DWARF OR BUSH LIMA BEANS 
Cultivation of Bush Lima Beans. Select soil that is warm, rich, and well supplied with vegetable matter or humus. 
T lant as early as soil can be worked in the sprang. Prepare the rows 2 feet apart and allow each plant a space of 6 inches 
in the row. As these beans are very slothful in growth a top-dressing of well-rotted manure or some good fertilizer or com- 
post around the plants will aid greatly in hastening maturity, besides increasing the yield. 
Dreer s Bush Lima. A dwarf form of Dreer’s Pole Lima Bean, and it possesses every good feature of 
that well-known variety. These beans grow close together in the pods, producing three to four 
and sometimes five thick, sweet, and succulent beans to the pod. 
Price, .50 per qt. ; .30 per pt.; .10 per pkt. 
Fordhook Bush Lima. — An almost perfect bush Lima bean, of a strong, upright growth, protecting the 
pods from contact with the soil, thus preventing rust and rot. Considered superior to any other 
variety . Price, .50 per qt.; .30 per pt.; .10 per pkt. 
Burpee’s Bush Lima. This sort is a dwarf form of the Large White Lima. Very early and of good 
quality 
Price, .40 per qt.; .25 per pt.; .10 per pkt. 
Henderson’s Bush Lima. — Exceedingly productive, 
Valuable also for the fact that maturity comes 
varieties of Lima bean. Pncc , A0 per 1 . 25 
and will bear continuously all through the summer, 
two or three weeks earlier than any of the other 
per pt. ; .10 per pkt. 
POLE LIMA BEANS 
FOR DIRECTIONS OF CULTIVATION FOLLOW THOSE OF POLE BEANS 
Dreer’s Improved. — An early variety of excellent qualities and great productiveness. 
Price .50 per qt. ; .30 per pt. ; .10 per pkt. 
Large White. — It is considered one of the most tender and delicious beans grown. 
Price .40 per qt. ; 25 per pt. ; .10 per pkt. 
King of the Garden. — A vigorous grower, bearing large pods varying in length from 5 to (i inches. 
Price .40 per qt. ; .25 per pt. ; .10 per pkt. 
Sieva or Small Lima. — A very productive and hardy bean, the earliest of the pole Limas. 
Price .35 per qt. ; .20 per pt. ; .10 per pkt. 
POLE BEANS 
GREEN-PODDED VARIETIES 
Cultivation of Pole Beans. — Pole beans, especially Lima beans, show better results from a warm and very rich, loamy 
soil. The seed should be planted when the soil has become thoroughly warmed through in the spring. Should the ground 
be cold or soggy, the seed will rot. Poles from 5 to 8 feet in length should be set in rows i feet apart and 3 'A to 4 feet 
between the poles. Plant four to six beans around each pole, and as the plants make a showing thin out to three plants to 
the pole. Cultivate freely, and if possible top-dress around each hill with a quantity of well-rotted manure compost or some 
good fertilizer. When hoeing, work this dressing well into the soil. Sprouted Lima beans transplant easily. Climbing 
varieties of French beans may be sown under glass whenever desired, in pots large enough to allow staking. Be cautious 
in sowing the French varieties out of doors until quite sure that the warm season is well established. One quart of pole 
beans will plant two hundred hills. One quart of pole Lima beans will plant but one hundred hills. 
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