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A sub-variety of the Common Lima, differing Green Lima, 

 principally in the pea-green color of the seeds. 



As generally found in the market, the seeds of the Com- 

 mon and Green Lima are more or less intermixed. By 

 some, the Green is considered more tender, and thought to 

 remain longer on the plants without becoming hard, than the 

 White. The habits of the plants are the same, and there is 

 no difference in the season of maturity. A careful selection 

 of seeds for planting, and skilful culture, would undoubtedly 

 give a degree of permanency to this difference in color, 

 which appears to be the principal, if not the only, point of 

 variation. 



This, like the Green, is a sub-variety of Mottled 



Lima. 



the Common Lima. The ripe seeds are dull- 

 white, or greenish-white, mottled and clouded with purple. 



In the habit of the plant, in the foliage, pods, form, or 

 size of the seeds, or season of maturity, there are no marks 

 of distinction when compared with the Common Lima. 



SCARLET-RUNNER. 



Phaseolus multiflorus. 



From South America. Though nearly allied to the Com- 

 mon Kidney-bean, it is considered by botanists a distinct 

 species, differing in its inflorescence, in the form of its pods, 

 and particularly in the fact that the cotyledons, or lobes of 

 the planted seed, do not rise to the surface of the ground in 

 the process of germination. It is, besides, a perennial plant. 

 The roots are tuberous, and, though small, not unlike those 

 of the Dahlia. 



If taken up before frost in the autumn, they may be pre- 

 served in a conservatory, or warm parlor or sitting-room, 

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