BUSH LIMA BEANS 
Burpee Bush Lima. 77 days. Medium large plant, 
vigorous and productive. Pods 41% to 5 inches, 
slender, containing 3 or 4 dingy white, large, broad, 
flat, high-quality Beans. 
Burpee Improved Bush Lima. 75 days. The truly 
enormous pods are borne abundantly and are filled 
with handsome thick Beans, each pod containing 
4 or 5 seeds. The dry Beans are large, plump, some- 
what wrinkled, white with a greenish tinge. 
Cangreen Bush Lima. 66 days. 1943 All-America 
Selection. The green-seeded Henderson Bush Lima, 
retaining its fresh green color after being cooked, 
canned or dried. It is more nutritive, retaining 
vitamins, with a big marketing advantage over 
white Beans. Prolific, thrifty and vigorous growth. 
Fordhook Bush Lima. 75 days. Most popular dwarf 
Lima Bean for market gardening. Plants are upright 
and highly productive. Pods are straight, with 3 or 
A Beans of high quality. It is also called the Potato 
Lima Bean. Dry Beans are white with a green tinge. 
One of the heaviest producers. 
Fordhook Bush Lima 242. 72 days. All-America 
Selection. The heaviest producer and finest large, 
thick-seeded, high-quality Lima Bean. Sets basal 
pods in hot dry weather where other Iarge Limas fail. 
Seeds white, tinged with green. 
Henderson Bush Lima. 66 days. Known as the Baby 
Lima and down South as Butter Bean. Its small 
size makes this very popular in these times where 
small Beans bring a higher price than larger ones. 
Pod contains 3 or 4 seeds and it is a heavy bearer. 
Jackson Wonder Bush Lima. 65 days. The Georgia 
Calico Bean so popular in the South. Glossy, dark 
green, 3-inch flat pods with 3 or 4 mottled buff and 
deep purple seeds. Drought-resistant; sure cropper; 
medium spreading plants, like Henderson’s. 
POLE CLIMBING OR CORN BEANS 
CuLture.—Plant in successive sowings with liberally 
enriched soil, in hills 3 to 4 inches apart, placing 5 or 6 
seeds about 2 inches deep im each hill. They should be 
staked with stout poles 7 to 8 feet high, well set in the 
ground so they will not blow over. 
Kentucky Wonder or Old Homestead. 65 days. The 
old standby for home, market, and canning. Vigorous 
climbing vine and most productive. The long green 
pods, borne in clusters, reach 9 to 10 inches; crisp and 
nearly round when young, becoming irregular and 
spongy on ripening. Its flavor is unexcelled. Dry 
Beans are dun-colored. 
Kentucky Wonder Wax. 66 days. One of the very 
best. The pods are 7 to 8 inches long, very thick, 
meaty, waxy yellow and nearly stringless. The vine 
is prolific; seeds oval to flat, deep brown. 
Lazy Wife. 74 days. A good climber, very productive. 
Pods borne in large clusters, 5 to 7 inches long, broad, 
thick, fleshy and stringless. Seeds white and plump. 
London Horticultural or Speckled Cranberry. 70 days. 
Vines moderately vigorous, with large, light-colored 
leaves; pods short, broad, pale green, but becoming 
streaked with bright red. Beans large, ovate, flesh- 
colored, splashed and spotted with wine-red and of 
the highest quality either green or dry. 
McCaslan. 65 days. Dark green pods, 7 to 8 inches 
long, flat, curved, brittle. Popular for snaps, green 
or shell. Seed white. 
Striped Creaseback (Nancy Davis). 73 days. Round 
green pods, 6 to 7 inches long, very productive, al- 
most stringless, with 8 or 9 Beans in a pod. Seed 
oval, with blackish stripes on buff. Grows well on 
cornstalks, 
POLE LIMA BEANS 
Challenger (Dreer’s or Fordhook Pole). 92 days. 
Pods about 4 inches Iong, containing 3 or 4 Beans of 
good flavor. A very late Pole Lima with pods and 
seed similar to Fordhook Bush. 
Florida Butter, Speckled. 78 days. Dependable, 
popular Southern variety. Similar to Carolina. 
Tall, vigorous, prolific over a long season. Pods 
are in clusters, 3 inches or Jonger, 3 Beans per pod, 
and small seeds are buff spotted mahogany. 
King of Garden Lima. 88 days. This is one of the 
older varieties which still outrivals most other Pole 
Lima Beans. Its vines make luxuriant growth and 
bear enormous pods 5 to 8 inches long, averaging 5 
perfect Beans to the pod. Large, early, prolific. 
Large Green Seeded. 84 days. This strain Is more 
attractive than King of Garden Lima. Pods average 
514 inches in length, containing about 4 Beans of 
unsurpassed flavor. Seeds have a decided green 
tinge. In great demand by both private and market 
gardeners on account of its superior quality. 
Small White Sieva or Carolina. 77 days. Pole form, 
similar to Henderson Bush Lima, and very popular. 
Vigorous climber to 12 feet; prolific over a long 
period. There are 3 or 4 excellent quality, white, 
flat, smooth Beans in a 3 to 3/4-inch pod. 
SOUP OR SHELL BEANS 
Navy or Boston Pea. 95 days. Pods about 4 inches long, 
containing 5 to 7 small white Beans. 
Red Kidney. 95 days. Pods 6 to 7 inches long, flat, 
broad and straight, containing 5 or 6 Beans. 
White Kidney. 100 days. Pods 6 to 61% inches long, 
flat, almost straight. For dry use. 
White Marrow or Cranberry. 100 days. Pods 5 to 51% 
inches long, flat, straight, holding 5 or 6 almost round 
white Beans. Excellent for baking. 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS 
Long Island Improved. 90 days. The light green, 
tightly folded Sprouts look like miniature heads of 
cabbage, and cover the center stem. Culture is the 
same as for cabbage, transplanting when 5 or 6 
inches tall. 
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