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WooD’s 
PROLIFIC 
BUSH LIMA 
THREE TIPTOP BEANS. 
One Green-Pod Bush Bean, One Green-Pod Pole Bean, One Bush Lima Bean. 
One 
packet of each, postpaid, for 25 cents. 

NOXALL POLE BEAN. 
A New Prolific Green Podded Sort. 
I first offered this new pole bean in 1901, 
under the descriptive name of Prolific Green 
Podded. My offer of $50 for a better name was 
secured by Wesley C. Richards, Carleton, Mich., 
who suggested the name selected. Mr. Richards 
Says of this bean: 
“Tt is superb in quality when cooked, which is 
the greatest consideration in a pole bean. It is 
an abundant bearer and early, which are im- 
portant. It remains long in bearing, right on 
till killed by frost, our vines having many pods 
on Oct. Ist, and would have been loaded but we 
ate them as fast as fit. In fact it knocks out 
all pole beans of all kinds to date as a string 
bean and |] name it the ‘Noxall Pole Bean.’ ” 
This Bean is new to my customers, but not 
new to its friends. For a period of 60 years it 
has been grown in one family to the exclusion 
of all other pole beans. Some 18 or 20 years 
ago one of my growers married into this family 
and in addition to securing a wife, also secured 
a few of these beans, with which he was very 
much pleased. Being a practical seed grower, 
he immediately started to improve the bean, 
and changed its character from a flat podded 
variety to a first class réund podded sort. 
Now this bean is a very sure cropper, even 
in bad seasons giving large crops, when other 
sorts have been an entire failure. Pods are 
long, large and tender; exceptionally good either 
for green, snap or shelled beans. 
Packet, 10 cents; pint, 35 cents, postpaid. 
WO00D’S PROLIFIC BUSH LIMA 
A New and Improved Type. 
Large, Early, Vineless and Very Prolific. 
This is a handsome, early and very prolific 
type of the large bush lima bean. It is a’splen- 
did variety, probably destined to supersede all 
the other forms. In fact, the claim is made that 
it is the most valuable improvement introduced 
since the first bush lima made its appearance. 
As to table quality, it is equal to the best. 
The testimony of those who have grown 
Wood’s Bush Lima emphasizes its valuable fea- 
tures. One trucker says it is ‘‘much earlier” 
and “far superior’ to any other bush bean. 
Another says it is as “early or earlier” than any 
other kind, and ‘‘certainly more hardy,” and 
better able to withstand unfavorable weather. 
Another says it does ‘‘everything it is recom- 
mended to do.”’ Another says it is “the finest 
and most prolific’ ever grown. 
The plant makes a larger growth than the 
ordinary bush lima, and never indicates its in- 
tention of producing runners, but retains the 
bush form, and simply loads itself down with 
ods, yielding twice aS much as the old sorts. 
Pit. 10¢.; pt., 80¢.; qt., 50¢e., postpaid. Pk., $1.50. 


















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GIANT 
PODDED 
STRINGLESS | ff 
VALENTINE \\ t 
BUSH BEAN. 
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GIANT PODDED STRINGLESS 
VALENTINE BUSH BEAN, 
Delicious and Tender. — Unexcelled for 
ome and Market. 
This is an exceptionally good, green podded 
variety, with truly giant pods, which further- 
more are always Sstringless. The introducer 
claims it is a week earlier than any other 
strain, that it has more pods, that the pods area 
third larger and more perfectly round and full, 
that it is absolutely stringless and that it sur- 
passes all competitors in crispness and flavor. 
My own experience with it at Briar Crestis very 
satisfactory, and I am deeply impressed with 
its good quality and general availability, It is 
undoubtedly early, of excellent flavor, string- 
less, and with pods unusually long and hand- 
some. This bush bean isa thoroughly good one, 
and I canrecommend it to my customers with- 
out reserve. 
readily and is of first-rate table quality; and 
these are the points of real importance. 



Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 30 cts.; quart, 50 cts., post- 
paid. Peck, $1.50. bay 
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