Shell Beans 

SHELL BEANS, French Horticultural Special 
FRENCH HORTICULTURAL SPECIAL. 68 days. 
Our stock is a very fancy strain of New England 
shell Bean. Bushy plant with short runners. Pods 
average 8 inches in length and 5% inch in width, with 
a heavy splashing of deep carmine. Seeds pinkish 
buff, mottled and streaked with oxblood-red. 
MAMMOTH FAVA LONG POD (Aqua_ Dulca). 
75 days. Sometimes called Horse Bean. Pods 9 to 
10 inches long, flat, glossy green, containing 5 or 6 
seeds. Used as a shell Bean. Seeds large, circular, 
flat, pale reddish brown with black eye. 

Use Spergon for treating Lima Bean seed. 
Protects seed against decay and stimulates growth 

Pole Lima Beans 
KING OF THE GARDEN. 88 days. The most 
popular and widely used Pole Lima. Vines vigorous, 
heavily productive and good climbers. Pods broad, 
straight, containing 4 to 5 Beans. Seeds white, large, 
thick and flat. Good for freezing. 
CAROLINA or SIEVA. 78 days. Very popular in 
the South where it is known as Butter Bean or 
small white Lima. The vines produce a fine crop of 
small attractive pods 3/% inches long, each with 3 or 
4 small flat green Beans of splendid quality. Plant 
grows over 10 feet tall. Seeds white, flat. 
TRI-STATE SEED COMPANY, Inc. 
PHILADELPHIA 6, PA. 



Bush Lima Beans 
CULTURE. When warm weather is certain, plant the seed 
11% inches deep, with the eye down. Thin the young plants 
to 6inches apart. 1 lb. plants 100 ft. of row; 60 lbs. an acre. 
FORDHOOK NO. 242. 72 days. A new strain 
similar to Fordhook Bush Lima. Plants large, wide 
spreading, prolific, with more foliage than Fordhook. 
This variety has as its chief superiority the ability 
to make a crop under conditions where the other 
thick-seeded Limas fail. Fordhook No. 242 con- 
sistently outyields regular Fordhook. 

LIMA BEANS, Fordhook Bush 
FORDHOOK BUSH. 75 days. Plant large, up- 
right, prolific. The large, thick pods are produced 
in clusters of from 5 to 8 and contain 3 to 5 thick, 
meaty, plump green Beans of excellent flavor. Seeds 
white tinged with green. Good for freezing. 
HENDERSON BUSH LIMA. 65 days. Sometimes 
called Baby Lima and known in the South as a 
Butter Bean. Market growers and canners cvery- 
where like it because of its earliness and heavy 
yield. Pods are flat, straight to slightly curved, 
234 inches long, 34 inch wide, with 3 or 4 flattish 
green Beans turning white at maturity. 
BURPEE IMPROVED BUSH. 75 days. The best 
of the flat-seeded Bush Limas. Plants are large, 
_ erect, vigorous and very productive. Pods are 414 
to 51% inches long and 1 to 1% inches broad, slightly 
curved, containing 4 or 5 very large Beans of fine 
quality. Good for freezing. 
PEERLESS (U. S. No. 243). 71 days. A Bush Lima 
developed primarily for the canning and freezing 
trade. The main stem is very short, supporting many 
erect branches. Pods are set at base of branches in 
a cluster, being difficult to pick by hand, but ideally 
suited to vining. Pods are shorter than 242, curved, 
containing 2 or 3 Beans. Beans at table maturity 
are excellent green, with unexcelled quality; prolific, 
particularly in the East, Has excellent ability to set 
under adverse weather conditions. 
