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HENDERSON'S 



A FEW OF MANY REPORTS ABOUT 



Henderson's Early Giant Bush Lima Bean 



ALL TELL THE SAME STORY 



New Early Giant Bush Lima Bean 



(See Colored Illustration on Opposite Page) 



This newest and best Bush Lima represents the highest achievement in bean breeding and 

 we offer our patrons, in Henderson's Early Giant, a Bush Lima that has attained the acme 

 of perfection, surpassing any other strain or type on the market. It is the best possible 

 Bush Lima Bean, possessing every quality so long known and esteemed in the older pole 

 varieties, and can be grown as easily as any Snap Bean. It is the earliest of the large bush 

 sorts, and may therefore be had on the table weeks ahead of the old pole varieties. The 

 strong, rugged plants of true bush form, 1J-2 feet in height, are of healthy, sturdy, upright 

 growth — requiring neither poles nor stakes — and bear, from July until frost, almost un- 

 believable quantities of 5 to 6 inch pods, each containing usually four large, thick beans 

 averaging as large as those of the large pole Limas, and whether used green or cured, they are 

 of superb quality — tender, rich and buttery, <■ 

 the true Lima flavor. In the green state 

 their tender freshness is maintained beyond 

 the ordinary, accounted for by the pods be- 

 ing unusually fleshy and thick and the foli- 

 age luxuriant and sheltering. Other merits 

 of this phenomenal Bush Lima are earliness, 

 abundance and continuity of yield. First 

 pickings fit for the table may be taken in the 

 latitude of New York in July, and from that 

 time until killed by frost a continuous sup- 

 ply of this most luscious of beans may be 

 gathered. Price, 15c. pkt., 2 pkts. for 25c, 

 60c. pt., $1.00 qt. 



DREER'S 



Bush Lima Bean 



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This variety of Bush Lima Bean is de- 

 sirable on account of earliness, productive- 

 ness and its fixed habit of growing in the 

 dwarf or bush form. It is a bush form of 

 Dreer's Pole Lima Bean. The plants are of 

 strong, upright growth, and are completely 

 covered with large pods, many of which 

 contain four beans. The beans are oval in 

 shape, and thick, sweet and succulent. Price, 

 15c. pkt., 60c. pt., $1.00 qt. 



FORDHOOK 



Bush Lima Bean 



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A stiffly erect Bush form of the "Potato" 

 Lima Bean, bearing well above the ground, 

 and branching freely, but with all 

 the branches held strongly upright. Its 

 ideal bush growth is strikingly in contrast 

 to the low-spreading growth of the Kum- 

 erle. Fordhook Bush Lima Bean has 

 foliage like that of the large pole Limas; the 

 leaves are large, smooth, and a dark rich 

 green. The stalks that produce the blossoms 

 are thrown out from the lateral and main 

 stalks and the pods are borne in " clusters " of 

 from four to eight, are of a medium green 

 color, of a good size and contain three to 

 five large beans of very good quality. The 

 green beans, even when of fidl size, are 

 tender, juicy and sweet in flavor when 

 cooked. The seeds are oval in shape, and 

 very thick, white with a greenish tinge. 

 Price, 15c. pkt., 60c. pt., $1.00 qt. 



PLANTS TRUE BUSH; 



No Poles, No Stakes. 



ENORMOUS PODS AND BEANS; 

 Equaling Those of Pole Limas. 



QUALITY AND FLAVOR; 



Tender, Rich and Buttery — 



The True Lima Taste. 



PRODIGIOUS YIELDER; 



Early and Continuous. 



DELICIOUS GREEN LIMAS: 



From July Until Frost. 



"All those who have tried Henderson's Early 

 Giant Bush Lima Bean recommend it -with the 

 fullest confidence, knowing that it has given entire 

 satisfaction ever since it was sent out by the house of 

 HENDERSON. The plants are completely loaded 

 with large pods, and this peerless variety should be 

 in the gardens of all lovers of Bush Limas, either for 

 home or market purposes." 



WILLIAM E. VAIL, 



Yorktown Heights, N. Y. 

 "On April 30th I planted one quart of Hender- 

 son's New Early Giant Bush Lima Bean. There 

 •were three days of frost on them, but I now have, 

 July 1st, six fine rows with pods on them four to five 

 inches long." 



FRANK E. DEIHL, Flushing, N. Y. 

 " Your Bush Lima Beans — Henderson's Early 

 Giant — were excellent, fully equal to Pole Limas, 

 'ind so much earlier. Two rows 30 feet long gave us 

 all we could use from July until frost and we 

 gathered liberally. They were so delicious." 

 Mrs. CHARLES MORTON, 



Chambersburg, Pa. 

 " I wish to add a word of praise for your seeds, 

 which I grow in my town garden of 20a:30. / have 

 Henderson's Early Giant Lima Beans to use before 

 our city markets receive them and could retail them 

 60c. per quart." 



Mrs. W. E. LAWRENCE, 



Columbus, O. 



"I must say the Henderson's Early Giant are the 

 best Bush Limas I ever grew for size, bearing and 

 flavor. The plants hung full all summer and fall." 

 G. L. JOHNSON, Springfield, Mass. 



" Your Early Giant Lima Beans turned out 

 splendidly last year. We are very pleased with 



J. P. CRANSTON. Smithfield, Pa. 



"I think I have tried all Bush Limas thus far 

 introduced and give the palm for superiority to your 

 Early Giant. It proved an early, prolific and con- 

 tinuous bearer of the largest limas, fully equaling in 

 size those of my pole Limas." 



JOHN L. PETERS, Topeka, Kans. 



"Our order last season certainly brought us 

 wonderful luck. Our garden is a town back lot, but 

 we raised our summer and winter supply of veg- 

 etables on it, includir.g your Bush Lima Beans, also 

 tomatoes, corn, peas, onions, lettuce, etc. 



"I am perfectly safe in saying that our garden will 

 figure in value one hundred and twenty-five dollars. 

 I had two dollars and fifty cents worth of seeds." 

 WILLARD DOWNS, Fredericksburg. Va. 



" I wish to state that the seeds purchased of you 

 last year proved faultless in every particular. 

 I raised the finest Lima Beans I ever saw." 



P. S. TAYLOR, Lafayette. Ind. 



Henderson's Garden Guide and Record, 

 Price 25c. Is sent free with all orders 

 amounting to $2.00 or over. See descrip tion 

 on page 3. 



A Complete and Economical Garden 



may be secured at a consider- 

 able Saving by purchasing our 



Vegetable Seed Collections 



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