

@ LONDON HORTICULTURAL 
(Speckled Cranberry; Wren’s Egg) 
(Days to Maturity, 72) 
Usss: Snap or green shell bean. Home and mar- 
ket garden. Good dry shell bean. 
VinE: 4 to 414 feet tall, vigorous, dark green 
foliage. 
Pops: 6 to 61% inches long, dark green turning 
lighter with splashes of red in green shell 
stage, stringless, thick, flat, nearly 
straight, fleshy. 
SEED: Buff streaked with red oval. 
@ McCASLAN 
(Days to Maturity, 66) 
Uses: Home and market gardens. Snap or dry 
shell beans. 
VINE: 5 to 51% feet tall, medium, dark green, 
vigorous, good climber. 
Pops: 7 to 8 inches long, fleshy, medium green, 
slightly stringy, flattened and twisted. 
SEED: Ivory-white, oblong and flattened. 
@ STRIPED CREASEBACK 
(Nancy Davis; Scotia) 
(Days to Maturity, 72) 
Uses: Good cornfield bean. Used for snaps. 
Vine: 41% to 5 feet tall, good climber, dark 
green. 
Pops: 6 to 61% inches long, medium green, 
round, fleshy, stringy, brittle. 
SEED: Mottled buff with black stripes. 
@® KENTUCKY WONDER WAX 
(Days to Maturity, 66) 
Uses: Home gardens. 
VinE: 4 to 5 feet tall, good climber, dark green. 
Pops: 7 to 714% inches long, light golden yellow, 
thick, flat to oval. 
SEED: Chocolate-brown, flat-oval. 
Bush Lima Beans 
CULTURE: One-half pound small or 1 pound 
large bush lima beans will plant a row 100 feet long; 
30 pounds small or 60 pounds large will plant an 
acre. Lima beans are not as hardy as snap beans and 
should not be planted as early. Plant as soon as the 
ground is warm, in rows 3 feet apart, 1 14 inches deep 
dropping 3 or 4 beans every 8 or 10 inches. Cultivate 
same as snap beans. 
@® FORDHOOK NO. 242 
(Days to Maturity, 75) 
Uses: Market and home gardens. Adapted to 
freezing. 
Busu: 16 to 20 inches tall, vigorous, erect, dark 
green. 
Pops: 4 inches long, 3 to 4 seeds per pod, 
plump, easy to open. 
SEED: White tinged with green, large, thick. 
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Bush Lima Beans, Fordhook No. 242 
@ JACKSON WONDER 
(Days to Maturity, 68) 
Popular in South for home and market 
gardens. 
16 to 20 inches tall, vigorous, erect. 
3 to 31% inches long, dark green, broad, 
flat, slightly curved. 3 to 4 seeds per pod. 
Buff splashed with purplish black. 
@ TRIUMPH LIMA 
(Days to Maturity, 72) 
Market gardens. Excellent for shipping 
and freezing. 
15 to 16 inches tall, vigorous and dar 
green. ; 
Similar to Henderson but narrower and 
thicker. Pod surface slightly depressed 
between beans. 
Uniform in size with cream-colored skin. 
@ WOOD’S PROLIFIC 
(Days to Maturity, 71) 
Uses: Very similar to Henderson Bush Lima but 
more vigorous, a little larger and some- 
what longer in season. 

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