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WHY THEY ARE THE BEST 
For nearly half a century Southern Now Jersey lms 
had the reputation, and deservedly so, of growing the 
finest Lima Beans in the United States, tho product 
being eagerly sought after by Boston, New York, Phila¬ 
delphia and other Eastern cities, for both seed and con¬ 
sumption. For some years past, however, many seeds¬ 
men have been growing their supplies in Southern Cali¬ 
fornia, where they are grown very cheaply and without 
poles. We have made hundreds of tests of various 
Limas from California seed and find the product much 
inferior in both quality and productiveness to those 
grown in New* Jersey. It is also difficult to get them to 
take the poles, owing to the method in which they nro 
grown, while the beans are smaller and lack tho rich 
buttery flavor peculiar to the New Jersey Limas. 
FORD’S MAMMOTH PODDED 
Average Pods of ford’s mammoth, 8 Inches Long. 
This grand Lima Bean is tho result of over twenty 
years’ selection by Jos. Ford, one of the oldest market 
gardeners around Philadelphia. The pods grow to an 
average length of eight inches, and are produced in great 
clusters, with from live to seven beans per pod, of most 
excellent quality, for using either green or dry. Tho 
vines grow vigorously, setting the beans early at the bot¬ 
tom of the pole, and continue in bearing right up to frost. 
Ford’s Mammoth Podded is without exception tho 
largest podded, finest flavored and most produc¬ 
tive of all Lima llcans. Pkt., 10c.; pint, 85c.; qt., 55o., 
postpaid; by freight or express, qt., 40c.; 1 qts., $1.25; 
peck, $2.26; bush., $8.00. 
SHALLCROSS MARKET QUEEN LIMA. A raro 
novelty in Lima Beans now offered for the first time. Seo 
Novelties, page 2. Pkt., I5c.; pint, 35c.; qt., G5c.; peck, 
$3.00. Supply limited. 
JERSEY EXTRA EARLY LIMA. The pods are 
largo and numerous, invariably having from four to five 
beans in each. These beans appear in Philadelphia mar¬ 
kets nearly two weeks ahead ofordinary limns, selling at 
from 83.00 to $4.00 per bushel of pods, and previous to tho 
introduction of Seibert's Early, were considered tho earli¬ 
est. Pt., 30c.; qt., 50c.; peck, 81.76; bush., $0.50. 
GERMAN CLUSTER LIM A. Quito early, produc¬ 
ing large pods containing five to six beans each in great 
clusters of ten to twelve. The vli\es are heavier and 
leaves broader than in any of the American limas. Pint, 
30c.; qt., 50c.; peck, $2.00. 
WILLOW LEAF LIMA. This now pole Limn Bean 
differs from all others in its beautiful deeply cut foliage. 
The pods are of tho Sewee type, well filled with puro 
white beans, tender and of flue flavor. Pint, 25c.; qt., 
40c.; peck, $1.25; bush., 81.75. 
STOKES* EVERGREEN LIMA. The .Stokes’ Ever¬ 
green not only holds the full size and great pioduetive- 
ness of the Salem Mammoth, but has the remarkable 
additional quality of holding, in all stages of growth, and 
even when dry and shelled, the deep green color of the 
unripe state, thus giving the dry beans, when cooked 
during the winter and spring, not only the green appear¬ 
ance, but also tho delicious flavor of beans fresh from tho 
vine. Pint, 35c.; qt., G0c.; peek, $2.50. 
KING OF TIIE GARDEN LIMA. More proliflo 
than the ordinary lima, bearing pods five to six inches 
long, in clusters of four and five, with five to six beans in 
a pod. Pint, *25c.; qt., 45c.; peek, 81.50; bush., $5.75. 
HORTICULTURAL LIMA. A cross between tho 
Dwarf Horticultural and Drccr’s Improved Lima. Vines 
medium-sized, fruiting early and freely to the ends; 
leaves large, coarse, wrinkled, green, resembling Dwarf 
Horticultural; pods borne in clusters, three to six inches 
in length, flat, almost straight. Pint, 25c.; qt., 40c.; peek, 
81.25; bush., $4.75. 
DREER'S IMPROVED, or CHALLENGER 
POLE LIMA. When green is as large ns the Large 
Lima, thicker, sweeter and more tender and nutritious, 
remaining green in the pod fora long time after matur¬ 
ing. Pint, 25c.; qt., 45c.; peck, 81.60.; bush., $5 75. 
SALEM IMPROVED LIMA. A selection from the 
Large Lima Bean, of extraordinary size and deep green 
color. Pint, 30c.: qt., 50c ; peck, $2.00; bush.. 87.50. 
LARGE WHITE LIMA. (Extra Selected Size.) 
The well-known favorite. Our strain is fine. Pint, 25a; 
qt., 45c.; peck, $1.50; bush., $5.75. 
Carolina, or Sewee. Beans about half the size of 
Large Lima. Pint,25c.; qt., 45c.; peek, $1X0; bush., 35.60. 
