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Dreer's Garden Calendar. 



NEW VEGETABLES, 



Or varieties of recent introduction, and omissions in general list. 



Price, 10 cents per packet, except when noted. 



DRKER'S IMPROVKD LIMA BEAN. 



This variety was introduced 

 to notice in' the Spring of 

 1875, is the result of morethan 

 thirty years careful selection, 

 until it has established its 

 present character, early ma- 

 turity, proliticness and' supe- 

 rior quality ; while the shell- 

 ing becomes an easy matter 

 from the fact of the pods being 

 entirely full, forming one 

 against another like peas in a 

 pod. 

 §1.00 per pint. 20 cts. per packet. 



TESTi:5IOXIAI.S. 



The AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 

 of November, 1874, says: 



" In these beans the pods are not 

 only full, with no spaces between, 

 but are as full as they can stick, the 

 seeds so crowding one another that 

 the ends of the ce!)tral beans are 

 square; the bean i^ much thicker 

 than the ordinary kind. A vine of 

 this kind bearing the same number 

 of pods as one of the ordinary variety 

 would, we should judge, yield nearly 

 if not twice as much' in shelled 

 beans. The pod being so completely filled, the shelling becomes an easy matter, and 

 the beans when cooked are much superior to tlie ordinary ones, as the amount of skins 

 is much smaller in proportion to the enclosed nutriment.' 



"We regard the improving of this bean as one of the most important of the recent 

 contributions to horticultui-e." 



GEO. PAIST, Chester Co., Pa., writes ns under date of 11 Month, 17tb, 1875: 



"I bought of you last spring 120 of Dreer's Improved Lima Beans, planted them on 

 May loth : 119 beans grew and b're the best crop of beans I ever saw ; (my crop of 

 common Lima Beans in the same field were poor:) as some one stole a ^lart of them I 

 cannot give the full C|uantity raised. One pole shelled over four quMrts green beans. 

 A half peck of green pods shelled one-quarter peck of beans. Seven pecks of dry pods 

 shelled 1334 quarts of good beans. My family pronounced them superior when cooked 

 to the old Lima Bean, having more substance and tasting more like a pea. In every 

 respect I consider them superior to any other Lima Bean both in regard to productive- 

 ness and quality. They remain green in the pod a long time after maturing, which is 

 a great benefit to the market gardener." 



DAVID F. GRIER, Salem Co., X. J., Dec 1, 1875, writes as follows: 



" I have cultivated the Large Lima on an extensive scale for six yeare. Tried your 

 Im])roved Lima last Spring with good success ; they were fully one week earlier, and 

 produced 14; to i/^ more shelled beans to the acre under the same treatment, than the 

 Large Lima which were in neighboring fields. Five bushels of dry pods of Improved 

 Lima will shell I bushel of beans, while it takes TVo bushels of Large Lima to shell 

 the same amount. With a seasonable year they will readily produce -To bushels of dry 

 shelled beans to the acre; when green they are nearly a^ large as the oid Lima.'' 



D. H. CHAD WICK. Morgantown. W. Va., Sept. ISth, 1875, writes: 



"In the Spring I bought one dollar's woith of your Improved Lima Beans. I find 

 the quality very fine, shelling out better than the old variety and decidedly sweeter 

 and more tendei'. This is the unanimous verdict of my faa)ily, and we pay special 

 attention to the quality of vegetables brought to the table." 



