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Dwarf or Bush Lima Beans 



'Cuxture.— Succeed best in -warm, sandy loam, enriched with well rotted stable or poultry manure. Must not be sown until the ground is 

 warm and dry. Sow in drills 3 feet apart, placing the eye down, 18 to 24 inches apart in the drills ; or in hills 3 feet apart each way, allowing 1 or 

 2 plants to each hill. Cultivate frequently but shallow. Use 1 quart to 100 hills, 12 to 16 quarts to the acre. 



WOOD'S PROLIFIC BUSH LIMA BEAN. 



DELIVERED FREE by 

 Parcel Post or Express 



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Fordhook Bush Lima 



The only stiffly erect bush form of the popular " potato " Lima 



Both pods and beans are twice the size of Dreer's Bush Lima 



Fordhook produces a strong, erect, true bush-like growth (never prostrate 

 or running). The foliage is of heavy texture and very dark green in 

 color. The stalks that produce the blossoms are thrown out from the lateral 

 and main stalks; the pods are borne in "clusters" of from four to eight. 

 The pods measure from 4 to 5| inches long, about l^- inches wide, by as 

 much as three-fourths of an inch thick. The pods contain three to five 

 large beans with an average of four. 



Fordhook Bush Lima yields fully 33 J per cent, heavier crop and in season 

 it is from four to six days earlier than most other sorts. 



Packet, 15 cents; pint, 45 cents; quart, 80 cents, postpaid. By express or 

 freight, not prepaid, quart, 65 cents; 4 quarts, $2.50; peck, $4.50. 



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Burpee's Improved Bush Lima 



This bean produces "a magnificent crop of pods, which measure from 5 to 6 inches 

 long by 1)4 inches wide. Compared with Burpee's Bush Lima, both pods and beans 

 are much larger, while the beans either-green or dry, are nearly twice as thick. The 

 sturdy bushes are loaded with pods that are truly enormous in size. The luscious 

 green beans are larger than any bush lima ever known. 



Packet, 15 cents; pint, 50 cents; quart, 90 cents, postpaid. 

 By express or freight, not prepaid, quart, 75 cents. 



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BURPEE'S BUSH LIMA BEAN. 



Burpee's Bush Lima 



A dwarf or bush form of the large climbing lima. The plant grows 18 or 20 inches 

 'nigh, and has an erect branching stem. The common yield is from 50 to 200 mar- 

 ketable pods per plant. The size and luscious flavor of the bean are exactly the 

 same «.« with the clm-hing lima types. 



Packet, 10 cents; pint, 40 cents; quart, 75 cents, postpaid. 

 By express GT freight, not prepaid, quart, 60 cents; 

 4 quarts, $2.35; peck, $4.00. 



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Wood's Prolific Bush Lima 



This is a handsome, early and very prolific type of the original bush lima bean. The 

 claim is made that it is the most valuable improvement introduced since the first 

 bush lima made its appearance. The earliest bush lima bean. Of fine table quality. 

 Packet, 10 cents; pint, 40 cents; quart, 75 cents, postpaid. 

 By express or freight, not prepaid, quart, 60 cents; 

 4 quarts, $2.00; peck, $3.75. 



Everything quoted in this seed book is sent you 

 free of all charges, except where specified to go by 

 express or freight, not prepaid. 



