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Dwarf or Bush Lima Beans 
 CuULTURE.—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 1 
or 2 plants to each hill. A packet will plant about 25 foot of row; use 1 quart to 100 hills, 12 to 16 quarts 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. 
Fordhook Bush Lima yields fully 334 per cent. heavier crop and in season 
it is from four to six days earlier than most other sorts. 
Packet, 15 cents; pint, 50 cents; quart, 90 cents, postpaid. 
By express or freight, not prepaid, quart, 75 cents; 4 quarts, $2.85; 
peck, $5.25; bushel, $20.00. 
6: 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 and are much larger than any bush lima. 
Packet, 15 cents; pint, 50 cents; quart, 90 cents, postpaid. 
By express or freight, not prepaid, quart, 75 cents; 4 quarts, $2.85; 
z peck, $5.25; bushel, $20.00. 


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64 BURPEE’S IMPROVE 

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 6d days. 
Packet, 10 cents; pint, 45 cents; quart, 85 cents, postpaid. 
By express or freight, not prepaid, quart, 70 cents; 
4 quarts, $2.60; peck, $5.00; bushel, $19.00. 
61 Wood’s Prolific Bush Lima 
The earliest of all limas; a long and continuous bearer 
Grown forits extreme earliness. ‘The pods contain 3 to4 beans of good quality 
Vines are very productive, bearing pods until frost. Ready for the table in 50 days. 
Packet, 10 cents; pint, 45 cents; quart, 80 cents, postpaid. 
By express or freight, not prepaid, quart, 65 cents; 
4quarts, $2.35; peck, $4.25; bushel, $16.00. 

61 WOOD’S PROLIFIC BUSH LIMA BEAN. 
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