Novelties and Specialties in Vegetables 
This is an age of progress, and there will always be 
desirable new varieties as well as improvements on old ones. 
We are, however, very careful to offer only novelties of 
real merit, after thorough trial, and which we think it will 
pay our customers to plant. 
A New Pole Lima Bean—Seed Now Offered for the First 
Carpinteria Green Seeded Large Lima 
These beans are the product of two vines which appeared 
in 1906 in a crop of the new Burpee’s Improved Bush 
Lima, on the seed farm of the originator, our friend, Henry 
Fish, and one of the largest seed Lima Bean growers in this 
country, and who says it is the most perfect Pole Lima Bean. 
Their superiority and wonderful productiveness at- 
tracted his attention, and they were saved for stock seed. 
' The vine is very strong, of vigorous growth, with many 
large branches or runners, as shown in our photograph below, 
and produce a great many fine pods, which are closely filled 
with very large, broad seeded and plump, thick, perfect beans. 
The green tint is retained in the dry state to a greater 
extent than any other, indicating the fine qualities it pos- 
sesses, being fine flavored and more tender when cooked than 
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STARKEY’S MAMMOTH PROL:‘ 
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STARKEY’S MAMMO 
Originated and sele 
Philadelphia’s most su 
gardeners, who, for a few 
sent the largest and hands 
to this market, realizing 
Stalks are very large, t 
and distinct bright green | 
measure I to 2 inches i 
have been known to wei 
Mr. Starkey is a high c 
usually one of the first 
Seed, pkt., I0c.; 0z., 20: 
lb., $1.75. Roots, I yea 
100, postpaid; by expres? 
$6.25 per 1000; 2 yea. 
$1.40; 500 for $4.50; 
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