NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES 
5 
The “ Burpee Improved ” Bush Lima 
This is also an entirely “New Creation.” The pods are truly enormous 
in size, borne abundantly and well filled with handsome 
beans, which are both larger and thicker than 
those of the popular Burpee’s Bush Lima 
Like the Fordhook Bush Lima, one plant of this was discovered also in 1903, as a sport in a 
field of Challenger Pole Lima. 
It differs from the best strains of Burpee's Bush Lima in having uniformly much larger pods, 
producing more beans, while both pods and beans are not only larger in size, but also considerably 
thicker. The growth is even more vigorous, with heavier foliage. The plants are uniformly upright. 
Full-grown bushes measure thirty inches in 
height and twenty-four inches across the top. 
The blossom-bearing stalks are thrown well 
out from the foliage, and the pods are fre¬ 
quently borne in what might be called 
“clusters” of from five to eight. We 
counted two “clusters,” of which one had 
nine and the other ten large, perfect pods, con¬ 
taining from four to eight beans to the pod. 
The “ Burpee Improved ” 
produces magnificent crops of pods, which 
measure from five to six inches long by one 
and one-quarter inches wide. As compared 
with Burpee's Bush Lima , both pods and beans 
are very much larger, while the beans, either 
green or dry, are nearly twice as thick. The 
green beans measured in the field of The Bur¬ 
pee Improved were one and one-quarter inches 
long by seven-eighths of an inch wide and three- 
eighths of an inch thick, while thebest that could 
be found in neighboring fields of Burpee’s Bush 
Lima were oneand.one-eighth inches long,eleven- 
sixteenths of an inch wide and one-quarter of an 
inch thick. The beans are of the same delicious 
flavor as those of Burpee’s Bush Lima or the 
Large Lima Pole Bean, while they are ready to use 
six to eight days earlier. 
The “Burpee Improved” Bush 
I ima w '" outyield Burpee's Bush Lima by fully 
lviuia one-third. This greater yield is due to 
the increased size of both pod and beans. The 
dried beans are very handsome, and generally 
show a greenish-wnite coloring, while dried 
beans of the Burpee Bush Lima, like those 
of the Large Pole Lima, are pure white. 
Pods, natural size, of 
The New "Burpee Improved” Bush Lima 
Seed, Originator’s Stock 
Per pkt., 15c.; two pkts. for 25c.; 
hi pint, 40c.; y 2 pint, 75c.; per pint, 
$1.25, by mail, postpaid. 
To induce you to try 
these two grand, new 
Limas — Fordhook 
Bush and “ Burpee 
Improved" Bush — 
we will send 1 
pkt. each for 
25c.; 14 pint 
each for 75c.; y 2 pint each 
for $1.25. 
A 
LIBERAL 
OFFER 
