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LARGE BUSH LIMA BEAN. 
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Is an immense yielder, each bush bearing from fifty to two hundred of the 
handsome large pods, well filled with very large beans, which are identical in 
size and luscious flavor to the well-known large pole Limas. By the intro- 
duction of this most valuable novelty, the largest and best Lima Beans can 
now be raised in quantity at small cost, without the expense and labor attached 
to the use of poles. 
4 Pint, 10c. Pint, 15c. Quart, 25c. Gallon, $1.00. Peck, $1.75. Bushel, $6.00. 
Dreer’s Bush Large Lima Bean.—This remarkable bush bean pro- 
duces pods in great abundance, 185 having been counted on a single plant. It 
requires no poles or stakes. The beans grow close together, three, four and 
sometimes five in a pod, and are very thick, sweet and succulent. It ripens! 
fully ten days earlier than any of the Pole Limas. 
4 Pint,j0c. Pint, 15c. Quart, 25c. Gallon, $1.00. Peck, $1.75. Bushel, $6.00. 
POLE LIMA. 
One quart to 150 hills. 10 to 12 quarts to the acre. 
Add 15 cents per quart on Lima Beans if to be sent by mail. 
Large Lima.—Large white bean, very tender; used without shell; equally 
in winter, if soaked ten hours before cooking. 
nt, 10c. Pint, 15c. Quart, 25c. Gallon, $1.00. Peck, $1.75. Bush. $6.00. 
Tord’s Mammoth Extra Large Lima Bean.—Its pods are large 
1 size, containing from 5 to 8 mammoth beans. In quality they are unsur- 
passed, and exce: other varieties for productiveness. 
4/Pint, 10c. Pint, 15c. Quart, 25c. Gallon, $1.00. Peck, $1.75. Bush., $7.00. 
King of Garden Lima Beans.—Outrivals all other Pole Lima Beans. 
ts vine has a luxurious growth, which abounds with enormous pods, often 
from five to eight inches long, and filled frequently with five or six perfect 
beans toa pod. These beans, in their green state, are quite large and lusci- 
ous, but when dry shrink to the ordinary size. It is large, early, prolific and 
unequaled in quality. 
+/Pint, 10c. Pint, 15c. Quart, 25c. Gallon, $1.00. Peck, $1.75. Bush, $6.00 
| Dreer’s Improved Pole Lima.—The distinctive features of this are 
\ early maturity, large yield and extra quality. The bean itself is thick and 
round, rather than “oval shaped, as most other Limas are. 
Pint, 10c. Pint,15c. Quart, z5c. Gallon, $1.00. Peck, $1.75. Bush. $6.50. 
Culture of Pole Lima.—Choose light soil, and makesmall hills three 
feet apart, having previously spaded deeply and fertilized. Piant long poles First and last, Thus 
two feet deep in the centre of the hills. Aliow six beans to each hill, covering| from your Fiance eee fifty years, 
them barely beneath the surface, their eyes downward. Do not allow more| Gnd have always found them 
than three to climb a pole, but remove extra plants to hills where less than| Wo. “one.” 
three have sprouted. The Lima Bean is very delicate, and often fails to sprout 
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from slight causes; they should not be planted until the ground is warm. | West Virginia. 
