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AN EXACT PHOTOGR-^PHIC REPRODUCTION OF A PLANT OF DREER'S BUSH LIMA BEAN, BEARING ONE 



HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FIVE PODS. 



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THE BEST OF ALL THE DWARF OR BUSH LIMAS. 



This remarkable bean was distributed to a very limited extent last year and has in the past season's 

 trials full}- confirmed our good opinion of its merits. It is a true Bush variety of Dreep's Improved Large 

 Lima, possessing all the good qualities of that excellent and well-known sort. The plants grow from 

 one and a half to two feet high, of vigorous bushy habit, showing no disposition whatever to run, produc- 

 ing pods in great abundance. The beans grow close together in the pods, are very thick, sweet and 

 succulent, and ripen fully ten days earlier than any of the Pole Limas. 



The following notes are taken from trials last summer : 



First planting mad May 4th, matured August 3d, ninety-one days from planting. During growing 

 period the weather war wet and unfavorable. The beans were well set, however, and matured eight 

 days before any of the Pole Limas. The pods of the Bush variety were equally as large and full. 



Second planting made on same soil Maj- 30th, matured August 24th, eighty-six days ; ten days 

 ahead of Dreer's Improved Pole Lima. The beans were better set owing to a longer period of dry weather. 

 Many of the pods contained five beans, and nearly one-half had four in a pod. Where this Bush variety 

 is planted on light, rich soil, it shows an increase in crop and less growth of plant. 



As examples of the productiveness of this bean, we have received many specimens from gardeners 

 who have grown it on trial, bearing from one hundred to one hundred and eighty-five pods. 



With two such varieties as Dreer's Bush Large Lima Bean and Henderson's Bush Lima, which is 

 the Bush form of the Small or Sieva Lima (see page 25), no garden need be without a supply of the truly 

 luscious Lima Bean, and free from the unsightly poles necessary to grow the Pole varieties. 



The supply of seed of Dreer's New Bush Large Lima Bean is so limited this year that we can only 

 offer it in sealed packages at the price of 20c. per packet, 3 packets for 50c., or 7 packets for $1.00. 

 Nor can we sell more than seven packets to any one person. 



