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THE GREAT FOOD BEAN FOR AMERICANS 
IMPROVED “Henderson” Bush Lima Bean 
(See colored illustration on opposite page.) 
THE BEST FOR BOILING, BAKING OR CANNING—TASTY AND DELICIOUS. 
FAR SUPERIOR TO THE ORDINARY WHITE BEAN OF COMMERCE. 
SUITABLE for all SECTIONS, NORTH and SOUTH. YIELDS CONTINUOUSLY from EARLY SUMMER to FROST. 
We earnestly recommend a much more extensive use of Lima Beans as a table food at this time; when it is so necessary to avail ourselves 
of all possible substitutes for animal food, which is now so costly. . J J _ , , . _ 
Lima Beans are not used as largely as they should be, because it is not generally known that m a dry state they can be used in the same 
manner as the common beans, and keep equally well. Lima Beans are much richer and more delicate in flavor than the ordinary beans, and 
are unexcelled for cither boiling, baking or canning, besides their great desirability as green beans, either alone or eaten with sweet corn in the 
form of succotash. 
We—the pioneer introducers of the Bush Limas—have always 
realized that the original Bush Lima Bean, the “Henderson,” was 
defective in size, and though, because of its extreme earliness, thousands 
of our customers were enabled to grow Lima Beans where none had 
grown before, the defect remained until the introduction of the Im¬ 
proved “Henderson,” which is at least 50 per cent, larger than the 
original. Though a day or two later, it is still 10 days earlier than other 
bush forms, and weeks earlier than any of the pole varieties, yet retain¬ 
ing all the remarkable qualities of its predecessor, which was, without 
doubt, the most remarkable vegetable novelty of the last century. 
The Improved “Henderson” is a perfect all-around variety, it grows 
as freely and is just as dependable in the North as in the South, in fact, 
it is the only one suitable for all sections. The quality is excellent, 
possessing the rich, buttery flavor common to all Limas. Price, 15c. 
pkt., 60c. pt., $1.00 qt. 
THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF HENDERSON’S BUSH 
LIMA BEANS ARE GROWN FOR CANNING ON 
A LARGE SCALE IN NEW JERSEY 
Reprinted from the New York Tribune Farmer 
used to cut them off just beneath the surface of the ground. They 
are then forked up in piles about the same as a hay crop and carted 
to the factory in large wagons. They go through a thrasher and 
then women pick out the white beans and the rest go through a 
sieve to separate the green and sm 9 .ll green. The vines and pods 
are carted from the factory back to the farm for fertilizer. The 
elements contained in the green vines are just what is needed by 
the land.” 
“ Henderson's Bush Luna Beans are in my opinion the baking bean 
par excellence, being very tasty, and much nicer in every way than the 
ordinary white bean. 1 have had them cooked in this way for years, 
although I know the practise is not general." 
Oct. 12, 1917. JAMES PETTIGREW, Hackensack, N. J . 
“ For years we used the Henderson Improved Bush Lima Bean for 
baking as well as cooked in the ordinary way. We would eat no baked 
beans but Henderson’s Bush Limas." 
A. G. KOEPPEN, Hillsdale, N. Y. 
“ The Henderson Improved Bush Lima Beans I got from you last 
spring arc doing fine. They arc excellent." 
Aug. 30, 1917. R. EDGAR SIDNEY, Huntington, Ind. 
“ A word about the Lima Beans I got from you. They are by far the 
grandest I ever ate. There is nothing like them." 
April 7. Mrs. I. W. IIUD DM AN, Grand Rapids, O. 
“A big industry, carried on from start to finish by one man, is the growing of Lima 
Beans by Clinton Ayars, of Bridgeton, N. J., who plants 150 acres of this crop and 
cans all the beans from these acres. 
Be begins to plant usually on May 10th and plants three acres each day to July 
15th. Beans planted after July 15th rarely mature before frost. As the Ayars 
factory can handle the products from three acres in one day, when the beans on the 
three acres planted on May 10th mature they are gathered and canned, and this pro¬ 
cess continues right on from day to day untill the entire crop is gathered and canned. 
Mr Ayars worked for six years to get this system down to this fine point, and knows 
the best way to work. He cannot contract with farmers and get good results, as 
they would not plant in the order the beans are ncedbd at the factory so he could 
save and use every bean by canning every day. For this reason Mr. Ayars has 
bought many acres and uses them for bean culture. There are only three men in 
New Jersey who follow this plan of from seed to can. One of them plants one 
thousand acres. Mr. Ayars would have no trouble in selling the beans from one 
thousand acres. Mr. Ayars knows just the kind of fertilizer to use to get the green 
beans in large quantities. The reason he plants just three acres a day and harvests 
three aerqs a day and cans three acres a day is that three acres a day is_the capacity 
of his vining and shelling machine. 
The rows are planted fifty inches apart for best results. The “Henderson” Bush 
Lima Bean is used and the fields of it are a clean and pretty sight. A good 
vine growth is needed to shade the beans. Both hand and horse cultivators are 
used constantly to keep them free from weeds. When they are ripe a machine is 
NEARLY 10,000 ACRES 
PLANTED WITH THE 
“HENDERSON”BUSH 
LIMA BEAN in California 
Ranchers Jubilant in San Fernando 
Van Nuys, Feb. 17. —‘‘The rainfall 
on Monday broke the light crust on 
the plowed lands and made i t very 
easy to work up the soil for planting, 
‘‘Approximately 10,000 acres of beans 
will be planted this year in the valley. 
Most of the acreage will be planted with 
the ‘HENDERSON’ BUSH LIMA 
BEAN, which are commanding a higher 
S rice here than the large Limas.”— 
.eprinted from San Francisco Examiner, 
Feb. 18, 1917.. 
We print the above to show the very 
extensive use of the "Henderson" Bush 
Lima Bean for canning purposes on the 
Pacific coast, and that it is also much 
preferred to other varieties. 
"Have had the most remarkable luck with your seeds. The Limas 
do great here. I picked 12 bushels of pods, grown from four quarts of 
seed last year." 
March 30. H. W. BARROWS, Lake George, N. Y. 
EXCELLENT 
F OP 
BAKING [ 
Send Your Seed Orders in January or February. 
The Demand For Seeds Will Exceed The Supply This Year 
