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Fordhook Bush Lima Beans 
Bush Lima Beans 
Sow I quart of seed to 100 feet of drill 
Cuxtture. Seed 2 inches apart or plant in 
rows 2 feet apart and make hills 1 foot apart 
in the rows. About 75 days. Soil C. 
Burpee’s Improved. Bears an abundance 
of thick, kidney-shaped Beans. 
Burpee’s. Like above, but bears flat Beans. 
Fordhook. Everybody loves these delicious 
thick, roundish Beans of just the right 
shade of green. The sturdy bushes bear 
the pods in clusters of 4 to 6, the pods 
averaging 4 large Beans each. 
Henderson’s Dwarf. Popular Baby Lima. 
Its flavor is excellent. 
FOR A BUMPER CROP, USE NITRAGIN 
ON ALL BEANS. See page 9. 
BEANS, BUSH LIMA 
Fordhook. . 
Fordhook 242. 
Peerless (U.S. 43h 
Burpee’s upproved 
Burpee’s. 
Henderson’s Dwarf. 
Baby Fordhook. . 
BEANS, ENGLISH or BROAD WINDSOR... 
BEANS, POLE STRING 
BUSH LIMA BEANS 
PEERLESS (U. S. 243). 
A dwarf Fordhook type 
introduced for 1948 by 
the U. S. Dept. of Agri- 
culture, developed from a 
cross of Fordhook and 
Henderson’s Bush. Small 
plant. Gray-green foli- 
age; pcds_ similar to 
Fordhook. Seeds about 
half-way in shape and 
size between Henderson 
and Fordhook. Excellent 
for freezing. 
/ Fordhook 242. Similar to 
the regular Fordhook, but 
more open in growth; pods 
shorter, curved, contain- 
ing 3 to 4 slightly smaller 
Beans, but of same quality 
and color. Superior under 
adverse growing condi- 
tions. Will not displace 
regular Fordhooks. 
Baby Fordhook. Matures 
in about 70 days. Stocky 
bush; big root system; 
bears green-seeded, thick 
potato type Limas. Stands 
cold and wet, also ex- 
treme heat. Very prolific. 
Broad WindsorBeans 
Cuxrure. Same as Bush 
Limas, only plant thinner. 
Similar to Lima Beans, but 
a different flavor and larger. 
Should be planted early 
(March or April), as they 
are very hardy. Soil C 
Pole String Beans 
Green- and Wax-Podded 
CuttureE. Same as Pole Lima. 70 days. 
Horticultural or Pole Cherry. Pods green, 
dashed with red when Beans are matured. 
Kentucky Wonder or Old Homestead. 
It grows luxuriantly and bears for a long 
period. Pods are very long, very fleshy and 
deeply creased or saddle backed, green in 
color and stringless. Seed light brown. 
Lazy Wife or White Cherry. Pods 6 to 
8 inches long, entirely stringless, of a rich, 
buttery flavor when cooked as a Snap 
Bean; also a good white Shell Bean for 
winter. One of the very finest flavored. 
KENTUCKY WONDER WAX. Same as 
Kentucky Wonder with exception of beauti- 
ful yellow pods. 
Yard-Long or Snake Beans. Produces 
dark green foliage and stringless green pods, 
often 2 to 3 feet long. 
Pkt Pt Qt. 
...$0 10 $0 60 $1 
oy 10 60 1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Kentucky Wonder Wax 0.1.0.0 0.00.00 
Lazy Wife or White Cherry . 
Kentucky Wonder (Old Homestead) . 
Horticultural (Pole Cherry) . 
Yard-Long (Snake Beans). . 
BEETS, COW (Mangel- Wurzel) 
Mammoth Long Red.. : 
Golden Tankard. . 
BEETS, TABLE 
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Early Wonder 
Crosby’s Improved Ca 
Extra-Early Eclipse. . 
Early Blood Turnip. . 
Larger muantities quoted © on Aiceauieee “All Beans weigh 60 lbs. per bus. 


BEETS, TABLE 
Sow 1 ounce of seed to 60 feet of drill; 
5 pounds to an acre in drills 
Cutture., Beets like rather ltght soil pro- 
vided it is thoroughly mixed with manure. 
For main crop sow in the spring as soon as 
ground becomes fit to work, in drills 114 feet 
apart and 1 inch deep. For winter use sow 
as late as July. Thin out to stand 5 to 6 inches 
apart. About 60 days. Soil A. 
TALL TOP BUNCHING. This splendid 
Beet is nearly a perfect globe, about 10 
inches around, with smooth skin free from 
rootlets; the flesh is a rich blcod-red, 
nicely ringed, never stringy and always 
tender and sweet. Excellent for canning. 
PERFECTION DETROIT DARK RED. 
The ideal Beet for market gardeners. It is 
the darkest red and most uniform Beet 
ever introduced. Just the right size top 
for bunching and will run better than 99 
per cent, extremely dark red in color with- 
out visible zones. 
Crosby’s Improved Egyptian. 
sirable. Fine for early market. 
Detroit Dark Red. A fine early variety with 
globe-shaped roots of brilliant red. 
Early Wonder. A very early dark red Beet 
similar to Crosby’s Egyptian in shape. It 
is sweet and tender and a good variety for 
the home-garden. 
Extra-Early Eclipse. 
top. 
Early Blood Turnip. Old standby. 
Cow Beets - Mangel-Wurzels 
Used for feeding cattle. S w 5 pounds per acre 
Cuxrture. Sow in April and May in 
thoroughly plowed, well-manured soil, in 
drills 2 inches deep and about 18 inches 
apart. “rie out to 12 inches. Low ground is 
best adapted for Mangel-Wurzels. 100 days. 
Soil A 
Golden Tankard. Large, yellow, excellent. 
Mammoth Long Red. Immense; long; red. 
Very de- 
Small 
Round root. 

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Dark Red Beets 

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