. The production of the lima bean : the need and possibility of its improvement . eans; in fact, lima beans,can hardly be said to have any date whichcan be set as a date of ripening, as in the case of grain and manyother crops; for as long as the vines remain green, they continue toripen pods on the runners at increasing distances from the body of theplant, as has already been shown; consequently, the percentage of dry 240 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXPERIMENT STATION. N o <c o o \ o o o O ;oo i ^0 JO A 3VJ K/3 0*L- Id O o \ <0 2 o (Jin <* <\J (U 0 0 o 1 cvJ s) o pi< ur 10 r c 0 &
. The production of the lima bean : the need and possibility of its improvement . eans; in fact, lima beans,can hardly be said to have any date whichcan be set as a date of ripening, as in the case of grain and manyother crops; for as long as the vines remain green, they continue toripen pods on the runners at increasing distances from the body of theplant, as has already been shown; consequently, the percentage of dry 240 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXPERIMENT STATION. N o <c o o \ o o o O ;oo i ^0 JO A 3VJ K/3 0*L- Id O o \ <0 2 o (Jin <* <\J (U 0 0 o 1 cvJ s) o pi< ur 10 r c 0 < X n _L < N < -4o < rJ o i—ft —1 u t o -4 V 0)— h \ Sl / ?wv ^») c 31 cc 5 ] cr TV J <U 3 c 3 3 C 0 J C c Cr i c ) C << Bulletin 224] THE PRODUCTION OP THE LIMA BEAN. 241 «J o 1 2 » « n !T> gg * _ 4 «3 S R <^ <0 <o <0 o ? I ?SOOd A.*Q JO IWlA-J^ > & 2 e 2 a o <£ h Js t £? 5- »• o * e- £ ar 8 5 c. 242 UNIVERSITY OP CALIFORNIA—EXPERIMENT STATION. pods within a given length of the runner, at a selected date, becomesa factor which will represent the relative degree of maturity of theplant on that date, as well as, and perhaps better than, any this factor to represent the relative earliness of the plants andcorrelating, in the form of a curve, such data with that of weight ofshelled beans per plant, it will be noticed that the two elements are, ingeneral, antagonistic. It should be said, however, that this curve rep-resents only the field-selected plants. Just what the curves wouldshow if all the plants in a row, or in a part of the field, were included,
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