GROWING LIMAS THAT ARE FIT FOR LUCULLUS 



Not so Much a Matter of Which Particular Kind or Type, but Rather 

 of Giving Right Conditions, and Picking and Using at the Right Time 



Famous for its quality and heavy yield — Carpinteria Lima 



HIGHEST QUALITY AMONG LIMA BEANS 

 ADOLPH KRUHM 



jN ONE respect the two great American vegetables, 

 Corn and Lima Beans, are alike — you must grow them 

 yourself, gather them when "just right," and prepare 

 promptly, or the elusive "quality" will not be there at 

 mealtime. The rich, marrow-like, peculiarly characteristic 

 flavor of Lima Beans cannot be canned, captured by drying, or 

 gotten hold of in any other way than via the home garden. 

 Both the tall or climbing, and dwarf or Bush Limas are of 

 specific usefulness. The dwarf sorts are unquestionably the 

 earlier, but the very much longer branches of the tall sorts bear 

 more pods, and consequently their yield is greater; and notwith- 

 standing the introduction of very large-podded dwarf sorts, 

 the Pole Limas generally surpass in size both of pods and shelled 

 beans. Where garden space is limited and poles are not avail- 

 able, Pole Limas may be grown along fences or trellises, thus 

 'serving the treble purpose of creating shade, hiding unsightly 

 objects, and 'yielding food. 



As to difference in flavor between Bush and Pole Limas I 

 can truthfully say there is none. A great deal depends at what 

 stage of development the pods are picked and how soon after 

 picking the beans are shelled and cooked. Thirty minutes of 

 cooking may bring out the flavor to perfection while forty-five 

 minutes may neutralize it. Still, a great leeway is possible in 

 connection with these various factors if you press into service 

 pedigreed quality kinds of proven behavior; and it is in the en- 

 deavor to introduce you to Limas that always behave, that 1 

 first mention: 



The Quality Trio Among Bash Varieties 



TWELVE years ago a young son of one of the largest Lima 

 Bean seed specialists in California (where, incidentally, 

 nearly the entire crop of all Limas is produced) walked through 

 a field of King of the Garden Pole Limas and discovered, not- 

 withstanding the field had been "rogued" before, two " sports " 

 of true bush habit, with pods every bit as large as those of the 

 King of the Garden Pole variety. These two mutations or 

 "sports" carried pods of entirely different types; and there 

 isn't a gardener to-day who has not heard of Fordhook and 

 Burpee- Imp roved as the most up-to-the-minute quality Bush 

 Limas available. 



Fordhook Bush Lima is the largest podded form of the old- 

 fashioned "fat" or Potato Lima. The pods average 5 inches 

 long, are borne in pairs or double pairs and contain on an average 

 four large, thick, green-skinned beans that truly have no superior 

 in flavor. (Incidentally, here is a "tip": whenever you see a 

 green-skinned Lima, make up your mind that it is far superior 

 in flavor to the white or yellow-skinned bean). A week to 

 ten days after Fordhook has yielded its first picking, the Burpee- 

 Improved brings us its large, flat pods equal in size to any pole 

 variety. The pods average 5! inches long and contain on an 

 average 5 beans which, in the green stage, are as large as those 

 of the largest Pole Limas. 



The introduction of these two sorts marked the dawn of a 

 new era in Bush Limas for, popular as old Burpee's Bush Lima, 



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