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BUSH LIMA BEAN 



YIELDS CONTINUOUSLY FROM EARLY SUMMER TO FROST— 

 SUITARLE 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 50 per cent, larger 

 than the original. Though a day or two later, it is still ten days earlier than 

 other busL 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 faot, it 

 5 suitable for all sections. The quality is excellent, possessing the 

 rich buttery flavor common to all Limas. (See engraving.) Price, 

 ;c. 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 tatty, and much 



nicer in every way than the ordinary white bean. I hate 



had them cooked in this way for years, although I know 



practice is not general." 



JAMES PETTIGREW, 

 Hackensack, 



N.J. 





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:XCELLENT 

 BAKING 



" Henderson' 

 like them. 



JOHN A: COLLI. XS. Port Heading, A T . 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 as the 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. 



Reprinted from the New York Tribune Farmer 

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



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 



Avars factor}- can handle the products from three acres fn one day, when the 



beans on the three acres planted on May 10th mature they are gatiiered and 



canned, and this process continues right on from day to day until the entire 



crop is gathered and canned. Mr. Avars 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. Avars 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. Avars would have no trouble in selling 



the beans from one thousand acres. Mr. 



Avars 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 ahfcut 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 gTeen vines 

 are just what is needed by the land." 



"A word about the Lima Beans I got from you. 

 I ever ale. There is nothing like them." 



Mrs. I. If. 



They are by far the grandest 



H VDDMA .V, 



Grand Rapids, O. 



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