J. J. BUTZER, PORTLAND, OREGON 
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O OR WAX PODDED 
BUTTER BEANS 
In the northern latitudes the term “butter beans” is often applied to beans producing wax pods, while in 
the south the term is usually applied to Limas. 
BRITTLE WAX 
Brittle Wax is most attractive, of superb quality, and conceded the “Best of All.” The bushes are remarkably 
hardy and very prolific. The pods are handsome, round, extremely fleshy, and always stringless and tender. They 
measure about 7 inches in length and are slightly curved. Burpee’s Brittle Wax has made a record everywhere 
with its superb quality, extreme earliness, and great productiveness. 
Pkt. 10c; Yz lb. 20c; lb. 35c, postpaid 
DAVIS KIDNEY WAX 
The handsomest of all the early Wax Beans. The pods are long (seven inches) straight, very uniform and 
clear waxy white. The vines are vigorous, very prolific and fairly rust resistant. We are constantly improving 
the variety in this respect, using only the seed from unaffected vines. The dry beans are kidney-shaped, clear 
white and excellent to use as a Navy Bean for baking. For snap beans in the home garden they should be used 
while young, before they become stringy. The best market garden wax bean. 
Per pkt. 10c; lb. 25c; 5 lbs. $1.00, postpaid 
PENCIL POD BLACK WAX 
One of the best round pod wax beans, both for home use and market. Bushy growth, about fifteen inches 
high, heavy foliage. Pods 6 to 7 inches long, round as a pencil, clear yellow, very brittle and stringless, rich 
mild flavor. An early sure cropper of the finest quality. Pkt. 10c Yz lb. 15c; lb. 35c, postpaid 
IMPROVED GOLDEN WAX 
Pods rather flat, but of good quality ; four inches in length, half an 
inch broad, of light golden yellow; quite brittle, with only slight strings 
when young. Plants stiffly erect, bearing a large crop of fine pods held well 
above the soil. Per pkt. 10c; Yz lb. 20c; lb. 25c; 5 lbs. $1.00, postpaid 
Bush Lima Beans 
Culture—Select land that is especially warm, rich and well 
supplied with vegetable fibre or humus. Plant as soon as the 
soil has become warm in the spring. Make the rows 2 feet 
apart and give to each plant 6 inches space in the row. A 
top-dressing of poultry manure, ashes, or some good fertilizer 
or compost around the plants will be of much benefit in 
hastening maturity and increasing the yield. 
Burpee’s Bush Lima—Comes absolutely true from seed. The bushes 
grow eighteen to twenty inches high, stout growth and always erect, yet 
branching so vigorously that each plant develops into a magnificent circular 
bush from two to three feet in diameter. It is an immense yielder, the 
handsome large pods being well filled with very large beans, identical in 
size and luscious flavor with the well-known large Pole Beans. 
Per pkt. 10c; Yz lb. 15c; lb. 30c, postpaid 
Burpee-Improved Bush Lima—This is the finest Bush Lima that has 
ever been introduced. The bush is sturdy in habit and twenty to twenty-four 
inches high, with large leaves. It bears its beans on long spikes in very 
prolific clusters well out from the plant. There are from four to seven 
pods in each cluster and often as many as eleven. Each pod contains three, 
four or five beans and there are more pods containing five than there are 
containing three beans, so that there is an improvment of from one to two 
beans in each pod, and this, taken with the great number of pods borne, 
makes the yield enormous. In quality this bean ranks with the very best 
and the beans are of large size. In earliness it comes between Henderson’s 
and Burpee’s Bush, and is about a week earlier than the latter variety. 
This bean is bound to be the greatest, most popular Bush Lima—a con¬ 
tinuous bearer. Per pkt. 10c; Yz lb. 15c; lb. 30c, postpaid 
Fordhook Bush Lima Bean—The only stiffly erect bush form of the pop¬ 
ular “Potato” Lima! Both pods and beans are twice the size of Dreer’s Bush 
Lima and more than half again as large as the Challenger Pole Lima. 
Is fully a third heavier cropper and therefore is bound to entirely displace 
the Kumerle (Dreer’s or Thornburn’s) Bush Limas. In season it is from 
four to six days earlier. Per pkt. 10c; Yz lb. 15c; lb. 30c, postpaid 
Pole Lima Beans 
Oregon Pole Lima —Grows to an average of about five feet, is a strong, 
;hrifty vine and very prolific, bearing continuously until frost, the blossoms 
bursting from the top shoots in long panicles, while the pods can be seen 
n every stage of development, to the matured beans at the bottom of the 
yine. Pods are well filled, having three to five large beans of the finest 
quality. Gather any time after full maturity. 
Oregon Pole Lima can be planted in any garden soil as early as April or 
late as July. Give the same care and culture as other Beans, and are ready 
bo use when the pods are filled and first begin to ripen. It is not necessary 
that they should dry on the vines, except for seed. They are at their best 
when the full green pods begin to turn yellow. 
Per pkt. 10c; Yz lb. 15c; lb. 30c, postpaid 
