Bean culture in California . HORSEBEAN. Pig. 1.—Range of cultivation for the loading varieties in 1917. The Mack areas represent range, not acreage. BEAN CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA 293 a much earlier date than has been generally recognized. H. McNally Company,of San Francisco, advertised Lima seed in the Alia in 1855. This is the firstrecord we have of the Lima in California. As early as 1859 an unsigned articleappeared in the California Culturists urging its culture as a garden vegetable,and it was used for this purpose for at least twenty years before its possibilitiesas a field crop became recog
Bean culture in California . HORSEBEAN. Pig. 1.—Range of cultivation for the loading varieties in 1917. The Mack areas represent range, not acreage. BEAN CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA 293 a much earlier date than has been generally recognized. H. McNally Company,of San Francisco, advertised Lima seed in the Alia in 1855. This is the firstrecord we have of the Lima in California. As early as 1859 an unsigned articleappeared in the California Culturists urging its culture as a garden vegetable,and it was used for this purpose for at least twenty years before its possibilitiesas a field crop became recognized. In 1872 Mr. Robert McAlister planted Limason his ranch in the Carpinteria Valley, and they yielded abundantly without theuse of poles. Mr. Henry Fish, a neighbor, then succeeded in interesting DexterM. Ferry in the production of Lima beans for seed in that valley, and in 1875Ferry sent the first selected seed to California to be grown under contract; andit is thought that the present strain has been developed from this stock.
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