February 13, 1895.] 



Garden and Forest. 



65 



Lima, Henderson's and Burpee's, were sown in tlie same 

 bench on January 2d. Under summer outdoor cultivation tlie 

 Bush Limas are bushy in growth and seldom more than eigli- 

 teen inches or two feet high. In the greenhouse, however, 

 Burpee's Lima has become a true runner, and with few lateral 

 shoots the main stems are already six feet in height, and are 

 now developing a few flower-clusters toward the top. Plants 



benches, and for some reasons pot-culture is to be preferred. 

 The plants in pots were sown December 5th, and we have 

 been picking marketable pods from them since January 25th. 

 The bench plants are just coming into bloom, and even with 

 the increase of light and sunshine three weeks will probably 

 elapse before they will be ready to pick. In the matter of 

 earliness the plants in pots clearly have the advantage. The 



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of Henderson's, on the other hand, although sown at the same 

 time, are only twelve inches high, and are showing some incli- 

 nation to run, with no indication of flowers or branches. I am 

 unable to account for this difference in these two varieties, and 

 their change in habit of growth is likewise puzzling. 



With the French, or Dwarf Kidney Beans, we have been 

 more successful. These have been grown in pots and on 



pots are convenient since they can be used to fill small vacant 

 spaces which occur in most greenhouses from time to time, 

 such as otherwise might go to loss. We use any ordinary 

 potting soil that may be handy, loam largely predominating, 

 and seven-inch or eight-inch pots, and sow about a dozen 

 seeds in each pot. Later on the plants may be thinned out to 

 half that number ; but, as seedling Beans in greenhouses are 



