POPULAR VEGETABLE SEEDS 
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New Jersey Grown Pole Lima Beans 
WHY THEY ARE THE BEST 
For nearly half a century Southern New Jer¬ 
sey has had the reputation, and deservedly so, 
of growing the finest Lima Beans in the United 
States, the product being eagerly sought after by 
Boston, New York, Philadelphia and other Eastern 
cities, for both seed and consumption. For some 
years past, however, many seedsmen have been 
growing their supplies in Southern California, 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 by 
which they are grown, while the beans are smaller 
and lack the rich, buttery flavor peculiar to the 
New^ Jersey Limas. 
Shotwell’s Improved Thick Pole 
Lima Bean 
Originated by one of the best and most ex¬ 
perienced growers of Northern New Jersey. It is 
of the thick or Potato Lima class, but will be found 
a decided improvement on the Dreer's Improved 
Pole Lima or any other bean of its class in earliness, 
productiveness and fine quality. All claims made 
for it have been fully substantiated by hundreds of 
our customers who tried it in past seasons, and we 
regret we have not room here to publish the many 
strong recommendations received from them. Pkt., 
ioc.; pint, 30c.; qt., 55c., postpaid; by freight 
or express, qt., 40c.; 2 qts., 70c.; peck, 92.25; bush., 
98.50. 
Ford’s Mammoth Podded Pole 
Lima Bean 
This Lima Bean is the result of over twenty 
years’ selection by the late Jas. Ford, who was one 
of the oldest market gardeners around Philadelphia. 
The pods grow to an average length of 8 inches, are 
produced in great clusters, with from five to seven 
beans per pod, of most excellent quality for using 
either green or dry. The vines grow vigorously, 
setting the beans early at the bottom of the pole, 
and continue in bearing right up to frost. Ford’s 
Mammoth Podded is, without exception, the 
largest podded, finest flavored and most pro¬ 
ductive of all Lima Beans. Pkt., ioc.; pint, 
30c.; qt., 55c., postpaid; pint, 20c.; qt., 40c.; 2 
qts., 70c.;^peck, 92.00; bush., 97-50, by freight or 
express. 
THE CREAM 
OF THE POLE LIMAS 
iwenty quarts of Pole Limas are required to plant an acre in 
hills 4 x 4 feet. We send Large Packets of any variety at 10 c. each 
by mail, postage paid. Half peck and half bushel at peck and 
bushel rates. 
By Mail, 
Postpaid. 
By Express or Freight. 
Pint. 
Qt. 
Qt. 
Peck. 
Bush. 
Large White Lima (extra size). New Jersey grown seed, very pro¬ 
ductive. Our strain is superior to most others. 
9o 25 
So 45 
So 30 
Si 75 
96 50 
King of the Garden. Large, fine pods, productive, beans good size, 
25 
45 
30 
1 75 
6 78 
Henderson's Early Leviathan. Very fine. See Novelties, page 5, 
30 
50 
35 
2 00 
7 50 
Pedrick’s Large Cluster Lima (Novelty 1908). Deep green, 12 to 
13 pods to cluster, 5 to 6 beans to pod. A wonderful producer, 
Salem Improved Evergreen Lima. Large beans of finest quality. 
35 
60 
45 
2 SO 
9 00 
35 
60 
45 
2 25 
8 25 
Seibert’s Early Lima. The earliest large Pole Lima, easily shelled, 
30 
50 
35 
1 85 
7 00 
Dreer’s Improved, or Challenger Lima. Thick beans of fine 
quality, remaining green in pod a long time. 
30 
50 
35 
1 85 
7 00 
Jersey Extra Early Lima. Large, early and productive . 
30 
50 
35 
1 85 
7 00 
