BEAN 



BEAUMONTIA 



137 



Of all pole Beans, the Limas have undoubtedly the 

 greatest economic value. They enjoy a deserved popu- 

 larity, and are usually firown with profit by the market- 

 gardener. The varieties might be classed in three types, 

 — that of the Large Lima, the Dreer Lima, and the 

 Small Lima or Sieva. Each of them has a number of 

 sub-varieties or strains, and appears in both pole and 

 bush form. The old Large Lima (Fig. 193) is a very 

 large, flat Bean, and yet largely grown for main crop. 

 To the same type belong Extra-early Jersey, King of 

 the Garden, and others. The pods of these are very 

 large, and the Beans in them somewhat flattened. The 

 dwarf form of this type is known as Burpee's Bush 

 Lima. The Dreer Lima of both forms is appreciated 

 especially for its high quality. The seeds are more 

 roundish and crowded close together in the pods, the 

 latter being much smaller than those of the Large Lima. 

 The seeds of these two types are light colored, with a 

 greenish tinge, but the Large Lima is also represented 

 by red and speckled (red-and-white) sports. The Small 

 Lima, or Sieva, with its dwarf form, Henderson's Bush 

 Lima, seems to be hardier and earlier than the two 

 larger types, but pod and Bean are quite small. The 

 color of this Bean is nearly clear white, but there is also 

 a speckled sub-variety of it. Wherever there is a place 

 for the Sieva, its bush form will be appreciated. The 

 bush forms of the two larger types, however, are not 

 uniformly productive enough to take the place of the 

 pole forms entirely. The latter will often be found 

 preferable where a long season of continuous bearing is 

 desired. For further notes on Lima Beans, dwarf and 

 pole, see Bailey, Bulls. 87 and 115, Cornell Exp. Sta. 



Beans are easily forced under glass, in a temperature 

 suitable for tomatoes. They may be grown either in 

 pots or beds. The bush varieties, as Sion House, are 

 preferred. Keep them growing, and look out for red 

 spider. See Bailey, Forcing-Book ; and for the forcing 

 of pole Beans, see Rane, Bull. 62, N. H. Exp. Sta. See 

 Forcing. 



Three other members of the Bean tribe might be men- 

 tioned in this connection ; namely, the Black Bean or 

 Cow-pea of the South, the .Japanese Soy Bean, and the 

 English or Broad Bean. The Cow-pea takes in some 

 measure the same place in the southern states that red 

 clover takes at the North, being used both as stock food 

 and as a green-manure crop. There are many varieties 

 of it, early and late, some of strictly bush habit and 

 some producing long runners. (See Cow-pea.) Of 

 greater value for the same purposes, north of New Jer- 

 sey, seems to be the Japanese Soy Bean, which is early 

 enough to come to maturity almost anywhere in the 

 United States. Its foliage is rather thin or open, how- 

 ever, which impairs its value for green-manuring. The 

 dry Bean constitutes one of the richest vegetable foods 

 known, and its flavor seems unobjectionable to all kinds 

 of stock. Sow 1 bus. to the acre. Similar to this in value 

 is the English Broad Bean, several varieties of which, 

 as the Broad Windsor, the Horse Bean, etc., are grown 



tention in the cooler parts of the country. Being about 

 as hardy as peas, they may be planted much earlier than 

 would be safe for ordinary Beans. The Windsor is used 



194. Dolichi 



Yard-long Bean. 



and are popular in England and in some parts of the 

 European continent. In most parts of the United States 

 they are scarcely known, and in none generally culti- 

 vated. Only a few of our seedsmen list them in their 

 otherwise complete catalogues. Yet they are a decidedly 

 interesting group of plants, and worthy of greater at- 



195. Soy Bean— Glycine hispida (X J^). 



by people in England much in the same way that we 

 use Lima Beans ; but the latter are so much better 

 that in the United States we have no need of plant- 

 ing the former as a table vegetable. _ , , 



" T. Greiner. 



BEARBERKY. See Arctostaphylos. 



BEAR'S BREECH. See Acanthus. 



BEAUCARNEA, See JVoUiia. 



BEAUMONTIA (after Mrs. Beaumont, of Bretton Hall, 

 Yorksliirc, Kiif;.). Aiiiicjiin'irrni. A genus of three East 

 ludian tries or tall climbers, with very large, white, 

 fragrant, bell-shaped fls. in terminal cymes. The genus 

 is more nearly allied to the familiar greenhouse 

 shrub Traehelospernium jaaminoide:^ than to the splen- 

 did tropical climbers in Allamanda and Dipladenia. 

 B.grandifJora has been neglected of late, presumably 

 because it needs so much room. It should be planted out 

 in the strong, fibrous, loamy soil of a warm house, as it 

 rarely succeeds in pots. It is best trained to the roof, as 

 full light is necessary for flowering, if not for growth. 

 The shoots may be thinned if the large Ivs. cast too 

 much shade on the plants beneath. The wood should be 

 well ripened to produce an abundance of winter bloom. 

 . The fls. are produced on the growth of the previous 

 season. After flowering, the plant should be severely 

 pruned to produce lateral shoots for the next season's 

 bloom, In its native country, this vine climbs over very 

 tall trees. 



grandlHdra, Wall. Lvs. obovate, cuspidate, wavy 

 margined ; sepals 5, large, ovate, wavy, pink-tipped : 

 corolla tube veined with green, the limb 5-cleft. B.M. 

 3213. Gn. 45, p. 138 ; 49, p. 314. J.H. III. 28: 243. 



