NOVELTIES ANI) SPECIALTIES 
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NEW FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA BEAN 
PHOTOGRAPH OF POD, 5 A INCHES 
LONG, OK THE UNIQUE FORD- 
HOOK BUSH LIMA. 
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. 
FORDIIOOK 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 borne along 
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 
one-quarter inches wide, by as much as three-quarters of an inch thick. 
FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA is fully tw'enty-five to thirty-three and 
one-third per cent, a heavier cropper. Both the green and the dried beans, 
as compared w'ith 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 pref¬ 
erence 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 from ORIGINATOR’S STOCK, per pkt., 15c.; pt., 40 c., 
by mail, postpaid; by freight or express, pt., 30c.; qt., 45c.; 2 qts., 80c.; 
4 qts., $1.50; peck, $2.75; bush., $10.00. 
WHAT OTHERS SAY OF FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA 
FORDHOOK BEYOND COMPARISON 
Charles E. Brown, Lyndonville, N. Y., writes, October 2 , 1909 : — “Your New Ford- 
hook Bush Lima Beans are beyond comparison in size, quality and productiveness; all 
other seeds you sent me were excellent.” 
THE FINEST EVER SEEN OR GROWN 
H. Johnson, Waycross, Ga., writes, August 21 , 1909 : — "Your Fordhook Bush Lima 
Beans are the finest I have ever planted and every one here pronounces it the finest 
Lima Bean they have ever seen or grown.” 
THE BEST IN SIZE, QUALITY AND YIELD 
W. C. Prickett, Fort Wayne, Ind., writes, September . 30 , 1909 : “All the seed bought 
of you this past season gave great satisfaction. The New Fordhook Bush Lima Bean is 
by far the best in large size, quality and yield.” 
The “Burpee Improved” 
Bush Lima 
This new variety, which was offered in 1908 for the first, 
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 Burpee Improved were one and one-quarter 
inches long by seven-eighths of an inch wide and three-eighths 
of an inch thick, while the best that could be found in 
neighboring fields of Burpee’s Bush Lima were one and 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 eight to ten days earlier. 
Seed from ORIGINATOR’S STOCK, per pkt., 15c.; 
pint, 45c., postpaid; by freight or express, pint, 35c.; qt., 
60c.; 2 qts., $1.10; peck, $3.50; bush., $12.50. 
NATURAL SIZE FRESH GREEN BEANS OF THE NEW 
FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA 
