New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 317. 
Cylinder Ivory Pod.— Height of plant fourteen inches ; foliage, 
light green; flowers small, purple ; pods usually single, strongly - 
recurved, three and a half to four inches long, pale yellow when 
string bean; beans long, deep black; identical with Cylinder 
Black Wax (Hen.). 
Dwarf Lima (N., B. & G. Co.).— Height of plant eighteen inches 
to three feet, should be bushed ; foliage, deep green, leaves same 
as bush beans; flowers white; pods borne from singly to four, 
flat, slightly recurved, five to six inches long. 
Kumerles Dwarf Lima.— Height of plant ten to twelve inches ; 
foliage marbled green, true Lima leaf; flowers very small, white ; 
beans large, thick, meaty, a little larger than Dreer’s Improved, 
but more of old Lima shape; season late, not ripe when picked 
October second. 
New Bush Lima.— Height of plant ten to twelve inches ; foliage 
rich green; flowers very small, white; beans very small, but few 
ripe when harvested October second; seems to be identical with 
Dwarf Carolina. | 
; Brans — Lima. 
Early Jersey Lima.— Height eight to ten feet; foliage, light 
green; flowers small, white; beans large, flat, showy, matured 
most of crop at harvest, October first. 
Karly Morning Lima.— Height of plant eight to ten feet; foli- 
aye, light green; flowers small, white; smaller than Early Jersey 
and not ripe at harvest, October first. 
Giant Red Wax.— Height ten to twelve feet; foliage, light 
green, leaf same as bush bean; flowers yellowish white; pods 
mottled; beans short, thick, bright red; too late to ripen this 
season. 
New Golden Andalusian Wax.— Height eight feet; foliage, dark 
green, leaf same as bush bean; pods usually in pairs, long; beans 
half round, very thick ; late. 
- Ehode Island Crease Back.— Height of plant ten feet; foliage, 
dark green, leaf same as bush bean; pods half long; beans long, 
thick, white, thickly spotted and veined with drab. 
fiuby of Erfurt.— Plants made a very weak growth and became 
diseased early in the season; flowers light pink; pods borne 
singly, slightly recurved, three to four inches long, ruby color; 
beans kidney shaped, dull white, veined with purple. 
