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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1899. 
Reaps.— [Pole) 
A standard vegetable, fine for either “snap” or “shell,” 
green or dry beans. Easily grown. Do not. plant until the 
ground begins to get warm, and never hoe while the leaves 
are wet, as it tends to rust. Give pole soi f .s support early. 
Golden Wax Flageolet Deservedly a popular variety* 
Robust vines crowded with clusters of wax-like, golden- 
yellow pods, full, fleshy and stringless, and quality of 
the very best. A handsome light color when cooked. 
Pkt., 10c.; pint, 30c.; quart, 50c. 
Lazy Wife’s—The old standby. A 
good cornfield Bean, and un¬ 
surpassed as a general garden 
sort. Never fails to produce 
loads of round, thick-fleshed 
pods, fine for snaps and last 
long in perfect condition. Fine 
as a shell Bean also, and of 
superior quality. Pkt., 10c.; 
pint, 30c.; quart, 50c. 
Yard Long or Cuban Asparagus 
—This is a real curiosity. We 
have measured pods over.three 
feet long, though two feet is a 
more common length. Quality 
very good, and pods freely 
borne. Pkt., 15c.; pint, 50c. 
Early Golden Cluster— This bears 
a profusion of handsome gold¬ 
en pods, six to eight inches 
long, and continue in bearing 
a long time. Pkt., 10c.; pint, 
25c.; quart, 50c. 
Childs’ HortlcuItural The old 
Horticultural, with the excep¬ 
tion of the Limas, enjoyed the 
distinction of being the finest 
flavored Shell Bean known, 
lazy wife’s. and was also considered very 
fine as a Snap Bean Unfor¬ 
tunately it was a poor bearer, but we have come into 
possession of a strain where this defect has been bred 
out. This new strain will be found to be as prolific and 
many seeded to the pod as any other first-class sort, while 
still retaining its rich flavor. beans thick, large and 
round, white speckled and blotched With bright scarlet. 
A fine dry bean for baking or for stewing and serving 
with butter or cream. Pkt., 10c.; pint, 25c.; quart, 40c. 
burpee’8 bush lima. 
piipa Reaps. 
Burpee’s Bush Lima—This grows 18 to 20 inches high, 
of stout growth, erect, branching vigorously into a 
fine circular bush two or three feet in diameter. This 
bush character is permanently established, and not 
two per cent, will attempt to throw up runners. 
Leaves of large size, healthy and vigorous, leathery 
and dark emerald green, showing great health and 
strong constitution. It is the only bush form of the 
large-seeded Lima, and ten times more valuable than 
the small-seeded sorts. Its yield is quite wonderful, each 
bush producing 50 to2()0 large pods, well filled with beans 
of great size, and of the true, rich, luscious, Lima flavor. 
It is a matter of congratulation that we can now raise 
the true large Lima without the trouble and expense of 
obtaining and setting poles. It comes absolutely true 
from seed, and should be found in every garden now that 
we can offer it so cheaply. Pkt.., 10c..; pint. 25c.; quart, 450^ 
Henderson’s Bush Lima -This is a bush variety of the 
small Lima, a very rich, luscious Bean. Pkt., 5c.; pint, 
25c.; quart, 40c. 
Mammoth Podded Lima— (Kino of the Garden.) (Pole.) 
The Limas have a distinct, rich, buttery flavor, very dif¬ 
ferent from all other sorts, and are much liked by most 
people, either to use green or dry. Used as Shell Beans 
only. We consider this variety the finest of all, with 
enormous pods containing four to six immense beans in 
each. Give a hot, sunny location. Boil until tender, 
pour off the water, and season with butter, salt and a 
little cream. Limas cook much quicker than any other 
beans and are incomparably richer. Pkt., 15c.; pint, 
30c.; quart, 55c. 
Willow Leaf Lima (Pole.) On account of its unique ap¬ 
pearance. great productiveness and beauty, this is an ex¬ 
traordinary new Bean. It differs from all other Beans 
in its fine, deeply cut willow-like foliage, wonderful rap¬ 
idity of growth and enormous productiveness. Its slen¬ 
der, graceful growth and beautiful wavy green foliage 
make it quite an ornamental vine, while its rapidity of 
growth adapts it to positions on porches, verandas, etc., 
where shade is needed. In such a position it is not only 
doubly useful but ornamental. One can form some idea 
of its great productiveness when we state that as many 
as 1,729 pods have been counted on one vine. They are 
produced from early until late, are pure white in color 
and of extra flue flavor. Pkt... 10c.; pint, 30c.; quart, 60c. 
Childs’ Horticultural Lima - (Polo.) This novelty is a cross 
between the old Horticultural Bean—the finest flavored 
of all common pole beans and the pole Lima; the rich¬ 
est and most buttery flavored of all beans. In color and 
markings this new cross resembles the Horticultural, 
but is flat like the Lima, while the flavor is a coinbina- 
I tion of these two finest of all beans. This bean is fully 
three weeks earlier than any other Lima, and is also 
1 much more prolific. Pkt., 10c.; pint, 25o.; quart, 40c. 
