

New York AGrRicuLtTuRAL Exprertmmrent STATION. 695 
Of the well-tested sorts described in previous reports, the 
Triumph, Wellingtion’s Glory, Whitesmith and Roesche’s are the 
best of the large fruiting, light colored varieties, with either 
Crystal or Pearl for a smaller fruiting kind, the Crystal being 
exceptionally fine flavored. Of the red fruiting virieties, our 
preference is in favor of the Crown Bob, as the growth of the 
plants is more upright than the Industry, thus being easier to 
spray, and at this Station the fruits of the Crown Bob average 
larger than those of the Industry. 
BEANS. 
Each season a large number of new varieties, or old 
varieties under new names, appear, a few of which excel im 
some localities the older well-tested sorts, but seldom is a variety 
introduced that will supercede the old well-tested varieties, such 
as the Kidney, Refugee, etc. The most noted advance in the: 
improvement of the bean, has been made in the cultivation of the 
dwarf type of the Lima. Of this type, we now have Burpee’s 
Bush Lima and Dreer’s, or Kumerle, Bush Lima, the former 
bearing a fair number of pods, well-filled with large-sized beans 
of true Lima shape, the latter having about an equal number of 
pods, which are quite thick and containing beans of the shape 
of the well-known Dreer’s Improved Lima, a pole bean introduced 
several years ago. The Burpee’s Bush Lima was reported on 
last year as being a valuable variety where the season would be 
long enough to develop all the pods. This year, while the plants 
continued growing for a longer period and the product was 
correspondingly increased, we think that a warmer climate and 
certainly a light soil are the requisites to a profitable yield. The 
Dreer’s Bush Lima, however, seems to adapt itself to this climate 
and although of a more spreading growth than Burpee’s, is a first 
class variety, and we can see no reason why these two varieties 
should not supercede the pole varieties in all gardens. | 
No. of No. of 
pods on beans ina 
4 Beans, yield of varieties. 10 plants. 100 pods.. 
STORIE, EYELET ge lh DA tc wee eg ale 160 ATZ 
mmisurpee’s Saddle Back .............0.000- ise 165 460 
ee se eae hid ui) kd a vce weshiws a 125 372 
