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BUSH LIMAS— BEST KINDS 
T HE earliest of all is Henderson s Improved Bush Lima , 
which is of the type known in the South as Sierra or 
Butter Bean. Its one drawback is its exceptionally small 
size, pods containing but three beans each. However, it 
is most dependable under widely varying conditions of 
soil and season. 
Burpee’s Bush Lima is the standard and most widely 
grown sort in cultivation to-day, bearing large quantities 
of pods with four beans each, in eighty-five days from 
date seeds are sown. Dreer’s Kumerle or Potato Lima is 
a sort with short pods and thick beans. The plants are 
of much more spreading habit than any others described 
here. The prize for quality must be awarded to Ford- 
hook Bush Lima, however, which bears thick pods with 
fat beans on the order of old-fashioned “potato lima’ > 
which are fully as large as those of Burpee’s Bush Lima , 
much thicker through, and of green color. Burpee 
Improved, as illustrated above, is the largest podded sort 
of the dwarf type. 
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