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for other uses, but he found one little plant, about ten 

 inches high, which had been cut off about an inch above 

 the ground, but which had re-rooted. It bore three pods, 

 each containing one seed. These three seeds were planted 

 in 1884, and two of the plants were dwarf, like the parent. 

 By discarding all plants which had a tendency to climb, 

 in succeeding crops, the Burpee Bush lima, as we now 

 have it, was developed. 



The Kumerle, Thorburn, or Dreer, Dwarf lima origi- 

 nated from occasional dwarf forms of the Challenger Pole 

 lima, which J. W. Kumerle, of Newark, New Jersey, 

 found growing in his field. The stock which came from 

 these selected dwarf plants was introduced by Thorburn 

 and Dreer, under their respective names. The singular 

 Barteldes Bush lima came from Colorado, and is a 

 similar dwarf sport of the old White Spanish or Dutch 

 Runner bean. Barteldes received about a peck of the 

 seed and introduced it sparingly. It attracted very little 

 attention, and as the following season was dry, Barteldes 

 himself failed to get a crop, and the variety was lost to 

 the trade. 



C annas. Few plants have shown more remarkable 

 evolution in very recent years than the cannas. At the 

 present time, the Crozy cannas so named from Crozy, 

 of Lyons, France, who has introduced the greater number 

 of them are most popular. This type is often called 

 the French Dwarf, or the Flowering Canna, and it is 

 marked by comparatively low stature, and very large 

 and showy spreading flowers in many colors, whereas 

 the cannas of former years were very tall plants, with 

 small and late dull red narrow flowers, and they were 



