NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES 5 



The " Burpee Improved " Bush Lima 



This is also an entirely " New Creation." The pods are truly enormous 



in size, borne abundantly and well filled with handsome 



beans, which are both larger and thicker than 



those of the popular Burpee's Bush Lima 



Like the Fordhook Bush Lima, one plant of this was discovered also in 1903, as a sport in a 

 field of Challenger Pole Lima. 



It differs from the best strains of Burpee'/t Bush Lima in having uniformly much larger pods, 

 producing more beans, while both pods and beans are not only larger in size, but also considerably 

 thicker. The growth is even more vigorous, with heavier foliage. The plants are uniformly upright. 

 Full-grown bushes measure thirty inches in 

 height and twenty-four inches across the top. 

 The blossom-bearing stalks are thrown well 

 out from the foliage, and the pods are fre- 

 quently borne in what might be called 

 "clusters" of from five to eight. We 

 counted two "clusters," of which one had 

 nine and the other ten large, perfect pods, con- 

 taining from four to eight beans to the pod. 



The " Burpee Improved 



produces magnificent crops of pods, which 

 measure from five to six inches long by one 

 and one-quarter inches wide. As compared 

 with Burpee's Bush Lima, both pods and beans 

 are very much larger, while the beans, either 

 green or dry, are nearly twice as thick. The 

 green beans measured in the field of The Bur 

 pee Improved were one and one-quarter inches 

 long by seven-eighthsofaninch wide and three- 

 eighths of an inch thick, while (he best that could 

 be found in neighboring fields of Burpee's Bush 

 Lima were oneand.onereighth inches long, eleven- 

 sixteenths of an inch wide and one-quarter of an 

 inch thick. The beans are of the same delicious 

 flavor as those of Burpee's Bush Lima or the 

 Large Lima Pole Zfran^while they are ready to use 

 six to eight days eajrffer, 



The fjJHirpee Improved 



I jrnn will outyield Burpee's Bush Lima by fully 

 Ivlllld one .third. This greater yield is due to 

 the increased size of both pod and beans. The 

 dried beans are very handsome, and generally 

 show a greenish-white coloring, while dried 

 beans of the Burpee Bush Lima, like those 

 of the Large Pole Lima, are pure white. 



Seed, Originator's Stock 



Per pkt., 15c; two pkts. for 25c 

 Vi pint, 40c; y 2 pint, 75c; per pint, 

 $1.25, by mail, postpaid. 



To induce you to try 

 those two grand, new 

 I.inias — Ford h 00k 

 Bush and "Burp, 

 Improved" Bush — 

 W8 will send I 

 pkt. each for 

 25c; 1, pint 

 VI- pint each 



A 



LIBERAL 

 OFFER 



each for 75c 

 for $1.25. 



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 The Nrw " Burpff Improvrd " Bush Llm« 



