THE LIMA AND THE BUTTER BEAN. 
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Butter Bean. 
These Lima and Butter beans were premium specimens of those varieties, which were exhibited at 
the Horticultural Exhibition of the Albany and Rensselaer Counties Society. The first was a very fine 
and perfect sample of the variety. 
The Butter bean is a beautiful bush bean, having; a fine blue color, and, as its name implies, is very 
rich and nutritive. It is not extensively cultivated, but well deserves to replace some of the older varie¬ 
ties. The plant, it will be observed, breaks up into numerous varieties, each of which is marked by dis¬ 
tinct characters. In fact the varieties of bean are more distinct than those of other plants. 
