BUSH LIMA VARIETIES 
CULTURE. Lima Beans require 
even more heat than other Beans. 
Should not be planted until ground 
is thoroughly warmed. Bush Limas 
should be sown on good garden soil 
in 2 to 8 ft. rows, 3 to 6 inches 
apart, eye down, cover 1 inch if 
planted in light soils, less in heavy 
soil. One pound will plant 50 to 60 
feet. Pole Limas are more tender 
than the Bush Limas. Set 6 ft. 
poles, 4 feet each way and drop 4 
to 6 beans, eye downward around 
each pole, thinning to 3 plants when 
up. 
BURPEE’S IMPROVED BUSH 
(75 Days) — Similar to Burpee’s 
Bush Lima, but slightly earlier 
and longer podded. Plant large, 
erect, vigorous, very productive; 
pods contain four to five seeds. 
Dry beans, large, plump, flat-oval, 
surface somewhat wrinkled, color 
white with greenish tinge. 
FORDHOOK BUSH (75 Days) — 
Vine strong, erect and true bush 
lima growth. Foliage heavy and 
very dark green in color. The 
stalks that produce the blossom 
are thrown out from the lateral 
and main stalks. Pods are large, 
thick, containing three to five 
beans. The most popular market 
gardeners’ lima bean. 
FORDHOOK No. 242 (75 Days)— 
Plants similar to Fordhook but 
with greater spreading habit and 
somewhat earlier. Pods 3% to 4 
inches with 3 to 4 beans per pod. 
Yields well under adverse condi- 
tions. Excellent freezing variety. 
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HENDERSON’S BUSH OR 
DWARE SIEVA (66 Days) — Our 
stock is the true Henderson’s Bush 
Lima and not the common Baby 
Lima. Plants bushy, very produc- 
tive. Pods flat, 3 inches long, con- 
taining three to four seeds. Green 
shelled beans small, flat and of ex- 
cellent quality. 
JACKSON WONDER OR CALICO 
(66 Days) — Vine dark, 12 inch, 
thick bush with heavy leaf growth. 
Pods dark, % x 8 inches, flat 
medium thin. In every way is like 
the Henderson’s Bush except in 
color of seed. Seed is light buff, 
purple speckled. Heavy yielder. 
POLE LIMA VARIETIES 
KING OF THE GARDEN (88 
Days)—Old standard market and 
family sort. Bearing season con- 
tinues until frost. Pods large and 
well filled with beans of mammoth 
size. 
POLE OR RUNNING 
VARIETIES 
CULTURE. On well-enriched soil, 
set poles firmly in ground every 3 
or 4 feet each way. Poles should 
be set about 6 feet high. Some time 
after bush beans are planted, plant 
six or eight pole beans one inch 
deep near 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 
quality but it requires more labor, 
longer time to mature and is more 
sensitive to adverse climate and soil 
conditions. Side dressing with com- 
plete commercial fertilizer desirable 
when first blooms appear. 
KENTUCKY WONDER 
OR OLD HOMESTEAD 
(65 Days) — Vines vigor- 
ous, climbing well, and 
very productive, bearing 
its pods in large clusters; 
blossoms white; pods 
green. Stringless, 8 to 9 
inches long; nearly round 
when young and very 
crisp, although at matur- 
ity they become irregular 
and spongy. The dry beans 
are long, oval, dun- 
colored. 
Days) Vine medium 
dark, strong growing pole 
type, with good leaf 
growth. Pods light, 8 
inches long, flat medium 
thick, broad, stringless 
when young, crisp, fiber- 
less and well flavored. 
McCASLAN’S POLE (65° 
BEET 
CULTURE. As soon as the soil 
can be worked in spring, sow beet 
seed in 12- to 18-inch rows for hand 
cultivation or 18- to 30-inch rows 
for machine cultivation, dropping 
12 seeds to the foot. Cover the beet 
seed, one-half inch. Later, thin the 
Beets to 3 to 4 inches apart. Plant- 
ed April ist the early varieties 
should be marketable June ist or 
the crop may be advanced several 
weeks by starting under glass and 
transplanting to the open, first giv- 
ing the beet tops a severe pruning. 
Use 1 ounce of seed to 75 feet of 
row and 6 pounds to the acre. Beets 
sown in early July should be ready 
to store in pits or in sand in the 
cellar when freezing weather be- 
gins. Number of days is from 
planting to edible root. 
BLOOD TURNIP, EARLY IM- 
PROVED (60 Days) — An extra 
selected stock of Blood Turnip 
having large coarse tops and roots. 
Requires considerable time to ma- 
ture. Excellent for summer and 
autumn. 
DETROIT DARK RED (55 Days) 
—Tops medium, dark green tinged 
with red. Roots globular. Color 
deep ox-blood red. Flesh dark red 
with indistinct lighter red zones. 
Fine quality, sweet and tender. 
EGYPTIAN, CROSBY’S (50 Days) 
— An extra early variety especial- 
ly adapted for the market garden- 
er and home garden. Roots aver- 
age 3 inches, of dark red color and 
almost globular; flesh distinct ver- 
milion, which it retains in cooking. 
Pleasing sweet flavor. Tops medi- 
um. 
SWISS CHARD 
SWISS CHARD, DARK GREEN 
WHITE RIB (55 Days) — Very 
broad, thick, heavy, short white 
stem and a large, broad, thick, 
very much crumpled and savoyed 
spear shaped leaf, growing to 26 
and 28 inches tall. Leaves very 
glossy and waxy looking; upright 
growth. Best of all the chards; 
leaves make the most tender of 
greens and the broad white stems 
used as asparagus are excellent. 
BROCCOLI 
GREEN ITALIAN SPROUTING 
(60 Days) — A distinct variety of 
the sprouting type. Forms large 
head consisting of a cluster of 
bluish-green flower heads. When 
central head is removed, plant de- 
velops numerous lateral sprouts, 
each with a small head. These are 
cut, leaving about 6 inches of the 
stem. Both stems and heads are 
cooked and served like cauliflower. 
