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COLE'S GARDEN ANNUAL. 



HENDERSON'S NEW BUSH 



LIMA BEAN. 



New biJsh lima beaN- 



This is undoubtedly the most valuable vegetable novelty that has 

 been introduced in many years. Thousands have been deterred from 

 cultivating the most delicious of vegetables— the Lima Bean — from the 

 great trouble and expense of procuring the unsightly poles on which to 

 grow them. This is now a thing of the past, as the new bush t-ima 

 grows without aid of stakes or poles, in compact bush form, from 

 fifteen to eighteen inches high, and produces enormous crops of delicious 

 Lima Beans, which can be as easily gathered as the common garden 

 bush Beans. It is at least two weeks earlier than any of the climb- 

 ing Limas, and produces a continous crop from the time it comes into 

 bearing [it is fit for the table in the latitude of Central Iowa, about the 

 middle of July] until frost, and being enormously productive, a very 

 small patch will keep a family supplied with this splendid vegetable 

 throughout the season. This novelty we can recommend to all our 

 customers, who did not give it a trial the past year. It is a most wonder- 

 full cropper, bushes are loaded with pods. Single plants have been 

 grown having over 250 pods on it, which when shelled produced over 

 one pint of dry beans. The beans are of the size of the Small Linx/i, and 

 of the same delicious quality as the Pole Lima. A fine variety for mar- 

 ket gardeners. 



Per pkt., 15 cts., 2 pkts., 25 cts., Ya pt., 40 cts., pt., 75 cts., qt., $1.25. 



GOIiDEN WAX FliAGEOLET BEAN. 



GOLDEN WAX FLAGEOLET BBAN. 



This new and prolific Golden Wax Pole Bean presents a magnifi- 

 cent sight in growth, the vines being crowded with bunches of the 

 long, handsome pods. The pods are 7i4 to 8 Incb^a long, of a rich, 

 golden-yellow color; round, full and fleshy; entirely free, from strings ^ 

 and of superb quality. The vines, while quite young, produce the 

 pods in great abundance near the ground, as early as any dwarf wax 

 bean, and earlier than any other wax pole bean. The vines continue 

 to grow and hears profusely the entire season. In fine quality, extreme 

 earliness and everbearing character tjais neit Pole Bean is unique, and 

 cannot be too highly recommended. 



Per pkt., 10 cts. ; pt., 40 cts. ; qt., 75 cts. 



ed^viand's early tUrnip beet. 



Of all the varieties of Beets " Edmand's Early," is the most thor- 

 oughbred, with the smallest tops, most uniform roots, and of superla- 

 tive quality. Of handsome, round shape, the skin is very deep blood- 

 red in color, tlie flesh also very dark, and exceedingly sweet and tender 

 in quality. The beets grow regularly, of good marketable size. 

 They mature early, and have given the very best satisfaction as a 

 bunch beet in the markets of Boston. 



Per pkt., 5 cts. ; oz., 10 cts. ; >4 lb., 25 cts. ; lb., 75 cts. 



