24 Vegetables Are Never So Good as When Picked Fresh from the Home Patch 
Burpee’s Improved Bush Lima 
Lazy Wife Pole Beans 
74 days. Excellent for snaps, green shell and dry 
shell beans for home and market garden. Good 
climber, heavily productive. Pods medium green; 
6-614 inches long, 3 A inch wide, thick, straight, 
fleshy, stringless, brittle, tender; seeds plump, 
white. Pkt. 10 cts., 1 lb. 30 cts., 10 lbs. $2.25. 
London Horticultural or 
Speckled Cranberry 
Snaps 70 days; green shell beans 80 days. Stand¬ 
ard for home and market garden. Good climber. 
Pods 6 inches long, % inch wide, thick, straight, 
stringless; dark green at snap stage, becoming 
yellowish-green splashed with violet-red at green 
shell stage. A trifle later than Improved London 
Horticultural and pods are shorter. Pkt. 10 cts., 1 
lb. 30 cts., 10 lbs. $2.25. 
Golden Cluster Wax 
Long, broad, deep yellow pods of finest quality; 
beans white, pods often 7 inches long and an inch 
broad. Pkt. 10 cts., 1 lb. 30 cts., 10 lbs. $2.25. 
Pole Limas 
King of the Garden 
88 days. Splendid climber, heavily productive. 
Pods 6 inches long, 1 'A inches wide, % inch thick; 
straight, with 4-5 beans. Seeds large. Thick, flat, 
white. An improved form of Large White Lima. 
Pkt. 10 cts., 1 lb. 30 cts., 10 lbs. $2.50. 
Large Green Seeded 
84 days. Seed of a decided green tinge, that is, 
not bleached ivory-white. Unsurpassed in flavor, of 
superior quality, averaging 4 to 5 beans to the pod, 
which are 414 to 514 inches long. Pkt. 10 cts., 
1 lb. 30 cts., 10 lbs. $2.50. 
Seibert’s Early Lima 
80 days. Early and dependably productive for 
home, market garden, and for canning. Pods 5 
inches long, 1 Vs inches wide, 3 /a inch thick. Seeds 
large, thick; white. Pkt. 10 cts., 1 lb. 30 cts., 10 
!bs. $2.50. 
Lima Beans . Dwarf 
Burpee’s Improved Bush 
75 days. This strain of Burpee’s Bush Lima has 
beans of larger size and deeper green color than the 
old strain and the vines are more true to the bush, 
forms with fewer runners. The beans are both larger 
and thicker than the old form and the pods are also 
larger. Pods 4!4 to 5 inches long, 1 Vs inches wide, 
% inch thick. Usually contain 4 large, thick beans. 
Pkt. 10 cts., 1 lb. 35 cts., 10 lbs. $3.25. 
Fordhook Bush Lima (Potato Lima) 
75 days. Plant large, erect, heavily productive. 
Pods 4 to 414 inches long; stout, 1 Va inches wide, 
14 inch thick; contain 3 to 4 seeds. Green shell 
beans large, very plump, of the highest quality. 
Those who prefer the thick potato Limas will find 
this strain far superior to any other. It is the most 
profitable variety to raise for market when the 
beans are sold in the pods. Dry beans large and very 
plump. Seeds white. Pkt. 10 cts., 1 lb. 35 cts., 10 
lbs. $3.25. 
Artichoke 
Green Globe. The standard variety for home, mar¬ 
ket garden and shipping; widely grown in Cali¬ 
fornia; heads large, globular, deep green; scales 
very fleshy at base. Seed may be planted in 
March or April. When large enough to trans¬ 
plant they should be set in rows four feet apart 
and about two feet apart in rows. Pkt. 10 cts., 
14 oz. 30 cts., 1 oz. 50 cts., Va lb. $1.50. 
Asparagus 
1 Ounce for 50 Foot Drill; 4 Pounds to Acre 
Mary Washington. The Department of Agriculture 
has developed two strains of Washington As¬ 
paragus; that is Martha Washington and Mary 
Washington, but the latter has proven to be the 
most highly rust resistant, and most hardy and 
productive of the two. The shoots are long, 
straight, thick, and heavy; dark green the entire 
length, except tinted darker at the tips. Pkt. 10 
cts., oz. 15 cts., Va lb. 40 cts., 1 lb. $1.40. 
Palmetto. This has been the most popular variety 
for general gardening purposes. Matures early, 
very prolific, producing an abundance of deep 
green shoots. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 15 cts., Va lb. 50 
cts., 1 lb. $1.30. 
Asparagus Roots 
Allow 5,000 to 7,000 roots per acre. 
Mary Washington. Two year root, per 25 60 cts., 
per 50 $1.00, per 100 $1.75, per 1,000 $13.00. 
