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ICabch 26, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



37 



A Plant of the Unique Fobdhook Bush Lima— reproduced from a photograph. 



is uniformly of stiffly erect, true bush habit, branching 

 freely, but with all the branches held upright. 



Fordhook Bush Lima 



PofHhrirkk' Rll^fl I itrm bears tremendous crops! It sets pods freely even in a 

 * VFl VIIIWIV L^uoti l^itiici. cool, wet season. The beans are ready for use as early as 

 those of Burpee's Bush Lima, which furnishes fine Lima beans for the table three to four weeks earlier 

 than they can be had from the earliest pole varieties. The plump, well-filled pods are twice as large as those 

 of the Kumerle or Dreer's Bush ; the individual green beans are also fully twice the size. The pods meas- 

 ure four to five inches in length, containing four large beans each, while with good cultivation, in rich 

 soil, they frequently attain a length of five and a half inches with five large, plump beans. Per pkt., 10c 

 (net); k«pint, 30c ; >2-pint, 55c ; per pint, $1.00. 



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Burpee's 



Seeds Grow! 



And the Burpee Business Grows I 



Last year (our 3 ist) we sold more 

 seeds than ever before in any one 

 year and in 1908 we shall sell even 

 more. You will understand "the 

 reason why " when yon read 



Burpee's New 



Farm Annual 



For 1908 



"THE SEAL OF 

 QUALITY" 



This complete booK 

 bound in lithographed 

 covers and containing 

 also six superb colored 

 plates i)ainted from 

 nature, is Yours for 

 the asking — provided 

 you h.Tve a garden and 

 will mention where you saw this advertise- 

 ment. It is an elegant book— tlie best seed 

 catalog we have yet issued— and offers 

 some most remarkable "Nuw Creations" 

 '"Vegetables and Mowers, wliich can l)e 

 obtained only direct from us. Many a win- 

 ter's eveningcan bespent profitably in plan- 

 nlngyourgarden.by acarcfulstudvofthU 

 book. Shall we send you a copy? If'^you ap- 

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 If so, write to-day— do not put off and 

 possibly forget until it is too late I 



W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO. 



The Largest Mail-Order Seed House. 

 Burpee Building, Philadelphia 



What's in a Name?" 



The Name-Fordhook~?,^e?°X^?Krt 



of our Pennsylvania Farms, so famous as the home of the 

 largest Trial Grounds in America. The name Fordhook 

 is widely known, also, as that of the finest extra long 

 Cucumber — the best all-the-year-round Squash — the 

 earliest Watermelon— and the most unique New Bush 

 Lima. With such a record, our friends will readily understand that when we have a new 



Musk Melon, of most unusual merit— upon which we TU^ Nam« **it't\rAV\t\e^]l ** 



wiUingly stake our reputation-we naturally give it ' ••'^ llallMC I uruilUUIV. 



Burpee's New FORDHOOK Musk Melon 



A heavily netted melon, nicely ribbed, golden-red meat of exquisite flavor; very 

 firm and the best long distance shipper today without ice. Running two and a half to 

 three dozen melons to the bushel crate. A money-maker from the start. 



Will »row "No Other "-so 

 writes one of the most extensive 

 fffowers for market whose farm is 

 opposite our Sunnybrook Farm In 

 New Jersey. 



SwEDKSBORo, N.J.. Sept. 16, '07. 

 Dear Mk. Birpee:— 



Your New Fordhook Canta- 

 loupe is the most perfect canta- 

 loupe I ever grew. It is about the 

 same size as Improved Jenny 

 Lind. very thick flesh, of orange- 

 yellow, very small seed cavity, 

 comparatively few seeds, flesh 

 very solid and of very high flavor, 

 flesh staying solid and firm after 

 melon has become quite yellow, 

 making it an excellent long dis- 

 tance shipper. The vines are 

 healthy and a very strong grower, 

 setting fruit close to hill and keep 

 on setting fruit throughout the 

 season to end of vine. They are 

 well ribbed, very heavily netted, 

 weighing about 2 pounds apiece. 

 Will grow no other than your.FoRDHooK for my entire crop of 1908. 



Sincerely yours. Frank J. Rode. 



Per pkt., 10c (net); H-oz., 25c; I2-0Z., 40c; per oz., 7Sc, postpaid. 



yf^u'^^J^T.p':. Burpee's New "Blue List." J-^e ^""^i Tfi 



Wholesale" Seed Catalogs for the Market Gardener. Address 



BURPEE, Philadelphia 



BURPEE'S NEW " FORDHOOK " MISK MELON. 



