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PETEf* HENDERSON & CO.— VEGETABLE SEED J^OVEliTIES. 



THE THHEE BUSH lilJWAS. 



It is rather remarkable that within three years BUSH FORMS of three distinct varieties of Pole Lima Beans 

 should appear. While all three are entirely distinct, we feel justified in claiming that Henderson's Bush Lima 

 will prove of really more value to horticulture than either of the large forms, for while the bean is smaller yet 

 it is decidedly more prolific and from two to three weeks earlier than either of the other sorts, thus filling a 

 place that nothing else does. We trust that our customers will give all the three varieties a thorough test 

 this season. 



HENDERSON'S NEW BUSH LIMA BEAN. 



No novelty thai has ever been sent out has received as wide distri- 

 bution, in so short a time, as Henderson's Bush Lima. A few years ago 

 the entire stock of this variety was growing on an obscure plantation in 

 Virginia; to-day it will be found in almost every garden on this conti- 

 nent. This has been due to its great merit, which the public were quick 

 to recognize. One of the most valuable characteristics of Henderson's 

 Bush Lima is its extreme earliness, as it comes in from two to three 

 weeks ahead of any of the other climbing or Bush Limas, thus supplying 

 us with a delicious vegetable at a time when the garden is somewhat 

 bare, filling in, as it does, the gap between Peas and the Pole Limas. 

 The small size of Henderson's Bush Lima, which at first was urged as 

 an objection to it, has proved one of the strongest points in its favor, as 

 the public, rightly enough, prefer small beans, always associating great 

 size in beans or peas with coarser quality. 



Henderson's Bush Lima is enormously productive, bearing con- 

 tinuously throughout the summer until killed by the frost. Its greatest 

 merit, of course, lie3 in the fact that it is a true bush variety, requiring 

 no support from stakes or poles, but at the same time, the experience of 

 all who have grown it has been, that it excels as well in quality, quantity 

 and earliness. (See cut.) 10 cts. per pkt., 30 cts. per 3^ pt., 50 cts. per pt., 

 75 cts. per qt. 



Last year I grew 

 sod's Bush Lima 

 very favorably Impressed 

 with it . . Itgrew wetland 

 bore copiously and Sept In 

 good bearing condition for 

 a long time, and the quality 

 of the beans was excellent. 

 ... Seeds sown May 6th ,, 

 made fine bushy, branchy t^} 

 plants and cropped heavily. 



Samples of the Hundreds of Testimonials we receive about Hudebsoh's Bush Lim Beams. wm^fvjJcon^ -H- it. y. 



Your Dwarf Lima Beans are great for this country. I have had great crops last year and this. The 

 Pel© Lima would not do here.— J. P. Bibchm.t,, — — N. D., Sept. 22. 1891. 



The dollar's worth of Bush Lima Beans purchased from you last spring did remarkably wejl. They 

 were ready forthe table I think three weeks before the Pole Limas planted at the same time, and continued 

 bearing until killed with frost. I consider them very valuable. I exhibited them in bearing at our Farm- 

 ers' Club, and each member wished some for seed, which I furnished them.— Edwin Walton. Pa. 



I tried last season your Bush Lima Beans : found them all you represented them : the most wonderful 

 producers and greatest novelty I ever heard of. Think yon deserve all the praises you have received, and 

 more too. for introducing this wonder.— Mrs. Sat.uk Russell. ■ Va. 



I exhibited, at the Queens County Agricultural Fair, your Bush Lima Beans, and was awarded discre- 

 tionary premium ; we consider It the best Bean grown.— Mrs. John Willets, — — N. V. 



1 have raised Lima Beans 34 years : your Bush Lima beats them all.— Smith Knapp, ■ N. Y. 



Have given your Bush Limas a good trial, and consider it an excellent addition to tbe vegetable king- 

 donx— H. "- M u "" — ~ ' 



BURPEE'S BUSH LIMA. 



This is a bush form of the well-known Large White Lima Bean. It is 

 very fixed in its bush character, growing to a uniform height of about 

 twenty inches. While not so early as Henderson's Bush Lima, its larger 

 size will commend it to many. The pods are of the exact size of the Large 

 Pole Limas and contain as many beans of the same delicious quality. 

 (See cut.) Price, 20 cts. per pkt. 



DREER'S BUSH LIMA. 



Dreer's Improved Pole Lima, or, as it is sometimes called, "Potato 

 Lima, has been grown for years, the beans growing close together in the 

 pods, and being very thick, sweet and succulent, and generally considered 

 of liner quality than the Large Pole Lima. The bush form is entirely 

 fixed in its character, growing from one and one-half to two feet in 

 height and of vigorous bush habit. This variety, from its abundant foli- 

 age, always succeeds better in a dry than in a wet season, and we would 

 advise, if possible, in planting it to plant it at least two feet apart and on 

 light, sandy soil, if practicable. (See cut.) 



Price, 20 cts. per pkt. 



SPECS AL OFFER: I PACKET OF EACH OF THE THREE BUSH LIMAS, FOR 40 CTS. 



HENDERjiL.No HUSH 



