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The following are the varieties usually grown for culinary 
use : — 
1. Early Butch Case-Knife. — This is a productive bearer, 
of fine flavor, and may be used as snaps or shelled. It is well 
adapted for winter. 
2. Sewee, Sieva, Saba or Carolina Bean. — This variety 
resembles the Lima bean in all its habits, but is smaller and 
more hardy. It yields profusely, and is well adapted for a 
southern climate. 
3. Large Lima or Butter Bean. — This variety, so much 
esteemed on our tables, is of very tender habit, not bearing 
the slightest frost. The seed is apt to rot in the ground when 
planted very early; and, unless the eye is placed downward, it 
is liable not to come up at all. It runs very high, and yields 
abundantly until killed by frost or is dried up by the sun. 
4. Scarlet Runner. — This variety is highly ornamental from 
the color and profusion of its flowers, and is very delicate in 
its flavor when cooked, either shelled, or in the pod. In the 
Middle and Southern States, it bears so sparingly in most sea- 
sons, that it is scarcely worth cultivating for culinary use. 
5. White Dutch Runner. — This runner does not differ much 
from the preceding variety, except in the color of the flowers 
and seeds, which are white. 
6. While Cranberry. — This bean is very tender, and of a 
rich flavor, when green ; but it is less productive than the Red 
variety. 
7. Red Cranberry. — This variety is of similar habit as the 
White, and is more prolific, but less tender when green. 
Cultivation. — As a general rule, all the above-named va- 
rieties may be planted at the period of the flowering of the 
peach-tree (see table on page 8). Those adapted for the 
regions south of St. Mary's, in Georgia, may be planted in 
every month in the year. Occasionally, the less hardy kinds 
will be cut off by damp weather or frost ; if so, replant. 
The soil should be rich and warm, and raised above the 
surface in slightly-elevated beds. The preferable mode of 
planting is in hills, about three feet apart, treated in almost 
every respect like Indian corn. In planting the large-seeded 
varieties, as the "Lima," the following precaution should be 
strictly observed, namely, place the eye of the bean downward; 
otherwise, it will not be liable to come up. The " Runners" 
should be planted with the eyes up. At the last hoeing, rods 
