the same depth as 

 is directed for bush or snap beans. A quart of 

 seed will plant a hundred and fifty hills; the poles 

 should be set at the time of planting. 



They succeed best in sandy loam, which should 

 be liberally enriched with short manure in the 

 hills. Three plants in a hill are as many as should 

 be allowed to grow, and, with the vigorous growing 

 kinds on strong soil, it is better to have only two. 

 The thinning should be done when the plants 

 have become well established. They bear trans- 

 planting well, and this affords a means of filling 

 up around the poles where they miss or fail to come 

 up. They can also be started in frames and 

 transplanted to the open ground, so as to secure 

 an advanced stage of growth and earlier maturity; 

 but this method is not extensively practised. 

 The maturity of some of the later sorts can 

 be hastened by nipping off the tips of the run- 

 ners when they have reached the height of four 

 or five feet. 



Dreer's Improved Pole Lima is the best of the 

 pole Limas for the market gardener. Pods broad 

 and of good size; very productive. Also earlier 



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