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JOHNSON SEED COMPANY 
Novelties and Specialties in Vegetables 
The successful gardener, before ordering his supply of seeds, makes a careful study of one or more 
reliable seed catalogues, having probably learned that there are two classes of seedsmen. 
One class offer each year, in bewildering numbers, novelties from the four quarters of the globe, 
which they claim are destined to eclipse all similar varieties heretofore known. Such catalogues the 
gardener must regard humorously if he considers them at all. 
There is another class of seedsmen who are constantly on the lookout for something of value. They 
keep closely in touch with experts in this and in foreign countries. New varieties, when proven to be of 
distinct merit, are promptly included in (heir lists, after thorough trials. Such trials w'e make each 
season at Cedarcroft Trial Grounds, and the results of recent careful investigations will be found in the 
succeeding pages. 
NEW FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA BEAN 
The only stiffly 
erect Bush form 
of the Potato 
Lima! Both pods 
and beans are 
twice the size of 
Dreer’s and more 
than half again 
as large as the 
Challenger Pole 
Lima. 
FORDHOOK 
BUSH LIMA is 
altogether unique. 
Nothing like it 
has ever been 
seen before! It 
was created by 
Nature as a 
single sport in a 
field of the 
Challenger Pole 
Lima in 1903. 
Until now the 
Kumerle or 
Dreer’s Bush 
Lima has been 
the only dwarf 
form of the fat 
. ... “Potato Lima.” 
An objection to this, however, is found in the prostrate growth of the plant, the pods frequently 
becoming discolored from being beaten to the ground by wind or rain. 
FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA is positively upright in growth. The strong erect bushes withstand both 
whipping rains and high winds. The main stalk is stiffly erect, from two to two and one-half feet 
high, and from this is thrown out a great number of lateral branches, closely resembling Burpee’s 
Bush Lima in this habit of growth. The foliage is much heavier than Dreer’s; the leaf is broader, 
resembling that of a large Pole Lima, of heavy texture and dark green in color, while the pods are 
bornealong stalks thrown out from the lateral and main stalks in “clusters” of from four to eight. The 
pods resemble Dreer's, but are much larger, measuring from four to five and one-half inches long, 
one and one-eighth to one and a quarter inches wide, by as much as three-quarters of an inch thick. 
FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA is fully twenty-five to thirty-three and one-third per cent, a heavier cropper. 
1 Both the green and the dried beans, as compared with Dreer's, are truly enormous, being more than 
double the size. On one bush we counted fifty-two pods, the majority containing four beans, while a 
great number contained five. In a selected plant of Dreer's there were not nearly so many well- 
formed pods, while a number contained only two small beans. The flavor of the green beans is all that 
can be desired in this chubby or potato lima type, which is given such preference on the New York 
markets. Being more productive, and of upright growth, with larger, handsomer pods and from four to 
six days earlier, it is bound to entirely displace the Kumerle ( Dreer's or Thorburn) Bush Lima. 
Seed—ORIGINATOR’S STOCK— Per pkt., 15c.; 2 pkts., 25c.; } pint, 40c.; i pint, 75c.; pint, $1.25, 
by mail, postpaid. 
See Our Liberal Offer on these Wonderful Beans on Opposite Page 
A plant of FORDHOOK bush LIMA—from a photograph. 
