McCASLAN 
(Days to Maturity, 66) 
Uses: Home and market gardens. Snap or dry 
shell beans. 
Vine: 5 to 5% feet tall, medium, dark green, 
vigorous, good climber. 
Pods: 7 to 8 inches, fleshy, medium green, 
slightly stringy, flattened and twisted. 
Seed: Ivory-white, oblong and flattened. 
LAZY WIFE (White Cranberry) 
(Days to Maturity, 75) 
Uses: Snap or green shell beans. Home gar- 
dlens. Good dry shell bean. 
Vine: 41% to 5 feet tall, glossy medium green. 
Pods: 7 to 8 inches long, round, stringless, 
fiberless when young. Develops strong strings at 
maturity. 
Seed: White, round-oval shape. 
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 
HENDERSON (Baby Lima) 
(Days to Maturity, 65) 
Uses: Widely used for home and market gar- 
dens. Principal canning variety. Good dry shelled 
bean. Excellent for freezing. 
Bush: 16 inches tall, vigorous, erect, uniform. 
Pods: 3 to 34 inches long, dark green, broad- 
Hat, slightly curved, 3 to 4 seeds per pod. 
Seed: Creamy white, small, flat. 
CLARK’S BUSH 
(Green-Seeded Henderson) 
(Days to Maturity, 66) 
Uses: Excellent canning and freezing variety, 
because of freedom from white beans at all pick- 
ing stages. 
Bush: 16 inches tall, vigorous, productive, sim- 
ilar to Henderson. 
Pods: 3 inches long, 3 to 4 seeds per pod, sim- 
ilar to Henderson. 
Seed: Has green cotyledon, giving every dry 
seed a green color. 
WOOD'S PROLIFIC 
(Days to Maturity, 71) 
Usese: Very similar to Henderson Bush Lima 
but more vigorous, a little larger and somewhat 
longer in season. 
DIXIE BUTTERPEA, WHITE LIMA 
ANEW VARIETY FOR 1954 
(Days to Maturity, 75) 
Uses: Home and market gardens. 
Bush: 16-22 inches tall, rich dark green 
foliage. Vigorous, sturdy, very prolific. 
Pods: 314-4 inches long, slightly curved, 
broad, oval, and filled with 3 to 4 green tinted 
beans per pod. 
Seed: White, small and plump, almost round. 
18 
snap beans and should not be planted as early. 
Plant as soon as the ground is warm, in rows 3 
feet apart, 144 inches deep dropping 3 or 4 
beans every 8 or 10 inches. Cultivate same as 
snap beans. 
Bush Lima Beans, Fordhook No. 242 
FORDHOOK NO. 242 
(Days to Maturity, 75) 
Uses: Market and home gardens. Adapted | 
to freezing. 
Bush: 16 to 20 inches tall, vigorous, erect, 
dark green. 
Pods: 4 inches long, 3 to 4 seeds per pod, 
plump, easy to open. 
Seed: White tinged with green, large, thick. 
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