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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



July. 1907 



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Green Lima Beans 



" I "HE lima bean which remains green in 

 -*- the dried state, is a much desired 

 article in the seed trade, and for ten years 

 or more I have been trying to establish a 

 strain of the large lima bean which would 

 retain the green coloring in the dried bean. 

 This color is not only desirable in the dried 

 bean but if a variety of this character could 

 be established, the young beans as gathered 

 and shelled in the green state would be 

 more uniform in color and more attractive 

 in appearance. 



Any one who has grown many lima beans 

 is familiar with the fact that in gathering the 

 green beans, or beans in the fresh state, during 

 the summer months, in all the large varieties 

 there will be a greater or less percentage of 

 beans which are almost pure white in color 

 and which detract from the general appear- 

 ance of the dish when served on the table. 

 In my own garden it is my practice to dis- 

 card all these white beans when shelling the 

 beans from the pod for use, in this way 

 securing an even color and I think a more 

 tender and better flavored bean. 



In my efforts to secure a variety which 

 will have uniformly green seed, I have 

 procured stock at different times from growers 

 who have selected the greenest seed for a 

 number of years. This has been done by 

 several market gardeners in the trucking 

 sections of Southern New Jersey, but as soon 

 as I attempt to grow these selected strains 

 on a commercial scale, the character of the 

 seed rapidly deteriorates and although these 

 green-seeded limas are offered by a number 

 of seedsmen, I do not think that any of them 

 can be depended upon to come uniformly 

 true to the green colored beans. 



Challenger or Dreer's Lima bean, which 

 is also known as the Potato Lima has a 

 distinctly greenish tinge in the dry bean, but 

 I do not consider it a good variety for table 

 use in the green state, for while the beans are 

 plump and easily shelled they have a dry and 

 somewhat mealy character when cooked 

 which is not nearly as. good as the flavor of 

 the large, flat lima. The Mastodon Lima 

 comes very uniformly with the green color. 



Penn. E. D. Darlington. 



Tallest Hollies in the North 



To the Editor: 



In " All the Hollies Worth Growing," in 

 the December, 1906, Garden Magazine you 

 state that the tallest trees of American holly 

 you know of in the North are at Mt. 

 Kisco, N. Y., and about ten feet high. There 

 is a very good specimen at Perth Amboy, 

 N. J. (two blocks from the Tottenville ferry 

 and just off Smith Street), which is fully 

 thirty feet high and twelve feet in diameter. 



I have to-day (April 28th) seen near Ham- 

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 trees, some of them growing wild, and a few 

 with large clusters of perfectly bright and 

 plump berries. 



Several of these trees, along the Boulevard 

 at Rockaway within 300 feet of the ocean, 

 are at least thirty feet high. 



Long Island. Lyman J. Fisher. 



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