Identifier: productionoflima224shaw (find matches)
Title: The production of the lima bean : the need and possibility of its improvement
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Shaw, George Wright, 1864-1932 Sherwin, M. E. (Melvin Ernest), 1881-
Subjects: Lima bean
Publisher: Berkeley, Cal. : Agricultural Experiment Station
Contributing Library: University of California, Davis Libraries
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eeds are distinctive enough to furnish abasis on which further classification or division into varieties is made.The shape of seed1 is said to be even more constant in color or plant;habit. It is by shape of seed that buyers distinguish varieties. The roots extend to a depth of three and a half to five or six feet. Atap root penetrates nearly straight down to this depth giving off smallerand more fibrous feeding rootlets at intervals. On plants examined inVentura County, the number of rootlets did not seem to be numerous atany section of the tap root. In tropical climates the root is sometimeslarge and fleshy, and the plant lives more than one year. 1Missouri Botanical Gardens, Twelfth Report 1901. Bulletin 224) THE PRODUCTION OF THE LIMA BEAN. IM. PRODUCTION OF LIMA BEANS. Nativity. The lima bean has been supposed by different writers to have origi-nated in the East Indies, Africa, and South America. Of these threecountries to which its origination has been credited, South America is
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Fig. 6.—Showing types of lima bean seed found in an Incas cemetery, near CerroBlanco, Peru (natural size). now nearly determined as its starting point, and it is likely that itoriginated in Peru. The beans1 have been found with the mummifiedbodies of the Incas in Peru, and the plant has been found growing wildin Brazil. Fig. 7 shows a number of the beans found in an Incas ceme-tery near Cerro Blanco, Peru. Professor Bailey2 suggests that itsname is taken from the city of Lima, capital of Peru. Geographical distribution. Lima beans have been known in Europe for more than three hundredyears, but are cultivated in the United States more extensively than inany other country, being quite universally grown as a garden product.Some market gardeners of the East grow large quantities, disposing ofthem mostly as green shelled beans. California grows them extensivelyas a field crop, especially in Ventura County, supplying the markets ofthe country with the bulk of the dry shelled limas. Other

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