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its cultivation is.,easy and simple, requiring no hills or stakes as 
with the pole Limas, and they are from a week to ten days earlier. 
They require a richer soil and more attention than the snap sorts, 
but well repay the grower for his trouble; as they are more tender 
than the bush varieties they should be planted a week later; they 
do best in a warm loamy soil that is highly manured; the plants 
being somewhat larger more room should be given them than is re¬ 
quired by the snap sorts. 
Burpee^s Bush Lima.—This is indeed a valuable acquisition, 
possessing, as it does, extreme earliness, productiveness, and large 
size, and having that bushy habit of growth it requires no poles or 
stakes whatever for it to run upon; the plant grows from 15 to 24 
inches high, branching freely, forming a bush 12 to 18 inches in 
diameter. The pods are long, producing three or four mammoth 
beans to each; they are tender and of fine flavor. Seed planted 
-May 16th produced marketable beans (in the green state) August 
16th, three months from the time of planting. One hundred pods 
green beans weighed 2.7 pounds; these shelled gave 1.1 pounds of 
beans. 
Henderson’s Bush Lima .—This is a vigorous and productive 
variety, though not so rank a grower as Burpee^s Bush Lima; the 
leaves are of a much darker green. The beans are much smaller, 
and ‘four days later in maturing. One hundred pods, green, weighed 
1.2 pounds; these shelled gave .5 pounds of beans. 
Willow-leaf .—This novelty was brought before the public in 
1891 by W. A. Burpee & Co. It is a distinct variety; the divisions 
■of the leaves are long and narrow, resembling the leaves of the wil¬ 
low, whence the name. It is really wmrthy of growing as an 
ornamental climbing vine, the rich dark green leaves making a very 
pretty effect, with the great profusion of bloom that continues 
throughout the season; aside from its use as an ornamental vine it 
is very productive, though not so early by ten days or two weeks as 
the bush Limas; the pods are larger than those of Henderson’s 
Bush Lima, the beans pure white, tender, and of fine flavor. 
VARIETIES. 
1 
o 
OD 
o . 
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Q 
Weight in lbs. 
Date of 2nd Pick¬ 
ing. 
1 
v 
IK- 
a 
a 
’S 
Date of 3rd Pick¬ 
ing. 
1 
Weight in fi)8. 
1 
■X. 
o 
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;:h 
o . 
-S a 
Q 
Weight in lbs. 
1 
Total Weight of 
Green Beans 
Picked. 
Approximate 
Yield per Acre 
in lbs. 
Weight of Dry 
Beans Picked, 
Approximate 
Yield per Acre. 
'Cylinder Black Wax .. 
July 24 
4.37 
July 28 
11.50 
Aug. 2 
41.60 
Aug. 9 
.59.10 
n6.57 
10,841 
16.31 
1516 
Golden Wax.. 
-Henderson’s Earliest 
July 24 
2.53 
July 28 
8.30 
Aug. 2 
37.40 
Aug. 9 
75.20 
123.43 
11,478 
15.15 
1408 
Red Valentine. 
July 24 
7.48 
J uly 28 
11.30 
Aug. 2 
32.70 
Aug. 9 
45.30 
96.78 
9,000 
15.61 
1451 
Round Six Weeks. 
Yosemite Mammoth 
July 24 
12.92 
July 28 
36.02 
Aug. 2 
55.90 
Aug. 9 
90.00 
194.84 
18,120 
15.55 
1446 
Wax. 
July 24 
.79 
July 28 
1.12 
Aug. 2 
8.00 
Aug. 9 
9.00 
18.91 
1,758 
. 
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