JOHNSON SEED COMPANY 



Novelties and Specialties in Vegetables 



The successful gardener, before ordering his supply of seeds, makes a careful study of one or more 

 reliable seed catalogues, having probably learned that there are two classes of seedsmen. 



One class offer each year, in bewildering numbers, novelties from the four quarters of the globe, 

 which they claim are destined to eclipse all similar varieties heretofore known. Such catalogues the 

 gardener must regard humorously if he considers them at all. 



There is another class of seedsmen who are constantly on the lookout for something of value. They 

 keep closely in touch with experts in this and in foreign countries. New varieties, when proven to be of 

 distinct merit, are promptly included in their lists, after thorough trials. Such trials we make each 

 season at Cedarcroft Trial Grounds, and the results of recent careful investigations will be found in the 

 succeeding pages. v 



NEW FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA BEAN 



The only stiffly 

 erect Bush form 

 of the Potato 

 Lima! Both pods 

 and beans are 

 twice the size of 

 Dreer's and more 

 than half again 

 as large as the 

 Challenger Pole 

 Lima. 



FORDHOOK 

 BUSH LIMA is 



altogether unique. 

 Nothing like it 

 has ever been 

 seen before ! It 

 was created by 

 Nature as a 

 single sport in a 

 field of the 

 Challenger Pole 

 Lima in 1903. 

 Until now the 

 Kumerle or 

 Dreer's Bwsh 

 Lima has been 

 the only dwarf 

 form of the fat 

 "Potato Lima." 

 An objection to this, however, is found in the prostrate growth of the plant, the pods frequently 

 becoming discolored from being beaten to the ground by wind or rain. 



FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA is positively upright in growth. The strong erect bushes withstand both 

 whipping rains and high winds. The main stalk is stiffly erect, from two to two and one-half feet 

 high, and from this is thrown out a great number of lateral branches, closely resembling Burpee's 

 Bush Lima in this habit of growth. The foliage is much heavier than Dreer's; the leaf is broader, 

 resembling that of a large Pole Lima, of heavy texture and dark green in color, while the pods are 

 borne along stalks thrown out from the lateral and main stalks in "clusters" of from four to eight. The 

 pods resemble Dreer's, but are much larger, measuring from four to five and one-half inches long, 

 one and one-eighth to one and a quarter inches wide, by as much as three-quarters of an inch thick. 



FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA is fully twenty-five to thirty-three and one-third per cent, a heavier cropper. 

 Both the green and the dried beans, as compared with Dreer's, are truly enormous, being more than 

 double the size. On one bush we counted fifty-two pods, the majority containing four beans, while a 

 great number contained five. In a selected plant of Dreer's there were not nearly so many well- 

 formed pods, while a number contained only two small beans. The flavor of the green beans is all that 

 can be desired in this chubby or potato lima type, which is given such preference on the New York 

 markets. Being more productive, and of upright growth, with larger, handsomer pods and from four to 

 six days earlier, it is bound to entirely displace the Kumerle (Dreer's or Thorburn) Bush Lima. 



Seed— ORIGINATOR'S STOCK— Per pkt. , 15c; 2 pkts., 25c; i pint, 40c; \ pint, 75c; pint, $1.25, 

 by mail, postpaid. 



A plant of fobdhook bush lima — from a photograph. 



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