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WM. C. BECKERT, ALLEGHENY, PA. 



HEHDERSON'S NEW BUSH 

 LIMA BEAN. 



BUSH LiriA BEANS. 



If by MaU add 15c per Quart for Postage. 



^ 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 continent. 

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

 to recognize. The most valuable characteristics of Bush Lima 

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

 ahead of am^ of the others, thus supplying us with a delicious 

 vegetable at a time when the garden "is somewhat bare. It is 

 enormously productive, bearing continuously throughout the 

 summer until killed by the frost. Its greatest merit, of course, 

 lies in the fact that it is a true bush variety, requiring no sup- 

 port 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^ 

 qiytt}itity and earliness. Large pkt. lOc ; qt. 40c; pk. S2.50. 

 \/ Burpee's Bush Lima. A really grand acquisition, and. in our 

 opinion, the most valuable vegetable novelty introduced for many 

 years. VVe-have tested it during the past two years, and find it fully 

 up to what is claimed for it. Although a large form of bush lima 

 been has long been desired, its realizations has hardly been ex- 

 pected. It is a perfect form of the true large lima been;, each bush 

 will produce from 50 to 200 large handsome pods, well filled with 

 the large beans. The illustration, as here represented, is an ac- 

 curate reproduction from nature. It comes entirely true from 

 seed, and is of incalculable value for the reason that now the largest and best limas can be raised 

 in quantity without the expense and labor attached with the use of poles. This lima been 

 originated 6 years ago in a field of long limas. Only one single dwarfed plant was found in the 

 whole field, from which the seed we now offer originated from. The permanency of the strain seems 

 to have been fixed from the start, as succeeding crops developed the true bush form of their parent. 

 It is a noteworthy coincidence that this and the preceding variety of bush limas, should hi 

 originated at about the same time. 



We hope all of our customers will give this valuable acquisition a trial; we can recommend it| 

 with the utmost confidence. Per. pkt. 15c, >^ pt. 40c, pt. 75c, qt. $1.40 postpaid; by express $1.25 1 

 per qt. 



Will Bush Limas ruu up a wire ? This question is asked in Rural Ne-^v Torher of Aug. 16. "Some 

 years since I gave my experience with several acres of Henderson's Bush Limas. I have grown 

 them every year since on a more or less extensive scale. This year I grew about one-third of an 

 ere, of which only five or six plants were running beans. The past spring I iDlanted from 13,500 

 to 14,000 of BuRPEK's Bush Limas, and of the whole number only four were runners. The 

 foliage is lighter in color and larger than Henderson's, and is like that of the regular lima, whilst 

 the growth of the bush is magnificent, Averaging three times, or over, the size of Henderson's, 

 some being five or six times the size of the best of the latter. I measured two of Bur- 

 pee's plants, one of which measured across three feet by three feet ten inches, and the other 

 three feet nine inches by three feet four inches; the average height of the two plants was one foot 

 six inches; height of the tallest branch one foot nine inches. The average size of the plants in 



the patch would be 

 at least I-jl'o feet 

 in diameter. The 

 plants are now 

 crowded with 

 blooms, and on one 

 smaller than the 

 two specified, I 

 counted 46 pods in 

 various stages of 

 maturity, not 

 counting the little 

 fellows just drop- 

 ing blooms; this 

 was the only plant 

 on which I count- 

 ed the pods. The 

 bean pods as well 

 as the beans there- 

 in are truly huge, 

 and all that any 

 one could ask. I 

 think that the fact 

 that there are very 

 few runners in so 

 large a number 



planted shows that Burpee's Bush Lima, 



the variety is remarkably true. Many per- 

 sons suppose both Henderson's and Burpee's 

 will prove running plants, but if they are left 

 alone thej- will prove true bush. 

 Burpee's Bush Lima. W. A. SMITH. Sumter Co., Ga." 



