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REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT. 
BEANS. 
The beans under trial comprised forty-six names of dwarf or bush 
beans, twenty-four names of pole beans, ten Lima beans, the English 
Windsor bean, the China bean, the Soja bean, and several varieties 
of the Southern Cow pea. Our remarks, however, are confined to our 
garden beans. 
The Lima beans were planted on June 3, the remainder of the pole 
beans on June 5,and the bush beans on June 6. ‘The soil was a heavy 
clay without fertilizer of any kind. ‘The bush beans were planted on 
soil that had not been plowed since the previous fall, and the soil on 
which the pole beans were planted was badly infested with quack grass 
(Triticum repens). 
The following tables show the date of vegetation, blooming, edible 
maturity, seed maturity, with the number of days required for each 
variety, and figures of yields. Those included in braces have been 
classed as identical in the description following. The numbers refer 
to the numbers under which the variety is described. 
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