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POPULAR VEGETABLE SEEDS 



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]Vew Jersey Grown pole Lima Beane 



WHY THEY ARE THE BEST 



Average Pods of ford's mammoth, 8 Inches Long. 



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 prodnct 

 l)eiug eagerly sought after by Boston, New York, Phila- 

 delphia and other Eastern cities, for both seed and con- 

 sumption. For some years past, however, many seeds- 

 men have been growing their supplies in Southern Cali- 

 fornia, where they are grown very cheaply and without 

 poles. We have made hundreds of tests of various 

 Ijimas from California seed and find the product much 

 inferior 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. 



FORD'S MAMMOTH PODDED 



This grand Lima Bean is the result of over twenty 

 years' selection by Jas. Ford, one of the oldest market 

 gardeners around Philadelpliia. The pods grow to an 

 average length of eight inches, and are produced in great 

 clusters, witli from five to seven beans per pod, of most 

 excellent quality, for using either green or dry. The 

 vines grow vigorously, setting the beans early at the bot- 

 tom of the pole, and continue in bearing right up to frost. 

 Ford's Maininoth Podded is without exception the 

 largest podded, finest flavored and most produc- 

 tive of all Lima Beans. Pkt., lOc; pint, 3.ic.; qt., 55c., 

 postpaid; by freight or express, qt., 40c.; 4 qts., 81.25; 

 peck, 82.25; bush., $8.00. 



SHAXLCBO.SS MAKKET QUEF.N LIMA. A rare 

 novelty in Lima Beans now offered for the first time. See 

 Novelties, page 2. Pkt., 15c.; pint, 35c.; qt., C5c.; peck, 

 $3.00. Supply limited. 



JERSEY EXTKA EAKLY LIMA. The pods are 

 large and numerous, invariably having from four to five 

 beans in each. These beans appear in Philadelphia mar- 

 kets nearly two weeks ahead of ordinary limas, selling at 

 from $3.00 to $4.00 per bushel of pods, and previous to the 

 introduction of Seibert's Earlv, were considered theearli- 

 est. Pt., 30o.; qt., 50e.; peck, $1.75; bush., $6.50. 



GEKMAN CLUSTER LIMA. Quite early, produc- 

 ing large pods containing five to six beans each in great 

 clusters of ten to twelve. The vines are heavier and 

 leaves broader than in any of the American limas. Pint, 

 30c.; qt., 50e.; peck, $2.00. 



WILLOW LEAF LIMA. This new pole Lima Bean 

 differs from all others in its beautiful deeply cut foliage. 

 The pods are of the Sewee type, well filled with pure 

 white beans, tender and of fine flavor. Pint, 25c.; qt., 

 40c.; peck, $1.25; b\ish., $4.75. 



STOKES' EVERGREEN LIMA. The Stokes' Ever- 

 green not only holds the full size and great productive- 

 ness of the Salem Mammoth, but has the remarkable 

 additional quality of holding, in all stages of growth, and 

 even when dry and shelled, the deep green color of the 

 unripe state, thus giving the dry beans, when cooked 

 during the winter and spring, not only the green appear- 

 ance, but also the delicious flavor of beans fresh from the 

 vine. Pint, 35c.; qt., 60c.; peck, $2. .50. 



KING OF THE GARDEN LIMA. More prolific 

 than the ordinary lima, hearing pods five to six inches 

 long, in clusters of four and five, with five to six beans in 

 apod. Pint, 25c.; qt., 45o.; peck, $1.50; bush., $5.75. 



HORTICULTURAL LIMA. A cross between the 

 Dwarf Horticultural and Dreer's Improved Ijima. Vines 

 medium-sized, fruiting early and freely to the ends; 

 leaves large, coarse wrinkled, green, resembling Divarf 

 Horticultural ; pods borne in clu.oters, three to si.x inches 

 in lenfitli, flat, almost straight. Pint, 25c.; qt., 40c.; peck, 

 $1.2.t: bush., 14.75. 



DREER'.S IMPROVED, or CHALLENGER 

 POLE LIMA. When green is as large as the Large 

 Lima, thicker, sweeter and more tender and nutritions, 

 remaining green in the pod for a long time after matur- 

 ing. Pint, 2oc.; qt., 45c.; peck, $1..50.; bush., $5 75. 



SALEM IMPROVED LIMA. A seleclion from the 

 Large Lima Beau, of extraordinarv size and deep green 

 color. Pint, 30c.; qt., .50c,; peck, $2.00; bush., $7.50. 



LARGE WHITE LIMA. (Extra Selected Size.) 

 The well-known favorite. Onr strain is fine. Pint, 25c.; 

 qt.,46c.; peck, $l..i0; hush., $5.75. 



Carolina, or Sewee. Beans about half the size of 

 Large Lima. Pint, 2oc.; qt., 45c.; peck, $1.£0 ; bush., $5.50. 



