Do not fail to include 60 Improved Fordhook Bush Lima in your order. See page 14 



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Dwarf or Bush Lima Beans 



Inoculate THIS 

 . Seed WITH 



MuLFORD Culture 



CULTUKK.— 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 8 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 pound to 100 feet, 25 to 80 pounds to the acre. Ready for use in 50 to 65 days. 



« 58 Fordhook Bush Lima 



The true stiffly erect bush form of the popular "potato" Lima 



Enormous bearer of plump pods filled with thick, meaty, tender 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 5 J inches long, about 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 33 J per cent, heavier crop and in season 

 it is from four to six days earlier than most other sorts. 



Packet, 15 cents; half pound, 35 cents ; pound, 60 cents, postpaid. 

 Not prepeud, pound, 50 cents; 5 pounds or over at 48 cents per pound; 

 100 pounds, $45.00. 



•it 64 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 1^ 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 stui'dy bushes 

 are loaded with pods that are truly enormous in size. The luscious green beans, ready 

 for use in about 63 days, are much larger than any bush lima. 



Packet, 15 cents; half pound, 30 cents; pound, 50 cents, postpaid. 

 Not prepaid, pound, 40 cents; 5 pounds or over at 38 cents per pound; 

 100 pounds, $35.00. 



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61 WOOD'S PROLIFIC BUSH LIMA BEAN. 



62 Burpee's Bush Lima 



Beans as large as pole limas ; ready to use 10 to 12 days earlier 



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 65 days. 



Packet, 10 cents; half pound, 35 cents; pound, 45 cents, postpaid. 

 Not prepaid, pound, 35 cents; 5 pounds or over at 33 cents per pound; 

 100 pounds, $30.00. 



61 Wood's Prolific Bush Lima 



The earliest of all limas; a long and continuous bearer 



It is a distinct and valuable improvement over the original bush lima. Grown for 

 Its extreme earliness. Its true bush form plants are practically loaded down with 

 pods, which are borne from early in the season and continue till frost. Pods contain 3 

 to 4 beans. Valuable as a shell bean for winter use. Ready for the table in 50 days. 

 Packet, 10 cents; half pound, 25 cents; pound, 40 cents, postpaid. - 

 Not prepaid, pound, 30 cents; 5 pounds or over at its cents per pound: 

 100 pounds, $aa.oo, 



