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BEANS — POLE. LIMA VARIETIES — Continued 
FLORIDA BUTTER OR SPECKLED POLE LIMA | ‘ 80 Days 
Vine medium heavy. Pod medium dark, 3 to 3% inches long, thin, flat. 
Green shelled beans, pale creamy white color, fine flavor. In the Sieva 
class with a colored seed. Seed cream, purple speckled, medium small. 
LEONARD’S IMPROVED FLORIDA BUTTER POLE LIMA 80 Days 
A distinct variety. Pods large, beans very tender and of excellent 
quality. Heavy yielders. Seed is more than double the size of Florida 
Butter, very striking in appearance, creamy white, mottled with purple. 
KING OF THE GARDEN LIMA 88 Days 
The old standard market and family sort. The vine begins to produce 
pods at the foot of the pole and the bearing season continues until frost. 
Pods large and well filled with beans of mammoth size. 
LARGE WHITE LIMA 88 Days 
Very productive. A favorite among the Lima Bean growers for the mar- 
ket. Pods contain 3 to 4 beans, which are large, white and flat. 
WILLOW LEAF POLE LIMA 85 Days 
Very similar to Sieva but with narrow, willow-like leaves and thus more 
resistant to the conditions of hot and dry weather in those sections of the 
South where it is grown. 
BEANS—POLE OR RUNNING VARIETIES 
CutturE. On well enriched soil, set firmly in the ground every 3 or 
4 feet each way, poles that are, when set, about 6 feet high. Some time 
after’ bush beans are planted, plant six or eight pole beans one inch deep 
near the base of each stake and later thin to three or four plants to the 
pole. Thirty pounds of pole beans generously plants an acre and one 
pound plants one hundred hills. The pole bean bears over a longer period 
than the bush bean and is generally considered of superior cutee but it 
requires more labor, longer time to mature and is more sensitive to ad- 
verse climate and soil conditions. Side dressing with complete commercial 
fertilizer desirable when first blooms appear. 
BLUE LAKE 64 Days 
Pods are round, slightly curved, tender, fleshy, stringless and fiberless, 
medium green; used in canning and freezing. Vines are 4 to 5 feet tall. 
Seeds are entirely white and small oval in shape. 
CREASEBACK, STRIPED OR SCOTIA 72 Days 
A very hardy and productive cornfield Bean. Pods dark green, 6% to 7 
inches long, round straight and creasebacked; slightly stringy, very fleshy, 
fine grained, attractive and of good quality. Seed light tan, black striped. 
CREASEBACK, WHITE 63 Days 
An extremely early Pole Bean. Vines small to medium and wonderfully 
productive, bearing pods in clusters of from 4 to 12 and medium in length. 
An excellent shipper. Seed small oval, white. 
CUT SHORT, RED SPECKLED OR CORN HILL 73 Days 
A fine variety for planting with Corn, 5% to 6 feet tall; pods 4 inches 
long, straight, thick, crisp when young. Seed grey, red speckled, small, 
oval. 
DUTCH CASE KNIFE, EARLY 65 Days 
Vines moderately vigorous, climbing well, and excellent for a corn hill 
bean. Leaves are large, crumpled; pods 6 to 8 inches long, flat, green in 
cane becoming creamy white later. Beans broad, kidney shaped and white 
in solor. 
GENUINE CORNFIELD 71 Days 
Pods round, Straight to slightly curved, stringless while young, moderately 
fibrous, fleshy, medium green becoming purple splashed. Seed oval, tan 
with irregular brown mottling and stripes. 
