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PETEH HE^^DEl^SOrl & CO.— VEGETRBliE SEED ^SlOVELiTIES. 



THE THHEE BUSH liUVLAS. 



It is ratlier remarkable that within three years BUSH FORMS of three distinct varieties of Pole Lima Beans 

 should appear. While all three are entirely distinct, we feel justified in claiming that Henderson's Bush Lima 

 will prove of really more value to horticulture than either of the large forms, for while the bean is smaller yet 

 it is decidedly more prolific and from two to three w^eeks earlier than either of the other sorts, thus filling a 

 place that nothing else does. We trust that our customers w^ill give all the three varieties a thorough test 

 this season. 



HENDERSON'S NEW BUSH LIMA BEAN. 



No novelty that has ever been sent out has received as ■wide distri- 

 bution, in so short a time, as Henderson's Bush Lima. A few years ago 

 the entire stock of this variety vras growing on an obscure plantation in 

 Virginia; to-day it will be found in almost every gai-den on this conti- 

 nent. This has been due to its great merit, which the public were quick 

 to recognize. One of the most valuable characteristics of Henderson's 

 Bush Lima is its extreme earliness, as it comes in from two to three 

 weeks ahead of any of the other climbing or Bush Limas, thus supplying 

 us with a delicious vegetable at a time when the garden is somewhat 

 bare, filling in, as it does, the gap between Peas and the Pole Limas. 

 The small size of Henderson's Bush Lima, which at first was urged as 

 an objection to it, has proved one of the strongest points in its favor, as 

 the public, rightly enough, prefer small beans, always associating great 

 size in beans or peas with coarser quality. 



Henderson's Bush Lima is enormously productive, bearing con- 

 tinuously throughout the summer until killed by the frost. Its greatest 

 merit, of course, lies in the fact that it is a true bush variety, requiring 

 no support from stakes or poles, but at the same time, the experience of 

 all who have grown it has been, that it excels as well in quality, quantity 

 and earliness. (See cut.) 10 cts. per pkt., 30 cts. per)^ pt., 50 cts. per pt., 

 75 cts. per qt. 



Last year I grew Hender- 

 son's Bush Lima and was 

 very favorably impressed 

 with it. . . It grew well and 

 tore copiously and kept in 

 good bearing condition for 

 a long time, and the quality 

 of the teans was excellent. 

 . . . Seeds sown May 6th (^ 

 made fine bushy, branchy t>p--v- 

 plants and cropped heavily. 

 I began picking July21, etc, 

 Wm. FiiCOKEE, N. Y. 



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HENDEEbON b BL'iH LIMA BEAN. 



Samples of the Hundreds of Testimonials we receive about Hehderson's Bush Lima Buns, 



Your Dwarf Lima Beans are great for this country. I have had great crops last year and this. 

 Pole Lima would not do here. — J. P. Blbchall,, N. D., Sept. 22, 1891. 



The dollar's worth of Bush Lima Beans purchased from you last spring did remarkably well. They 

 were ready forthe table I think three weeks before the Pole Limas planted at the same time, and continued 

 bearing until killed with frost. I consider them very valuable. I exhibited them in bearing at our Farm- 

 ers' Club, and each member wished some for seed, which I furnished them.^Enwix Waeton, Pa. 



I tried last season your Bush Lima Beans ; found them all you represented them : the most wonderful 

 producers and greatest novelty I ever heard of. Think you deserve all the praises you have received, and 

 more too, for introducing this wonder. — Mrs. Sai,lie Russell, Va. 



I exhibited, at the Queens County Agricultural Fair, your Bush Lima Beans, and was awarded discre- 

 tionary premium ; we consider it the best Bean grown. — Mrs. John Willeis, N. Y. 



1 have raised Lima Beans 34 years ; your Bush Lima beats them aU.— Smith Knapp, N. Y. 



Have_given your Bush Limas a good trial, and consider it an excellent addition to the vegetable king- 

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BUSH 

 LIMA 



SPECIAL OFFER 



BURPEE'S BUSH EIMA. 



This is a bush form of the well-known Large "White Lima Bean. It is 

 very fixed in its bush character, growing to a uniform height of about 

 twenty inches. While not so early as Henderson's Bush Lima, its larger 

 size will commend it to many. The pods are of the exact size of the Large 

 Pole Limas and contain as many beans of the same delicious quality. 

 (See cut.) trice, 20 cts. per pkt. 



DREER'S BUSH LIMA. 



Dreer's Improved Pole Lima, or, as it is sometimes called, "Potato 

 Lima, has been grown for years, the beans growing close together in the 

 pods, and being very thick, sweet and succulent, and generally considei'ed 

 of finer quality than the Large Pole Lima. The bush form is entirely 

 fixed in its cliaracter, growing from one and one-half to two feet in 

 height and of vigorous bush habit. This variety, fi-om its abundant foli- 

 age, always succeeds better in a dry than in a wet season, and we would 

 advise, if possible, in planting it to plant it at least two feet apart and on 

 light, sandy soil, if practicable. (See cut.) 



Price, 20 cts. per pkt. 



PACKET OF EACH OF THE THREE BUSH LIMAS, FOR 40 CTS. 



