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variety for market. Both varieties are very pro¬ 
ductive, entirely stringless, and of superior flavor. 
Limas —Extra Early Lima .—This variety matures 
very nearly as early as the Small Lima, while the 
beans are more nearly the size of the late Lima; the 
quality is very fine and the quantity large, as it 
bears the pods in clusters of four, with four to six 
beans in a pod. 
Dreer’s Improved Lima .—This variety is early and 
very productive if measured in the green state; the 
pods are smaller than in the ordinary Lima, but the 
beans are very plump, and are so close together in 
the pods as to crowd against each other. As a green 
bean it is very early, and shells out more quarts to 
the basket of pods than the larger varieties; but the 
quality is not as fine, and in the dry state the beans 
shrivel up till they are only about the size of dry 
bush beans, and are not nearly so good as the other 
varieties. 
King of the Garden .—This is a new variety, in 
which the green beans are of unusual size and very 
fine quality. I have seen half an acre planted with 
this variety which I am sure had at that time more 
than twice the quantity of beans that could be grown 
on the same ground of the ordinary kinds; vines 
were loaded with clusters of pods seven to eight 
inches in length, and it was no rarity to see them 
with five very large beans in a pod. From its great 
productiveness and the fine quality of the beans, it 
deserves the first place among the Limas. 
