18 PETER HENDERSON & GO., NEW YORK.—VEGETABLE SEED NOVELTIES. . 
HENDERSON’S NEW BUSH LIMA BEAN. 
No novelty that has ever been sent out has received as wide distribution, in so short atime, as Henderson’s Bush Lima. A few years 
ago the entire stock of this variety was growing on an obscure plantation in Virginia; to-day it will be found in almost every garden on 
this continent. This has been due to its great merit, which the public were quick to recognize. One of the most valuable character- 
istics of Henderson’s Bush Lima is its extreme earliness, as it comes in from two to three weeks ahead of any of the other climbing or 
Bush Limas, thus supplying us with a delicious vegetable at a time when the garden is somewhat bare, filling in, as it does, the gap be- 
tween Peas and the Pole Limas. The small size of Henderson’s Bush Lima, which at first was urged as an objection to it, has proyedone 
of the strongest points in its favor, as the public, rightly enough, prefer small beans, always associating great size in beans or peas. 
with coarser quality. Henderson’s Bush Lima is enormously productive, bearing continuously throughout the summer until killed 
by the frost. Its greatest merit, of course, lies in the fact that it is a true bush variety, requiring no support from stakes or poles, 
but, at the same time, the experience of all who have grown it has been that it excels as well in quality, quantity and earliness. (See cut.) 
THE ORIGIN OF HENDERSON’S BUSH LIMA BEAN, 
We have been frequently asked where the Bush Lima Bean came from, and as this wonderful new Bean reached a seedsman of Richmond, Virginia, who at once 
the history of the origin of such novelties is interesting to many people, we will took steps to secure all of the stock, which he succeeded in doing. Although the 
give briefly the story of this great novelty. : quantity he secured was very small, yet he soon increased the quantity, and then 
It seems that, some twenty years ago, an aged colored man, passing along a road brought the great novelty to our attention. We purchased the entire stock from 
near the Peaks of Otter, in the vicinity of Lynchburgh, Virginia, noticed a single plant him in the fall of 1887, and offered it to the public in the spring of 1889. When the 
of this Bean growing by the roadside. Having alittle garden of his own aroundhis | two bush forms of the Large Lima Beans appeared it was thought by some that. 
humble cabin, he gathered the beans from this single plant and took them home they would displace this small variety. Such, however, has not provedto be the 
with him. From these few beans he raised a small stock which he kept in his case, as the Henderson Lima, from its earliness, productiveness and grand quality, 
possession for several years. From him it passed into the hands of a large market | still standspre-eminent. Our assertion, in 1888, that it was the “ grandest vegetable 
gardener near Lynchburgh, who grew this variety for many years, it proving very | novelty of the nineteenth century,” still holds good. It has stood the test of time. 
profitable to him from the fact of its great earliness. About1885 information of | 
TESTIMONIALS. 
WILLIAM FALCONER, in ‘‘American Gardening,” September, 1892. 
HENDERSON’s BusH Lrua.—It has come to stay, and ts a splendid addition to summer 
vegetables ; to me it is indispensable. After July 15th we cannot expect good peas—the mil- 
dew ruins them. But about July 20th, from a warm, sandy piece of land, I begin to pick 
Henderson's Bush Lima Beans. We sow them in rows as we do ordinary snap-beans, using 
only one-fourth as much seed. They grow well without any trouble, never run, and bear 
enormous crops. After large white pole Limas come, about August 10th or 15th, we stop 
picking the dwarf ones. Again, in fall, Henderson's Bush Limas are very useful. We have 
Notes from ‘‘ Popular Gardening” Trial Grounds, La Salle-on-the-Niagara, N. Y. | 
“* Henderson's Bush Lima we can hardly speak too highly of. The growthis vigorous and 
strong; pods are produced in immense numbers and continuously until the end of the sea- 
son. As they grow in clusters, picking is quite easy and quick work. In quality we think 
there is nothing that can surpass this variety —there is a richness and delicacy about them 
hardly met with in any other bean. Henderson’s Bush Lima is just the sort to be planted 
vhere the ordinary Limas are a trifle late.’’ 
The Bush Lima Beans I got of you are what you say about them, for I think they are them sown closé in rows, so as to cover them with frames and sashes from September to No- 
the finest and most prolific bean I ever saw.—A. D. Brown, Hiawatha, Kas. vember, and in this way get fresh green Limas long after the frost has killed the pole-beans. 
The best thing I had in my garden last year was the Henderson Bush Lima Bean. This | We ate Bush Lima Beans to-day grown youn wee Cought: from ya the spring and 
year I tried Burpee’s Bush Lima Bean. Now I wish to say that Henderson's Bush Lima | Sound them to exceed even your description.—C. S. NortTH, Raymond, Miss. 
Bean will produce more beans on half the space, and do not have to be tied or propped up.— | The Bush Lima Beans I received from you last year were a great success. I found them. 
C. L. Jupson, Kansas. to be very productive, of fine flavor and very tender.—A. M. BRINGMAN, Upper Sandusky, 0. 
PRICE, HENDERSON’S NEW BUSH LIMA BEAN, 
loc. per packet, 15c. per 14 pint, 30c. per pint, 50c. per quart, $3.50 per peck. 
