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IMPROVED “HEN DERSON” 
BUSH LIMA BEAN 
YIELDS CONTINUOUSLY FROM EARLY SUMMER TO FROST— 
SUITABLE FOR ALL SECTIONS. NORTH AND SOUTH 
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 Bean: where none had grown before, the defect remained until the intro- 
duction of the Improved ‘‘Henderson,” which is at least 5C per cent. larger 
than the original. Though a day or two later, it is still ten days earlier than 
other bus: forms, and weeks earlier than any of the pole varieties, yet retaining 
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 suitable for all sections. The quality is excellent, posse: 
rich buttery flavor common to all Limas. (See en graving.) Price, 
M I5c. pkt., 6oc. pt., $1.00 qt., $3.50 for 4 qts. 
“* 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 white bean. JI have 
Y had them cooked in this way for years, although I know 
the practice is not general.” 
JAMES PETTIGREW, 
Hackensack, N. J. 
“* Henderson’s Bush Lima Bonne are PERS “Nobody around here has anything 
like them. 
JOHN A. COLLINS, Port Reading, N. J. 
“The Henderson, Improved Bush Lima Beans I got from you last spring are doing fine. 
They are excellent 
R. EDGAR SIDNEY, Huntington, Ind. 
“ Have had the most remarkable luck with your seeds. ~The Limas do great here. I picked 
12 bushels of pods, grown from four quarts of. seed last year.” 
H.W.BARROWS, Lake George, N.Y. 
THE LIMA BEAN IS THE GREAT FOOD BEAN FOR AMERICANS 
LIMA BEANS ARE 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. YIELD CONTINUOUSLY from EARLY SUMMER to FROST. 
We earnestly recommend a much more extensive use of Lima Beans as a table food, especially at this time, when it is so necessary to avail ourselves of all 
possible substitutes for animal food, 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 asthe common 
beans, and keep equally well. Lima Beans are much richer and more delicate in flavor than ordinary beans, and are unexcelled for either boiling, baking or canning 
They are also very desirable served as green beans, either alone or eaten with sweet corn in the form of succotash. 
FOR 
BAKING 
Reprinted from the New York Tribune Farmer earted to the factory in large wagons. They go through a thrasher and then 
“A big industry, earried on from start to finish by one man, is the growing of women pick out the white beans “and the rest go through a sieve to separate 
Lima Beans by Clinton Ayars, of Bridgeton, N. ‘J., who plants 150 acres of the green and small green. -The vines and pods are carted from the factory 
this crop and cans all the beans from these acres. back to the farm for fertilizer. The elements contained in the green vines 
He begins to plant usually on May 10th, and’plants three acres each day to are just what is needed by the land” 
July 15th. Beans planted after July 15th rarely mature before frost. . As the 5 
Ayars faetory can handle the products from three acres.in one day, when the. ““A word about the Lima Beans I got from you. They are by far the grandest 
beans on the three acres planted on May 10th mature they are gathered and I ever ate. There is nothing like them."’ : 
canned, and this process continues right on from day to day until the entire Mrs. I. W. HUDDMAN, 
crop is gathered and canned. ‘ Mr: Ayars~workéd for six years to get this Grand Rapids, O. 
system down to this fine point, and knows 
the best way towork. 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 bedn 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 in selling 
the beans from one thousand acres. Mr. 
Ayars knows just the kind of fertilizer to 
use to get the green beans in large quan- 
tities. The reason he plants just three 
acres a. day and harvests three acres a day 
is that three acres a day is the capacity of 
his vining and shelling machine. 
The rows are planted 50 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 
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