WM. HENRY MAULE, Inc., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Vegetable Seeds — 25 



Dwarf or Bu^h L>inna Beans 



CUX.T0KK. — Succeed best in warm, sandy loam, enriched with well rotted stable or poultry manure. Must not be sown until the ground 13 

 warm and dry. Sow in drills 3 feet apart, placing the eye down, 18 to 24 inches apart in the drills ; or in hiUs 3 feet apart each way, allowing 1 or 

 2 plants to each hill. Cultivate frequently but shallow. Use 1 quart to 100 hills, 12 to 16 quarts to the acre. 



FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA BEAN. 



Our seeds purchased of you this year are 

 fine ; everything came up lovely and our gar- 

 dens are beautiful. 



MRS. WM. DRAKE, Chatham Centre, N. Y. 



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Fordhook Bush Lima 



The only stiffly erect bush form of the populeir "potato" Lima 



Both pods and beans are twice the size of Dreer's Bush Lima 



Fordhook produces a stroug, erect, true bush-like gro\Yth (never prostrate 

 or runnmg). The foliage is of heavy texture and very dark green iu 

 color. The stalks that produce the blossoms are thrown out from the lateral 

 and main stalks; the pods are borne in "clusters" of from four to eight. 

 The pods measure from 4 to 5i inches long, about 1^ inches wide, by as 

 much as three-fourths of an inch thick. The pods contain three to five 

 large beans with an average of four. 



Fordhook Bush Lima yields fully 33J per cent, heavier crop and in season 

 it is from four to six days earlier than most other sorts. 



Packet, 10 cents; pint, 35 cents; quart, 60 cents, postpaid. By express or 

 freight, not prepadd, quart, 45 cents; 4 quarts, $1.60; peck, $3.00; bu., $11.00. 



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BURPEE'S BUSH LIMA BEAN. 



Burpee's Bush Lima 



A dwarf or bush form of the large climbing lima. The plant grows 18 or 20 inches 

 high, and has an erect branching stem. The common yield is from 50 to 200 mar- 

 ketable pods per plant. The size and luscious flavor of the bean are exactly the 

 same as with the climbing lima types. 



Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 30 cts.; quart, 55 cts., postpaid. By express or freight, 

 mot prepaid, quart, 40 cts.; 4 quarts, $1.40; peck, Sa.50; bushel, S9.00. 



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Wood's Prolific Bush Lima 



This Is a handsome, early and very prolific type of the original bush lima bean. The 

 claim is made that it is the most valuable improvement introduced since the first 

 bush lima made Its appearance. Of fine table quality. 



Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 30 cts.; quart, 50 cts., postpaid. By express or freight, 

 not prepaid, quart, 35 cts.; 4 quarts, SI. 35; peck, $3.25; bushel, $8.50. 



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Burpee's Improved Bush Lima 



This bean produces a magnificent crop of pods, which measure from 5 to 6 laches 

 long by 114 inches wide. Compared with Burpee's Bush Lima, both pods and beans 

 are°much larger, while the beans either green or dry, are nearly twice as thick. The 

 sturdy bushes are loaded with pods that are truly enormous in size. The luscious 

 green beans are larger than any bush lima ever known. 



Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 35 cts.; quart, 60 cts., postpaid. By express or freight, 

 not prepaid, quart, 45 cts.; 4 quarts, $1.60; peck, $3.00; bushel, $11.00. 



WOOD'S PROLIFIC BUSH LIMA BEAN. 



We planted your seed last year and had the best garden in 25 years. 

 The beans were tender, and bore the second crop towards fall, some- 

 thing we never had before. R- PERCE, Clyde, N. Y. 



