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Dwarf or Bush Lima Beans 
CULTURE.—Succeed best in warm, sandy loam, enriched with well rotted stable or poultry manure. Must not be sown until the ground is 
warm and dry. Sow in drills 3 feet apart, placing the eye down, 18 to 24 inches apart in the drills; or in hills 3 feet apart each way, allowing i 
or 2 plants toeach hill. A packet will plant about 25 foot of row; use 1 pound to 100 feet, 25 to 30 pounds to the acre* Ready for use in 50 to 65 days. 
sk Ordhook Bush Lima 
The only stiffly erect bush form of the popular ‘‘ potato”? Lima 
Enormous bearer of plump pods filled with thick, meaty green beans 
Fordhook produces a strong, erect, true bush-like growth (never prostrate 
or running). The foliage is of heavy texture and very dark green in 
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 54 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. Maturing in about 60 days. 
Fordbook Bush Lima yields fully 333 per cent. heavier crop and in season 
it is from four to six days earlier than most other sorts. 
Packet, 15 cents; half pound, 30 cents; pound, 45 cents, postpaid. 
Not prepaid, pound, 30 cents; 5 pounds or over at 28 cents per pound; 
100 pounds, $26.00. 
« Burpee’s Improved Bush Lima 
Enormous pods of excellently flavored beans; extremely prolific 




This bean produces a magnificent crop of pods, which measure from 5 to 6 inches long 
by 144 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, ready 
for use in about 65 days, are much larger than any bush lima. 
Packet, 15 cents; half pound, 30 cents; pound, 45 cents, postpaid. 
Not prepaid, pound, 30 cents: 5 pounds or over at 28 cents per pound; 
100 pounds, $26.00. 

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2 Burpee’s Bush Lima 
Beans as large as pole limas; ready to use I0 to 12 days earlier 
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 size and luscious flavor of the bean are 
exactly the same as with the climbing lima types, maturing in about 65 days. 
Packet, 10 cents; half pound, 25 cents; pound, 40 cents, postpaid. 
Not prepaid, pound, 25 cents; 5 pounds or over at 23 cents per pound; 
100 pounds, $21.00. 
61 Wood’s Prolific Bush Lima 
The earliest of all limas; a long and continuous bearer 
It is a distinct and valuable improyement over the original bush lima. Grown for 
its extreme earliness. Its true bush form plants are practically loaded down with 
pods, which are borne from early in the season and continue till frost. Pods contain 3 
to4 beans. Valuable as a shell bean for winter use. Ready for the table in 50 days. 
Packet, 10 cents; haif pound, 25 cents; pound, 40 cents, postpaid. 
Not prepaid, pound, 25 cents; 5 pounds or over at 20 cents per pound; 


100 pounds, $18.00. 61 WOOD’S PROLIFIC BUSH LIMA BEAN. 


