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Improved " Henderson" Bush Lima Bean 



Yields Continuously from Early Summer to Frost — Suitable for All Sections of the North and South 

 Bush Lima Beans are now considered a necessity in almost every garden. This popularity is due to their dwarf, bushy growth, requiring no 

 poles or brush. There are several types of Bush Limas, all of which have their particular merits, but all points considered, the type we intro- 

 duced — the "Henderson" Bush Lima — has stood the test of time, and is now more largely grow.11 than all others combined. The only adverse 

 criticism made on the original variety was the small size of the individual bean. In the Improved "Henderson" this is entirely overcome, as 

 it is at least 50% larger than the original, and, further, they are plump, very tender, and of exquisitely rich, true, buttery Lima flavor, whether 

 used green, or dried for winter. 



For earliness and continuous productiveness the Improved "Henderson" is a' veritable " pick-and-come-again" Lima Bean until killed by frost. 

 It is at least 10 to 12 days earlier than other types of Bush Limas, and 2 to 3 weeks earlier than Pole Limas; this enables them to be grown in 

 many sections of the country where the seasons are too short for other Limas. Because of this extreme earliness, thousands of our customers are 

 enabled to grow Lima Beans where none have been grown before. (See opposite page.) Price, 15c. pkt., 50c. pt., 90c. qt., $3.25 for 4 qts. 



DREER'S 



Bush Lima Bean 



This variety of Bush Lima Bean is desirable on account of earliness, 

 productiveness 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., 50c. pt., 

 80c. qt., $3.00 for 4 qts. 



On page 11 will be found several delicious cooking recipes for Lima 

 Beans in their dried state. Lima Beans are the best for either boiling, 

 baking or canning, being far superior to the ordinary white bean of 

 commerce. 



FORDHOOK 



Bush Lima Bean 



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 Kumerle. 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 full 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., 50c. pt., 90c. qt., $3.25 for 4 qts. 



Henderson's New Early Giant Bush Lima Bean 



PLANTS TRUE. BUSH, ENORMOUS PODS AND BEANS, PRODIGIOUS YIELDERS UNTIL FROST 



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, 1}2 feet in height, are of healthy, sturdy, upright growth — requiring neither poles nor stakes — and bear, from July until frost, 

 almost unbelievable quantities of 5 to 6 inch pods, each containing usually four large, thick beans averaging a's 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 being unusually fleshy and thick and the foliage 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 supply of this most delicious of beans may 

 be gathered. (See engraving.) Price, 15c. pkt., 2 pkts. for 25c, 60c. pt., $1.00 qt., $3.50 for 4 qts. 



"On A pril 30//i I planted one quart of Henderson'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, and so much earlier. Two rows 30 feet long gave us all 

 we c 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 T grow in my town 

 garden of 20x30. / have Henderson's Early Giant Lima Beans to use before 

 our city markets receive them and could retail them at 60c. per quart." 



Mrs. IV. E. LAWRENCE, Columbus, f). 



"I think 1 have tried all Bush Limas thus far introduced and give the palm 

 for superiority to your Early Giant. It proved an early, prolific and continuous 

 bearer of the largest limas, fully equalling in size those of my pole Limas." 



JOHN L. PETERS, Topeka, Kan. 



"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 vegetables on it, 

 including 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 ill 

 every particular. 



"I raised the finest Lima Beans I ever saw." 



P. S. TAYLOR, Lafayette. 7ud. 



For the Original Henderson Bush Lima Bean — The "Baby" Lima, see colored plate page 10 



