POPULAR VEGETABLE SEEDS 



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Cbe Cream of the pole Lima Scans 



Our Lima Beans are New Jersey grown and 

 niucU superior in both quality and productive- 

 ness to the California groivn beans, which are 

 now sold by inany seedsmen. 



FORD'SMAMMOTH PODDED 



This grand new Lima Bean is the result of over 

 twenty years' selection by Jas. Furd, one of the oldest 

 and most successfnl market gardeners around Pliiladel- 

 j)liia. In mammoth size, great productiveness and 

 line quality, it far surpasses even such varieties as the 

 King of the Garden, Salem Improved and olher 

 fine sorts. The pods grow to an average length of eight 

 inches, and are produced in great clusters, with from five 

 to seven beans per pod, of most excellent quality, for 

 usirig either green or dry. The vines grow vigorously, 

 setting the beans early at the bottom of the pole, and 

 continue in bearing riglit up to frost. Ford's Mam- 

 mothPodded is without exception thelargest podded, 

 finest flavored and most productive of all liima 

 Beans. Pkt., lOc; pint, 30c.; (jt., 50c., post-paid; by 

 freiglit or express, qt., Sic; 4 qts., $1.00; peck, $2.00; 

 bush., 87.00. 



SEIBEKT'S EARLY LIMA. TheearliesttrueLima 

 Bean. See Novelties, page 2. Pkt., 10c. ; pint, 30c.; qt., 

 sue; peck, 81.85; biisli., S6,75. 



JERSEY EXTRA EARLY LIMA. The pods are 

 large and numerous, invariably having from four to five 

 beans in each pod. These beans appear in Philadelphia 

 markets nearly two weeks ahead of ordinary limas, sell- 

 ing at from 83.00 to 84.00 perbushel of pods, and previous 

 to the introduction of Seibert's Early were considered 

 the earliest. Pkt., lOc; pint, 30c.; qt., 50c., post-paid; qt., 

 35c.; peck, $1.75 ; bush., 86.50, bv express or freight. 



GERMAN CLU.STER LIMA. We first obtained 

 seed of this new variety from a German gardener who 

 had brought them with him when he emigrated to this 

 country. Tliey are early, producing large pods contain- 

 ing five to six beans each in great clusters of ten to 

 twelve. The vines are heavier and leaves liroader than 

 in anv of the American limas. Pkt., .5c; pint, 20c.; qt., 

 350.; peck, S2.00: bush., $7.50. 



THE WILLOW LEAF LIMA. This new Pole 

 Lima Bean differs from all others in its beautiful deeply 

 cut foliage. The pods are of the Sieva or Sewee type, 

 well filled with the pure white beans, which are tender 

 and of fine flavor. Pkt., 5c.; pint, 1,5c.; qt., 30c.; peck, 

 $1.25; bush., 81.50. 



STOKES' EVERGREEN LIMA. The Stokes' 

 Evergreen not onlv holds the full size and great pro 

 duetiveness of the Salem Mammoth, but has the remark. 

 able additional quality of holding, in all stages of grow tli, 

 and even ^vhen dry and shelled, the deep green color of 

 the unripe state, thus giving the dry lieans, when cooked 

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

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

 vine. Pkt., .5c.: pint, 20c.; qt., 40c.: peck, 8-. 25. 



KING OF THE GARDEN LIMA. More prolific 

 than the ordinary lima, bearing pods five to six inches 

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

 apod. Pkt., 10c. ; pint, 25c.; qt., 45c., post-paid; qt.,30c.; 

 peck, 81.611: bush., 86 00. 



HORTICULTURAL LIMA. A cross between the 

 Dwarf Horticultural and Dreer's Improved Lima, com- 

 bining the good qualities of the latter with the earliness 

 of the former. Vines medium-sized, fruiting freely to 

 the ends ; leaves large, coarse, wrinkled, green, resem- 

 bling Dwarf Horticultural ; pods borne in clusters, tnree 

 to six inches in length, flat, almost .straight. Pkt., 

 5c.; pint, 15e.; qt., 3(lc.; peck, 81.25; bush., 84.75. 



DREER'S LVIPROVED, or CHALLENGER 

 POLE LIMA. This popular bean when green is as 

 large ,as the Large Lima, thicker, sweeter and more 

 tender and nutritious, remaining green in the pod for a 

 long time after maturing. Pint, 15e.; qt., 30c.; peck, 

 $1.50 ; bush., $5.50. 



SALEM IMPROVED LIMA. A selection from 

 the Large Lima Bean , of extraordinary si ze and general ly 

 of a deep green color. Pint, 20c.; qt., 35c.; peek, 82. UO; 

 bush., 87.00. 



LARGE WHITE LIMA. (Extra Selected Size.) 

 The well-known favorite, eitlier green or dry. Uiir 

 strain is fine. Pint, 15o.; qt., 30c.; peck, 81.50; bush 

 85.50. 



Carolina, or Sewee. Beans about half the size of 

 Large Lima. Pint, 1.5c.; qt., :30c.; peck, 81.50; bush., 86.26. 



