Pole Lima Beans are offered on page 18. Plant all Lima Beans with the "eye" down 



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Dwarf or Bush Lima Beans 



Culture. — 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. A packet 

 will plant about 25 foot of row ; use 1 quart to 100 hills, 12 to 16 quarts to the acre. Ready for use in about 60 days. 



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Fordhook Bush Lima 



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



Enormous bearer of plump pods filled with thick, meaty green beans 



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 5J inches long, about 1£ 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, 60 cents; quart, $1.00, postpaid. 

 By express or freight, not prepaid, quart, 85 cents; 4 quarts, $3.25; peck, $6.00. 



64 Burpee's Improved Bush Lima 



Enormous pods of excellently flavored beans; extremely prolific 



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 

 much larger than any bush lima ever known. 



Packet, 15 cents; pint, 60 cents; quart, $1.00, postpaid. 

 By express or freight, not prepaid) quart, 85 cents, 4 quarts, $3.25; pecii, $6.00. 



61 WOOD'S PROLIFIC BUSH LIMA BEAN. 



62 Burpee's Bush Lima 



Beans as large as pole limas ; ready to use 10 to 12 days earlier 



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

 high, and has an erect branching stem. The size and luscious flavor of the bean 

 are exactly the same as with the climbing lima types. 



Packet, 10 cents; pint, 50 cents; quart, 95 cents, postpaid. 

 By express or freight, not prepaid, quart, 80 cents; 

 4 quarts, $3.00; peck, $5.50. 



6i Wood's Prolific Bush Lima 



The earliest of all limas; a long and continuous bearer 



Grown for its extreme earliness. The pods contain 3 to 4 beans of good quality. 

 Vines are very productive, bearing pods until frost. 



Packet, 10 cents; pint, 45 cents; quart, 85 cents, postpaid. 

 By express or freight, not prepaid, quart, 70 cents; 

 4 quarts, $3.50; peck, $4.50. 



Maule's Seeds 



are not supplied to 

 dealers or country mer- 

 chants to sell again. 

 Yon must order them 



lirect from Maule 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



or through some 

 one who is making 

 up a club order in 

 your neighborhood 



