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THE GREAT FOOD BEAN FOR AMERICANS 



THE 

 IMPROVED 



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Henderson" Bush Lima Bean 



(See colored illustration on opposite page.) 



THE BEST FOR BOILING, BAKING OR CANNING— TASTY AND DELICIOUS. 



FAR SUPERIOR TO THE ORDINARY WHITE BEAN OF COMMERCE. 



SUITABLE for all SECTIONS, NORTH and SOUTH. YIELDS CONTINUOUSLY from EARLY SUMMER to FROST. 



We earnestly recommend a much more extensive use of Lima Beans as a table food at this time; when it is so necessary to avail ourselves 

 of all possible substitutes for animal food, which is now so costly. 



Lima Beans are not used as largely as they should be, because it is not generally known that in a dry state they can be used in the same 

 manner as the eommon beans, and keep equally well. lima Beans are much richer and more delicate in flavor than the ordinary beans, and 

 are unexcelled for either boiling, baking or canning, besides their great desirability as green beans, either alone or eaten with sweet corn in the 

 form of succotash. 





We — the pioneer introducers of the Bush Limas — have always 

 realized that the original Bush Lima Bean, the "Henderson," was 

 defective in size, and though, because of its extreme earliness, thousands 

 of our customers were enabled to grow Lima Beans where none had 

 grown before, the defect remained until the introduction of the Im- 

 proved "Henderson," which is at least 50 per cent, larger than the 

 original. Though a day or two later, it is still 10 days earlier than other 

 bush forms, and weeks earlier than any of the pole varieties, yet retain- 

 ing all the remarkable qualities of its predecessor, which was, without 

 doubt, the most remarkable vegetable novelty of the last century. 



The Improved "Henderson" is a perfect all-around variety, it grows 

 as freely and is just as dependable in the North as in the South, in fact, 

 it is the only one suitable for all sections. The quality is excellent, 

 possessing the rich, buttery flavor common to all Limas. Price, 16c. 

 pkt., 60c. pt, $1.00 qt 



THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF HENDERSON'S BUSH 



LIMA BEANS ARE GROWN FOR CANNING ON 



A LARGE SCALE IN NEW JERSEY 



Reprinted from the New York Tribune Farmer 



"A big industry, carried on from start to finish by one man, is the jrowingof Lima 

 Beans by Clinton Avars, of Bridgeton, N. J., who plants 150 acres of this crop and 

 cans all the beans from these acres. 



He begins to plant usually on May 10th and plants three acres each day to July 

 15th. Beans planted after July 15th rarely mature before frost. As the Ayars 

 factory can handle the products from three acres in one day, when the beans on the 

 three acres planted on May 10th mature they are gathered and canned, and this pro- 

 cess continues right on from day to day untill the entire crop is gathered and canned. 

 Mr Ayars worked for six years to get this system down to this fine point, and knows 

 the best way to work. He cannot contract with farmers and get good results, as 

 they would not plant in the order the beans are needed at the factory so he could 

 save and use every bean by canning every day. For this reason Mr. Ayars has 

 bought many acres and uses them for bean culture. There are only three men in 

 New Jersey who follow this plan of from seed to can. One of them plants one 

 thousand acres. Mr. Ayars would have no trouble m selling the beans from one 

 thousand acres. Mr. Ayars knows just the kind of fertilizer to use to get the green 

 beans in large'tjuantities. The reason he plants just three acres a day and harvests 

 three acres a day and cans three acres a day is that three acres a day is_the capacity 

 of his vining and shelling machine. 



The rows are planted fifty inches apart for best results. The "Henderson" Bush 

 Lima Bean is used and the fields of it are a clean and pretty sight. A good 

 vine growth is needed to shade the beans. Both hand and horse cultivators are 

 used constantly to keep them free, from weeds. _When they are ripe a machine is 



used to cut them off just beneath the surface of the ground. They 

 are then forked up in piles about the same as a hay crop and carted 

 to the factory in large wagons. They go through a thrasher and 

 then women pick out the white beans and the rest go through a 

 sieve to separate the green and small green. The vines and pods 

 are carted from the factory back to the farm for fertilizer. The 

 elements contained in the green vines are just what is needed by 

 the land." 



"Henderson's Bush Lima Beans are in my opinion the baking bean 

 par excellence, being very tasty, and much nicer in every way than the 

 ordinary while bean. I have had them cooked in this way for years, 

 although I know the practise is not general." 

 Oct. 12, 1917. JAMES PETTICREW, Hackensack, N. J. 



"For years we used the Henderson Improved Bush Lima Bean for 

 baking as well as cooked in the ordinary way. We would eat no baked 

 beans but Henderson's Bush Limas." 



A. G. KOEPPEN, Hillsdale, N. Y 



"The Henderson Improved Bush Lima Beans I got from you last 

 spring are doing fine. They are excellent." 

 Aug. 30, 1917. R. EDGAR SIDNEY, Huntington, Ind. 



"A word about the Lima Beans I got from you. They are by far the 

 grandest I ever ate. There is nothing like them." 

 April 7. Mrs. I. W. HUDDMAN, Grand Rapids, O. 



"Have had the most remarkable luck with your seeds. The Limas 

 do great here. I picked j 2 bushels of pods, grown from four quarts of 

 seed last year," 

 March 30. H. W. BARROWS. Lake George, N. Y. 



NEARLY 10,000 ACRES 

 PLANTED WITH THE 

 "HENDERSON" BUSH 

 LIMA BEAN in California 



Ranchers Jubilant in San Fernando 



Van Nuys, Feb. 17. — "The rainfall 

 On Monday broke the light crust on 

 the plowed lands and made i t very 

 easy to work up the soil for planting. 



"Approximately 10,000 acres of beans 

 will be planted this year in the valley. 

 Most of the acreage will be planted with 

 the 'HENDERSON' BUSH LIMA 

 BEAN, which are commanding a higher 

 price here than the large Limas." — 

 Reprinted from San Francisco Examiner, 

 Feb. 18, 1917. 



We print the above to show the very 

 extensive use of the "Henderson" Bush 

 Lima Bean for canning purposes on the 

 Pacific coast, and that it is also much 

 preferred to other varieties. 



Send Your Seed Orders in January or February. The Demand For Seeds Will Exceed The Supply This Year 



