POLE LIMA BEANS if%2ueu 
Pole beans do not bear as early as the bush varieties but they are more productive, 
their bearing season is longer and they are more easily gathered. They succeed best in 
a warm sandy loam which has been enriched with well rotted manure. If poles are used 
they should be set three to four feet apart each way. After the ground has become warm 
and dry, plant 4 to 6 beans to a pole and when well started thin out to 2 or 3 plants to 
a pole. By placing the seed eyes down they will germinate more quickly and for this 
reason are less liable to rot. Cultivate frequently but shallow. 
; The Early Leviathan stands supreme because of its combined 
Early Leviathan qualities, earliness, size and productiveness. The large, well 
filled pods are borne in clusters of five to ten and are s aced over the entire vine. They 
are well filled with large fleshy beans of excellent quality, delicate pale green in color. 
, This is the best and most popular main crop variety. 
King of the Garden Vines are strong and vigorous; setting pods early and 
continuing to bear until frost. Is used extensively by market gardeners because of its 
very prolific nature and the immense size of the pods, which are very straight and hand- 
some; of medium dark green color, broad, flat and filled with four or five large white 
beans of finest quality. 
Improved Challenger or Improved Dreer’s Pole Vigorous ana 
very productive. 
Pods and beans resemble Fordhook Bush Limas. Therefore also known as Fordhook Pole. 
Today we have been pulling down the last of our Lima Beans and stacking the poles 
for next year and we cannot help but write you a few lines to let you know how we were 
pleased with the Improved Challenger Pole Limas. 
To our mind they are the best of all the pole varieties, giving one a plump, green 
bean, very succulent or moist, but with still enough meatiness to afford plenty of sub- 
stance and carry their green color after they are cooked, with a delicious nutty flavor. 
As to their productiveness we are fully satisfied as we have picked as many as 87 
large plump green pods off one pole at one time and this after the pole had been picked sev- 
eral times during the season, our poles were about 12 feet high and the vines went to the 
tops and hung down. 
We had another variety of pole limas in the garden that were sent to us by a friend 
and found them to be less productive and a thin or flat white bean that did not have the 
flavor or attractiveness when cooked, needless to say we will plant only Improved Chal- 
lenger from Manns next season. 
We are maehlyy pleaaed with all he seeds we purchased from you and you will soon 
receive our order for next year’s su 5 : 
PE Sincerely, Bruce H. Gallup 
4 The largest podded lima in cultiva- 
Giant Podded tion; extremely vigorous in growth, 
mid-season. Pods are borne in clusters of 6 to 8 and 
measure 7 inches long and 1% inches broad. The beans 
are extra large and of excellent quality. 
BUSH LIMA BEANS 
Large seeded sorts, 1 qt. to 100 hills; 1 bu. to the acre. 
Small seeded sorts, 1 qt. to 150 hills; 3 pks. to the acre. 
These varieties require no support, are about two weeks Early 
earlier than the pole beans, and can be planted closer in Leviathan 
the rows. They are therefore used by large growers and 
by gardeners who do not find it convenient to use poles. 
After danger of frost is past and the ground has become 
warm, plant in 3 foot rows dropping 8 seeds to a hill and the hills 15 inches apart. 
9 Heaviest yielding high quality bush lima. Recent U. S. Dept. 
Fordhook 242 of Agr. tests at 15 locations throughout the country proved 
Fordhook 242 more prolific than any of the other four popular commercial varieties. 
The average yield was 8505 lbs. per acre, nearly 25% better than the second best and 
far ahead of all the other varieties. 
Burpee’s Improved Bush Lima A very prolific mid-season variety of 
very hardy, vigorous and true bush 
growth, bearing clusters of 6 to 8 pods measuring 5 to 6 inches long. The pods are 
borne abundantly, enormous in size and well filled with handsome beans which are 
both larger and thicker than those of the regular Burpee’s Bush Lima. 
Wood’s Prolific or Henderson’s Improved Bush Lima 
A very early and vigorous 5 bes producing, an abundance of 3 to 4-inch pods; contain 
4 small, flat, white beans of good quality. 
BUSH LIMAS PRICES Qt. 
Burpee’s Improved Bush Lima $ .75 
Fordhook 242 Bush Lima ae 
‘55 
85 
85 
-75 
85 
King of the Garden -75 
Sieva (small white) 55 
Early Giant Bush 
6 J. MANNS & CO., Baltimore, Md. 
Superior Seeds 
