Fordhook Bush Lima Beans 
Bush Lima Beans 
Sow 1 quart of seed to 100 feet of drill 
Cutture. Seed 2 inches apart or plant in 
rows 2 feet apart and make hills 1 foot apart 
in the rows. Soil C. Vitamins A,B, GAGs 
Baby Fordhook. (70 days.) Stocky bush; 
big root system; bears green-seeded, thick 
potato-type Limas. Stands cold and wet, 
also extreme heat. Very prolific. 
Burpee’s Improved. (75 days.) Bears an 
abundance of thick, kidney-shaped Beans. 
Fordhook. (75 days.) Everybody loves 
these delicious thick, roundish Beans of 
just the right shade of green. The sturdy 
bushes bear the pods in clusters of 4 to 6, 
the pods averaging 4 large Beans each. 
FOR A BUMPER CROP, USE NITRAGIN 
ON ALL BEANS. See page 25. 
All Beans weight 60 pounds per bushel 
If Beans are to be sent by Parcel Post, add 
23c per pt.; 27c per qt.; 40c per 14pk.; 80c 
per pk.; $2.60 per bu. This applies to lst 
and 2d zones only. Packets sent postpaid. 
BEANS, BUSH LIMA 
Baby Fordhook 
Burpee’s Improved 
Fordhook 
Green-seeded Henderson Cangreen 
Henderson’s Dwarf 
Woods Prolific 
BEANS, POLE LIMA 
Carpinteria 
Dreer’s Improved Challenger (Potato Lima) 
Early Leviathan 
Giant-podded 
King of the Garden 
Sieva (Small White Lima) 
BEETS, TABLE 
Crosby Egyptian 
Early Blood Turnip 
Early Wonder 
Perfection Detroit Dark Red 
Tall Top Bunching .. 
BEETS, COW (Mangel-Wurzel) 
Golden Tankard 
Mammoth Long Red 
Larger quantities quoted on request. 
BUSH LIMA BEANS 
Fordhook 242. (75 days.) 
Similar to the regular 
Fordhook, but more open 
mn growth. Pods shorter, 
curved, containing 3 to 
4 slightly smaller Beans, 
but of same quality and 
color. 
Green-seeded Henderson 
Cangreen. (66 days.) 
A valuable variety for 
canners and freezers be- 
cause of its productivity 
and quality. The green 
cotyledon eliminates the 
white seeds which appear 
from over-mature pods in 
regular Henderson at the 
processing stage. Vine 
16 inches tall; pods 3 
inches long. 
Henderson’s Dwarf. (75 
days.) Popular Baby 
Lima. Its flavor is ex- 
cellent. 
Woods Prolific. (71 days.) 
A small-seeded variety, 
very early and productive. 
Plants grow about 20 in- 
ches high. 
Pole Limas Beans 
Sow 1 quart of seed to 
100 poles. 
Cuxrture. These require 
poles 8 to 10 feet long. 
Plant in May. Set poles 4 feet apart each 
way, and plant 4 to 6 Beans, 1 inch deep, 
around each pole. Thin to three plants to a 
pole. Soil C. ; 
Carpinteria. (88 days.) Large pods filled 
with plump, thin-skinned, tender, fine- 
flavored Beans. 
Dreer’s Improved Challenger or Potato 
Lima. (92 days.) Beans round and thick, 
of delicious flavor, easy to shell. Immense 
cropper. ; 
Early Leviathan. (80 days.) The earliest 
large Pole Lima. Very productive. 
GIANT-PODDED. (91 days.) The largest 
of all Pole Limas. Pods 7 to 844 inches 
long and 11% inches wide. The Beans are 
extra large and of superb flavor. Vines 10 
to 12 feet high. The pods are produced 
in clusters of from 4 to 8 until killed by frost. 
King of the Garden. (88 days.) Vigorous 
grower, bearing large pods, 5 to 8 inches 
long. Beans large and of rich flavor. 
Sieva or Small White Lima. (77 days.) 
Butter Bean. Early and productive; a 
great drought resister but juicy and of fine 
flavor. 
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All Beans weigh 60 lbs. per bu. 
BEETS, TABLE 
Sow 1 ounce of seed to 60 feet of drill; 
5 pounds to an acre in drills 
Currure. Beets like rather light soil pro- 
vided it is thoroughly mixed with manure. 
For main crop sow in the spring as soon as 
ground becones fit to work, in drills 114 feet 
apart and 1 inch deep. For winter use sow 
as late as July. Thin out to stand 5 to 6 inches 
apart. Soil A. Vitamins B, C, G. 
Crosby Egyptian. (58 days.) Popular va- 
riety with market gardeners. Tops large 
and tall; roots thick flat to turnip shape. 
Flesh purplish red. 
Early Blood Turnip. (60 days.) A home 
and market-garden variety. ‘Tops tall; 
[ote flattened globe shape, dark purplish 
red. 
Early Wonder. (55 days.) A very early dark 
red Beet similar to Crosby Egyptian in 
shape. It is sweet and tender and a good 
variety for the home garden. 
PERFECTION DETROIT DARK RED. 
(62 days.) The ideal Beet for market gar- 
deners. It is the darkest red and most uni- 
form Beet ever introduced. Just the right 
size top for bunching and will run better 
than 99 per cent, extremely dark red in 
color without visible zones. 
TALL TOP BUNCHING. (60 days.) This 
splendid Beet is nearly a perfect globe, 
about 10 inches around, with smooth 
skin free from rootlets. The flesh is a rich 
blood-red, nicely ringed, never stringy and 
always tender and sweet. Excellent for 
canning. 
Cow Beets » Mangel-Wurzels 
Used for feeding cattle. Sow 5 pounds per acre 
Curture. Sow in April and May in 
thoroughly plowed, well-manured soil, in 
drills 2 mches deep and about 18 inches 
apart. Thin out to 12 inches. Low ground is 
best adapted for Mangel-Wurzels. Soil A. 
Golden Tankard. (100 days.) Large, yel- 
low, excellent. 
Mammoth Long Red. (108 days.) Im- 
mense; long red. 
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