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Seeds purple brown ; flowers pale lilac. 



104. Princess of Wales (Sutton). — A vigorous, little branched variety, 

 about 6 feet high, with large green foliage ; pods mostly in pairs, 6 to 7 inches 

 long, straight, flat, about | inch broad, pale green, tinged with purple in age, 

 dull, rather rough, stringy ; flesh fairly thick ; seeds large, kidney. Crop 

 rather small ; seeds ripening well. Season of ' Climbing Canadian Wonder.' 

 " Raised and introduced by Messrs. Sutton." 



105. Reselected Climbing (Carter). — Precisely similar to 104. Introduced 

 by Messrs. Carter, being " grown on from a sample received in 1904 from a 

 small gardener." 



Seeds black ; flowers lilac mauve. 



116. Fillbasket (Sutton), XXX September 9, 1918. — Vigorous, 6 to 8 

 feet high, little branched ; foliage very large, green ; pods 3 to 4 in a cluster, 

 7 to 8 inches long, very straight, flat round, £ inch wide, pale green, somewhat 

 tinged red, rather rough ; flesh fairly thick ; seeds medium in size, kidney, black 

 with white hilum. Crop fair ; late ; early acquiring parchment and tough 

 string. Raised and introduced by Messrs. Sutton. 



. — These varieties of the Lima 



The following climbing beans were also sown but failed to produce a crop. 



135. Tepiary Bean, from New South Wales, failed to germinate. 



136. Yard Long or Cuban Asparagus Bean (Burpee). — Failed to flower. 

 This plant is Vigna sesquipedalis, cultivated in Southern France, Italy, and 

 United States of America, but rarely forming its i\ feet pods in climates with 

 a cool summer like our own. 



137. Siebert's Early Lima (Thorburn) 



138. Early Jersey Lima (Thorburn) 



139. Madagascar Butter Bean (Dowson) 

 bean (Phaseolus lunatus) all flowered, and No. 138 formed a few pods, which, 

 however, did not reach any great size. The Lima bean is used to a great extent in 

 the States, where the scarlet-runner, except in the colder parts, is rarely grown, 

 both fresh and dried seeds being used. The dried seeds form the well-known 

 butter beans of commerce. The climbing forms rarely mature seeds in England, 

 and unless one or other of the numerous dwarf varieties prove more amenable 

 to our climate it will certainly be useless to attempt to grow Lima beans as 

 an open-air crop here. Those familiar with the fresh Lima bean as served in 

 the States are high in their praise of its table excellence there, and it is to be 

 regretted that it has so far proved too exacting in its requirements for our 

 climate. 



