PETER HENDERSON & CO.-VEGETABLE SEED NOVELTIES. 



A VEGETABLE WONDER! 



HBNDKRSON'S 



NEW. BUSH. LIMA. BEAN 



(Novelty 1889.) 



The Greatest Novelty of the 19th Century ! 



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We exclusively 

 control this Novett)' , 

 this season. Every 

 package of the genuine is 

 sealed wilti our, Trade 

 Mark Label. Any seed 

 offered not so sealed 

 IS spurious.' 

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In the forty years that our house has been in existence, Ave have introduced many Novelties both in 

 Vegetables and Flowers that have become landmarks in the progressive march of that period, but never 

 have we had the honor of introducing a Novelty to compare with this. Thousands have been deterred from 

 cultivating the most delicious of Vegetables, the Lima Bean, from the great trouble 

 and expense of procuring the unsightly poles which were required on which to grow 

 them. This is now a thing of the past, as the Henderson's New Bush Lima grows with- 

 out the aid of stakes or poles, in compact bush form, about i8 inches high, and produces 

 enormous crops of delicious Lima Beans, Avhich can be as easily gathered as the common 

 garden Bush Beans. Henderson's New Bush Lima is at least two weeks earlier than 

 any of the climbing Limas. This fact alone would stamp it as the most valuable novelty 

 of recent years, but Avhen, in addition to this, we realize that it is a true Bush Bean, requiring no supports, 

 some idea of its great value can be realized. 



Henderson's Bush Lima produces a continuous crop from the time it comes into bearing (it is fit for 

 the table in the latitude of New York, middle of July) until frost, and being enormously productive, a very 

 small patch Avill keep a family supplied with this splendid vegetable through the season. The Beans are of 

 the size of the Sieva or Small Lima, and of that delicious qualit}^ that has made the Southern Lima so 

 famous. 12 packets will plant five rows, each fifty feet long, which is ample for an ordinar}- family. 



Our stock of the New Bush Lima being quite limited this season, we have decided to offer it in 

 packets only. Whether bought direct of us, or obtained through other seed houses, it should reach the pur- 

 chaser sealed with our Trade Mark label, as the genuine Bush Lima is owned and controlled exclusively by us. 



Price, per single packet, 25c. ; 5 packets for $L00 ; 12 packets for $2.00. 



12 packets will plant 5 rows, each 50 feet long, which is ample for an ordinary famUy. 



TESTIMONIAI^ FROM EXPERTS ^who liave gro-wn Henderson's Xe^- Busb I^ima Bean. 



The Dwarf Lima Bean was a surprise indeed. Who would ever have thought 

 it possible to transform the climbing, rampant-growing Lima Bean into a bush ; 

 bttt liere 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 

 to every garden. — 2r. F. M. Hexameb, Office "American Agriculturist," New York, 

 Sept., 1888. 



The 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 find a place in thousands of gardens where 

 the old climbing Bean is unknown, as not one cultivator in 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 hea\'y a crop, and beginning two 

 weeks earUer. — Peteb B. Mead, Mamaroneck, Westchester Co., N. T. 



From the larg-est gro-wers of beans in the -world. 



Tour Bush Lima Bean, which we have tested very thoroughly this season, is a most valuable variety. It is strictly a bush bean, growing from 15 tolS iaches high, 

 with no tendency to climb. Makes a wonderful profusion of pods, some single plants containing 100 good pods and the majority averaging from 50 to 75 pods per plant 

 with ordinary field cultur The cooking qualities are unexcelled, if indeed they are equaled by the Pole Limas. We think this Bean is destined to become the mo6t 

 popular variety in the entire list. — N. B. Kkknky & Son, Le Roy, N. Y. 



