6 BURPEE’S FORDHOOK 
BUSH LIMA BEAN o 
Introduced by Burpee and named for Burpee’s Fordhook Farms 


















75 days. Burpee’s Fordhook is known and grown wherever beans are planted. 
It is the leading variety of bush lima beans, and in the important commercial 
| sections it is usually the only variety grown which shows its desirability. 
The plant is bushy, upright, with large leaves of heavy texture, 20 in. or 
more in height, with a spread of 2 ft. or more, very vigorous, with many 
flowering branches. Pods are borne close to the plant and often on the ends 
of the branches. They are 4 to 4% in. long, 1 to 1% in. wide, and 34 in. thick, 
dark green, straight to slightly curved, crowded with 3 or 4 large, thick beans 
of a delicious flavor, not unlike chestnuts. Seeds are green when immature, 
holding this color until quite old, becoming cream colored when ripe. 
The dry, mealy quality of Fordhook is familiar to every one who uses lima 
beans. The beans are large and there is, therefore, less waste in shelling than 
with other varieties. Its bearing season is long and a planting may be 
picked over a period of a month or more. 
For home garden or commercial use we recommend this great bean highly. 
Fine quality, always salable, attractive appearance, and large pods allow 
us to say that in lima beans, Fordhook is the best. (For a pole bean of the 
Fordhook type, plant Burpee’s Best.) 
We grow our Fordhooks ourselves in California, selecting them continu- 
ously and checking over stocks by trials at Fordhook Farms. As the 
originator of this fine bean, we invite your order for the finest seed 
obtainable. Pkt. 10¢; 14 lb. 25¢; Ib. 45¢; 2 Ibs. 85¢; 5 Ibs. $2.00. 
Kills and repels the Mexican bean beetle, including the adult, 
200X65 Miexogen larvae, andeggs. Non-poisonous to humans, animals, and birds 
when directions are followed. Easy to use. 4 pint 85¢; 1 quart $2.25. 
How do Grow Bush Ligaen 
Lima Beans succeed well in almost any good garden soil but do best in a 
rich, well-drained, sandy loam. As seed is sensitive to cold and wet ground, 
it must not be planted until the soil has become quite warm and fairly dry. 
Plant the seeds edgewise, eye down, 5 in. apart in rows 2% to 3 ft. apart, 
and cover with 2 in. of fine soil. When the plants are well started thin to 
stand 12 to 15 in. apart for large-seeded varieties and 9 to 12 in. for small- 
seeded varieties, such as Philadelphia Bush, Wood’s Prolific, and Baby 
Fordhook. Give frequent and shallow cultivation until blossoms appear, 
but do not cultivate or handle plants when they are wet. Pick the pods as 
scon as the beans have reached edible size. One pkt. of seed will sow 25 ft. 
of row; one lb. for 100 ft.; 60 lbs. to an acre. 
61 Baby Fordhook Bush Lima 
70 days. A thick-seeded, small lima bean of far better quality 
than the flat type; bred by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. It 
was designed especially for canning and freezing where a high qual- 
ity baby lima bean has been sought for many years. Home garden- 
ers, too, will appreciate Baby Fordhook with its surprisingly heavy 
crop of pods under almost any conditions. Its quality is excellent 
and the beans retain their green color until they are quite old. 
Plant is truly bush, about 14 in. tall, with shiny, dark green leaves, 
heavily productive, bearing pods quite close to the stem. Pods are 
234 in. long and 3% in. wide, thick, slightly curved, containing 3 or 4 
beans, close but not crowded in the pod, as may be seen in picture to 
the right. Seed is thick, green, turning cream when dry. 
r kt. 15¢; 14 Ib. 35¢; Ib. 60¢; 2 Ibs. $1.10; 5 Ibs. $2.60. 
66 Burpee’s Bush Lima 
78 days. The original dwarf, large-seeded Bush Lima. First intro- 
duced exclusively by Burpee in 1890. It isan immense yielder. The 
pods and beans, however, are not so large, nor are the bushes so 
prolific, as those of the Burpee Improved Bush Lima. The bushes, 
18 to 24 in. tall, are of stout, erect growth, yet branching so vigor- 
ously that each plant develops into a rounded plant about 2 ft. in 
diameter. Pods grow 4% to 5 in. long and contain 3 or 4 large beans 
oi the highest quality and as large as those of pole limas. 
Pkt. 10¢; 14 Ib. 25¢; Ib. 40¢; 2 Ibs. 75¢; 5 Ibs. $1.75. 
Burpee’s 
Fordhook 
Bush Lima 
200X62 Legume Aid—tncrease your yields of Beans by 
treating the seeds before planting with Legume Aid. 
Garden Packet (inoculates up to 5 lbs. of seed) 12¢. 
Large Packet (enough to inoculate 15 lbs. seed) 25¢. 
108 W. Atlee Burpee Co., Seed Growers Baby Fordhook Bush Lima 


