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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 



one thousand dollars to any one who would 

 tell us where this spurious comb honey was 

 manufactured. Every one has been obliged 

 to give up— there is no such thing, and 

 there never was. Will you not at least 

 briefly correct the wrong you have done? 

 Bee-keepers are as anxious to put down 

 fraud and adulteration as are the cheese 

 and butter makers ; but they do not like to 

 have their industry damaged by having the 

 people prejudiced by false statements like 

 the above. 



THE GREAT NOVELTY OP 1889. 



A LIMA BEAN THAT GROWS ON BUSHES, AND DOES 

 NOT REQUIRE POLES. 



ip LTHOUGH I have never seen this new 

 k lima bean except in a dry state, yet I 

 | am so well satisfied of its excellence 

 ^ that I purchased 1000 25-cent pack- 

 ages. In regard to the origin, we ex- 

 tract the following from the February issue 

 of the American Agriculturist : 



The history of the new bush lima bean is rather 

 interesting. As far as can be traced it originated 

 in the mountains of Bedford County, Va., in a lo- 

 cality known as the " Peaks of Otter," in the gar- 

 den of a humble colored man, who was bright 

 enough to notice a single plant that formed a bush 



delicious lima beans, and is at least two 

 weeks earlier than any of the climbing 

 limas, being fit for market about the middle 

 of July, in York State, and from that on un- 

 til frost. The only thing against it that I 

 know of is its small size compared with the 

 limas that grow on poles, the dry beans in 

 the packets being about the size of those 

 shown in the cut, only after being soaked in 

 water over night. Perhaps, in a green 

 state they are considerably larger. We are 

 not permitted to sell them for less than 25 

 cents each packet ; 5 tor 81.00, or 12 for 

 $2.00. A packet contains about 25 beans. 

 We are permitted, however, to offer it as a 

 premium as follows : We will send a packet 

 to every present subscriber who will send us 

 $1.00 and the name of a new subscriber to 

 Gleanings. If you are too busy to hunt 

 up a subscriber, send us $1.00 to extend 

 your subscription for 1890. We append the 

 following testimonials from Henderson's 

 catalogue : 



The Dwarf Lima bean was a surprise indeed. Who would 

 ever have thought it possible to transform the climbing, ram- 

 pant-growing Lima bean into a bush ! But here it is before 

 my eyes, a bush Lima, loaded with pods, and that so early in 

 the season as to remove one of the principal objections — their 

 late ripening— to growing Lima beans. This, combined with 

 its independence from the troublesome and unsightly poles, 

 must make this new vegetable wonder a welcome acquisition 

 t'> cv. rv garden.— DR. F. M. Hexamer, Office 'American Agri- 

 culturist." New York, Sept., 1888. 



Copyright, 1888, By Peter Henderson & Co. 



among a patch of tall limas. He saved the seed 

 from it, knowing nothing of its value except that 

 he saw that for his own convenience it could be 

 grown without poles. The second season he had 

 quite a patch of it, atid gave some to his neighbors, 

 until it ultimately found its way into the hands of 

 a seedsman, who purchased the entire stock. Had 

 the colored citizen only known the prize he had 

 struck, and increased the stock, one acre of this 

 new lima bean would have given him money 

 enough to purchase a good-sized Virginia farm. 



You see, friends, it was a sport, just like 

 my white Boston .Market lettuce. 



Henderson states in his new catalogue 

 that it does not run at all, grows about 18 

 inches high, produces' enormous , icrops* of 



Tlif new Bush Lima bean is the greatest acquisition to the 

 vegetable garden attained in this century- Growing exactly 

 like the common String or Bush bean, its simple culture is 

 identical. It will lind a place in thousands of gardens where 

 the old climbing bean is unknown, as not one cultivatorin one 

 hundred can go to the trouble and expense of the poles for the 

 old Lima. In the Bush Lima we have not only a vegetable of 

 the easiest culture, with a flavor equaling, if not surpassing, 

 the pole Lima, but above all a bean giving as heavy a crop, 

 and beginning two weeks earlier.— Peter B. Mead, Mamaro- 

 neek, Westchester Co., N. Y. 



FROM THE LARGEST GROWERS OF BEANS IN THE WORLD. 



Your Bush Lima bean, which we have tested very thorough- 

 ly this season, is a most valuable variety. It is strictly a bush 

 bean, growing from 15 to 18 inches high, with no tendency to 

 climb; makes a wonderful profusion of pods, some single 



plants containing 100 g 1 pods, and the majority averaging 



from 60 to 76 pods per plant, with ordinary field culture. The 

 cooking qualities are unexcelled, if indeed they are equaled 

 by the Pole Limas. We think this bean is destined to become 

 the most popular variety in the entire list.— N.B. Keeney & 

 Son, LeRoy, N. Y. 



