OLDS’ LIMA BEANS— bush varieties 
NOTE: Plant Limas with the eyes down and in a warm location. Do not plant until the soil is thoroughly 
warm. Lima beans should be harvested while they are still green. 
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BUSH LIMA 
14. NAVY BEAN or BOSTON BAKED BEAN, as it is sometimes called. Popular 
since the time of the Civil War. Primarily a Field Bean but deserves a place in the garden. 
Don’t give it rich soil. Cultivate well, but never cultivate or disturb any crop of beans while 
wet with either dew or rain, as it is always sure to produce rust or blight. Pkt., 5c; V 2 Lb., 
20c; lb., 35c; 2 lbs., 55c; 5 lbs., $1.00, postpaid. 
34 V2. FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA. (75 days.) The highest in quality and the most prolific of all the Bush 
Lima Beans. An improved variety with plants growing erect and bearing well above the ground. Pods are medium 
green in color; from four to five inches long, and produced in large clusters; they contain from 3 to 5 large beans each 
of fine quality. The beans are white, with greenish tinge, thick and meaty. Large 2-oz. pkt., 10c; V 2 lb., 28c; 
lb., 50c; 2 lbs., 90c; 5 lbs., $1.80, postpaid. 
31. HENDERSON’S BUSH LIMA. (Butter Bean.) (68 days.) A small bean. The bush is not large, but 
the variety is earlier than any other Bush Lima. Pods are small containing 3 or 4 small, flat, white beans of good 
quality. A popular variety with canners. It is like the Golden Bantam Corn in that it is small, early and very good. 
We recommend this variety of Lima for the home garden, because of its quality and extreme earliness. Pkt., 10c; V 2 lb., 
20c; lb., 35c; 2 lbs., 60c; 5 lbs., $1.20, postpaid. 
“The seed we got from you this spring is all grow¬ 
ing fine, every seed must have grown as the rows are 
thick with plants.” 
Mrs. John II. Bond, Wisconsin. 
Burpee’s Improved Bush Lima. 
34. ^BURPEE’S IMPROVED BUSH LIMA. (75 days.) Early, large and produc¬ 
tive. Both beans and pods are larger than in the old Burpee’s Bush Limas, usually averaging 
one more bean to the pod. Also earlier. The bush is vigorous in growth and has a heavy 
foliage. Pods are uniform in size, with an average of five beans to a pod. Beans are large, 
thin skinned and of fine flavor. The pods are borne in clusters and are easily gathered. Large 
2 oz. pkt., 10c; i/ 2 lb., 25c; lb., 45c; 2 lbs., 80c; 5 lbs., $1.60, postpaid. 
OLDS’ POLE LIMA BEANS 
S3. FORD’S MAMMOTH PODDED. (85 days.) The largest podded, finest flavored 
and most productive Pole Lima Bean. The pods average eight inches in length, with from five 
to seven beans in a pod, excellent either green or dry. The vines grow vigorously, set the beans 
early, and continue to bear until frost. Pkt., 10c; V 2 lb., 22c; lb., 40c; 2 lbs.’, 70c, postpaid. 
30. DREER’S POLE LIMA. (80 days.) This variety of Lima is desirable on account 
of earliness and productiveness. The plants are vigorous and covered with large pods, measuring 
3% to 4 inches long with pods well filled and 4 to 5 beans in each pod. Beans are oval in shape, 
thick, sweet and succulent. Pkt., 10c; y 2 lh., 22c; lb., 40c; 2 lbs., 70c, postpaid. 
39. SCARLET RUNNER. (90 days.) A pole bean that is really a climbing bean and 
very ornamental. The blossoms are scarlet, the pods a beautiful green, shading to wine color 
when ripe. The large, showy leaves are about the same color. Seed reddish brown, mottled 
black. Planted mostly for ornamental purposes but the beans are good to eat, both as snap 
and shelled beans. Pkt., 10c; V 2 lh., 30c; lb., 50c; 2 lbs., 90c, postpaid. 
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FOR GARDEN BEANS. Means you will get a more 
robust vine, a heavier crop and make this legume enrich 
the soil in which it is used. Once tried on garden beans 
you will always use it. It pays for itself ten times over. 
It is not an expense but an investment. Price, Garden 
Size, sufficient for 8 pounds, 25c, postpaid. (The same 
culture may be used for Peas also.) See page 69. 
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