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.