Johnson & Stokes' Specialties for Market Gardeners. 



New Jersey Grown 

 Lima Beans 



Why They Are the Best for Seed 



For nearly half a century Southern New 

 Jersey has had the reputation, and deservedly 

 so, of growing the finest Lima Beans in the 

 United States, the product being eagerly sought 

 after by Boston, New York, Philadelphia and 

 other Eastern cities, for both seed and con- 

 sumption. For some years past, however, many 

 seedsmen have been growing their supplies in 

 Southern California, where they are grown 

 very cheaply and without poles. We have 

 made hundreds of tests of various Limas from 

 California seed, and find the product much in- 

 ferior in both quality and productiveness to 

 those grown in New Jersey. It is also difficult 

 to get them to take the poles, owing to the 

 method in which they are grown, while the 

 beans are smaller and lack the rich buttery 

 flavor peculiar to the New Jersey Limas. 



JERSEY EXTRA EARLY LIHA BEAN 



The earliest large lima ; pods are large 

 and numerous, invariably having from four to 

 five beans in each. These beans appear in 

 Philadelphia markets nearly two weeks ahead 

 of ordinary limas, selling at from J3.00 to 1:4.00 

 per bushel of "pods. Qt., 35c.; peck, $1.75 ; 

 bush., I6.75. 



bvbpee's bush lima. Natural Size. 



SHOTWEIX'S IMPROVED NEW THICK POLE LIMA. 



Shotwell's Improved Thick Pole Lima Bean 



Originated by one of the best and most experienced growers 

 of Northern New Jersey. It is of the thick or Potato :Lima 

 class, being an improvement on the Dreer's Improved, or^Chal- 

 lenger Pole Lima in earliness, productiveness and fine quality. 

 All claims made for it by the originator have been fully sub- 

 stantiated by hundreds of our customers who have tried it. 

 Qt., 4CC.; peck, $2.25 ; bush., I8.50. 



Dreer's Improved, or Challenger Pole Lima 



When green, is as large as the large lima, thicker, sweeter 

 and more tender and nutritious, remaining green in the 

 pod for a long time after maturing : one of the best for market. 

 Qt., 35c.; peck, lr.75 ; bush., $6.50. 



Ford's Mammoth Podded Pole Lima Bean 



This grand Lima Bean is the result of over twenty years' 

 selection by the late Jas. Ford, one of the oldest and most re- 

 spected market gardeners around Philadelphia. The pods 

 grow to an average length of eight inches, and are produced in 

 great clusters, with from five to seven beans per pod, of most 

 excellent quality, for using either green or drj\ The vines 

 grow vigorously, setting the beans early at the bottom of the 

 pole, and continue in bearing right up to frost. Qt. , 35c.; 

 peck, I2.00; bush., $7.50. 



Dwarf Large White or Burpee's Bush Lima Bean 



The true Bush form of the large Lima Pole Bean, and the 

 best of all the Dwarf Limas. It grows to a height of eighteen 

 to twenty inches, forming a circular bush, requiring no poles 

 or stakes, yielding from fifty to one hundred and fifty fine pods, 

 similar to those grown on the Large Lima Pole Bean. Qt., 

 40c.; peck, I2.00 ; bush., J7.50. 



