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FAMOUS ROCK RIVER VALLEY SEED FARMS 
The Best Lima and Pole Beans 
Culture. — Sow as the soil becomes warm and dry, from 
the first part of May (for all except Limas) to the latter 
part of May, in hills 4 feet each way. Limas should not be 
planted until warm weather has fairly set in. One quart 
of Limas will plant about 100 hills, allowing four to five 
beans to a hill and of the smaller sorts about 200 hills. 
Poles 8 to 10 feet long should be firmly set in the hills 
before planting. 
FAMOUS KENTUCKY WONDER, 
OR OLD HOMESTEAD 
The Old Reliable Standard Green Pod Pole Bean. 
Very early and enormously productive, the long 
green pods hanging in clusters from top to bottom of 
pole; entirely stringless. Pods of a silvery green color. 
Packet, 7 cents; Yz pint, 12 cents; pint, 22 cents; quart, 
40 cents. Postpaid. 
WHITE DUTCH CASE KNIFE 
Vines moderately vigorous, climbing well, but twin- 
ing more loosely than some, and so may be used for 
corn hill bean of medium season. Pods become creamy 
white as they mature. Of excellent quality, whether 
used green or dry. Packet, 6 cents; pint, 12 cents; 
pint, 22 cents; quart, 40 cents. 
MAMMOTH PODDED 
HORTICULTURAL 
The mammoth pods are striped and splashed with 
exceedingly brilliant crimson. The beans, when in con- 
dition for use, are of immense size, of the finest quality 
and when dry are colored and marked in the same way 
as the pods. Packet, 5 cents; Yi pint, 10 cents; pint, 
18 cents; auart, 35 cents. 
LAZY WIFE 
Enormously Productive. Excellent Quality. 
The pods are produced In great abundance, and 
measure 6 inches in length. They are broad and thick, 
fleshy and entirely stringless. The pods retain their 
rich, tender, and stringless qualities until nearly ripe, 
and at all stages are peculiarly luscious. Each pod 
contains from 6 to 8 round white beans, which make 
excellent winter shell beans. Packet, 6 cents; Y2 pint, 
12 cents; pint, 22 cents; quart, 40 cents. 
LAZY 
FE'S POLE BEAN 
KENTUCKY WONDER 
KING OF THE GARDEN LIMA (POLE) 
Vines very vigorous. Pods very long, filled with four or five immense white beans o( 
the finest quality. On account of its large pods it is a favorite with market gardeners. 
Packet, 6 cents; Y2 pint, 12 cents; pint, 22 cents; quart, 40 cents. 
LARGE WHITE LIMA (POLE) 
Vine tall growing, vigorous, but slender; leaves medium sized, smooth, light green; pods 
borne in clusters, long, broad, very thin, dark green; seed very large, flat, greenish white. 
Packet, 5 cents; Y2 pint, 10 cents; pint, 18 cents; quart, 35 cents. 
BURPEE'S IMPROVED BUSH LIMA 
BURPEE'S IMPROVED BUSH 
This is claimed by the introducers to be superior to the old standard Burpee's Bush Lima. Grows more vigorous, 
with heavier foliage; miUure.s sixteen days earlier. Beans are larger and of better quality. It Is the earliest of the 
large Bush Limas. Vines are very proline. Packet, 8 cents; Y2 PInt, 15 cents; pint, 25 cents; quart, 45 cents. 
