Dreer’s Reliable VEGETABLE SEEDS 
Health Value of Fresh Lima Beans 
Calories per lb. 570 Vitamins A, B 
Proteins 7.1% _ Carbohydrates 22.0% 
Fats .7% Iron .0024% 
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Fordhook Bush Lima Beans 
107 Fordhook Bush Lima. This 
variety is well known wherever Lima 
Beans can be grown as it combines pro- 
ductiveness with choice quality. The 
plants make a vigorous, upright growth 
so that the pods are held well above the 
soil surface. This keeps them clean and 
avoids rust and rot. The pods are borne 
in clusters which accounts for the pro- 
ductiveness of this splendid variety. 
Each pod is about 5 inches long and 
contains 4 or 5 oval, very thick, light 
green beans which have a distinctive 
rich nut-like flavor. It is a great seller 
on all markets and a good variety for the 
home gardener. Pkt. 10c; 4 lb. 25c; 
Ib. 40c; 2 lbs. 75c; 5 Ibs. $1.75, prepaid. 
109 MHenderson’s Bush Lima. This is 
the popular Baby Lima Bean—a bush form 
of the Small or Sieva Pole Lima. It is grown 
extensively by those who prefer small sized 
beans. Very productive bushes, 20 inches 
high, bearing a magnificent crop of pods 
3 inches long each containing 3 or 4 small 
white beans. Pkt. 10c; 4 lb. 25c; lb. 35c; 
2 Ibs. 60c; 5 Ibs. $1.45, prepaid. 
Bush Lima Beans 
Culture —Lima Beans are very susceptible to cold and seeds should not be 
planted until the ground has become thoroughly warm. Sow about the same time 
that late trees, like Oaks, unfold their first leaves. Being gross feeders, they should 
be sown on well-enriched land, with the rows 2} feet apart, placing the beans six 
inches apart in the row, eye down. The two halves of the Lima Bean seed become 
its seedling leaves and unless the Beans are placed ‘“‘eye down” the young plants 
find it most difficult to push through the soil. In light soil, cover about one inch 
deep, less on heavier soils. A good fertilizer applied at the rate of 20 pounds to 
every hundred feet of row, when the plants 
begin to bloom, will materially increase the 
yields. Hill plants slightly earlier in the 
season to hold the pods off the ground. One 
pound will plant 50 feet of row. 
111 Dreer’s Wonder Bush Lima. The 
most desirable Bush Lima Bean because it 
is extremely early and very productive. The 
plants are of strong upright bush growth. 
They are heavily laden with large pods 
many of which contain 4 beans each. These 
beans are fully as large as those of Pole 
Limas. Many gardeners pronounce the 
broad, flat beans much superior in flavor 
to those of the round, thick-seeded varieties. 
On account of its earliness, Dreer’s Wonder 
Bush Lima can be planted well on into the 
season without much risk of failure. We 
highly recommend it and suggest that you 
give it a thorough trial this year. Pkt. 10c; 
2 |b. 25c; lb. 40c; 2 lbs. 75c; 5 Ibs. $1.75, 
prepaid. 
103 Burpee Improved Bush Lima. A 
splendid bean with pods measuring 5} to 6 
inches in length and containing 5 or 6 
moderately thick, flat, white beans of good 
flavor. It is a productive variety of de- 
licious flavor even when fully grown. 
Pkt. 10c; 4 lb. 25c; lb. 40c; 2 lbs. 75c; 
5 lbs. $1.75, prepaid. 
105 Dreer’s Bush Lima. This excellent 
bean matures about a week or 10 days later 
than Dreer’s Wonder Bush Lima. It is 
particularly recommended to home gardeners 
because it combines productiveness with 
choice quality. The beans are packed close 
together, 4 or 5 to a pod. They are thick 
and have a most delicious, sweet, and luscious 
flavor. It is a great favorite with many 
gardeners. Pkt. 10c; 3 lb. 25c; lb. 45c; Sheen Gone 
2 Ibs. 85c; 5 lbs. $2.00, prepaid. Bush Lina Bean 
110 McCrea’s Bush Lima 
This new variety is of considerable merit. The feature that will appeal to 
most gardeners is the fact that it has a remarkably sweet flavor. The plants are 
strong and upright carrying an abundance of heavy foliage. The light green, 
short, but very thick pods are equally as abundant and each pod contains from 
3 to 5 large plump rich green beans which are so tightly packed in the pod that 
many of them are almost square. Highly recommended to the home gardener 
and canner. Pkt. 15c; 3 lb. 25c; lb. 45c; 2 Ibs. 85c; 5 lbs. $1.95, prepaid. 
McCrea’s 
Bush Lima 
All Vegetable Seeds offered in this catalog are forwarded, transportation paid, anywhere in the oD) 
United States, we reserving the privilege of shipping by parcel post, express, or freight 
