NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES 5 
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. 
+4 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 Bush 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 
one-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 pref- 
erence 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.; % pt., 25c.; 
pt., 45c., postpaid. By express, pt., 35c.; gt., 60c.; 2 qts., $1.10; peck, 
$3.50; bush., $12.50. 
Henderson’s Early Leviathan Pole Lima 
One week earlier than any other Pole Lima. Immense size. Wonderfully productive 


=~ This new variety is at least one week earlier than any large Pole Lima 
yet offered, and two weeks earlier than most varieties. Earliness often 
means the sacrifice of other valuable features, but in this variety the good 
eu features of the later sorts are retained. It is wonderfully productive, the 
co Or THE UNIQUE EoRDuook pods and beans immengé and the flavor delicious. Price, pkt., 1oc.; pint, 
BUSH LIMA. 30c.; gt., 50c., postpaid; by express, qt., 35c.; peck, $2.00; bush., $7.50. 

The ‘“BurpeejImproved”’ 
Bush Lima 
This new variety, which was offered last year for the first, 
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 Burpee Improved were one and one-quarter 
inches long by seven-eighths of an inch wide and three-eighths 
of an inch thick, while the best that could be found in 
neighboring fields of Burpee’s Bush.Lima were one and one- 
eighth 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 
Bean, while they are ready to use six to eight days earlier. 
Seed, ORIGINATOR’S STOCK, per pkt., 15c.; 
% pt., 35C¢.; pt., 60c., by mail, postpaid. By express or 
freight, pint, 50c.; qt., 85c.; 2 qts., $1.50; peck, $5.00. 

NATURAL SIZE FRESH GREEN BEANS OF THE NEW 
FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA. 
