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Title: Henderson's wholesale catalogue. : seeds, implements, fertilizers, insecticides &c. for market gardeners and truckers
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Peter Henderson & Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seed industry and trade Catalogs Seeds Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs Fertilizers Catalogs Insecticides Catalogs
Publisher: New York : Peter Henderson & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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cme of perfection, surpassing any other strain or type on the market.The plants, of true bush form, 1§ feet in height, are of healthy, sturdy, upright growth—re-quiring neither poles nor stakes—and bear, from July until frost, almost unbelievable quan-tities of 5 to 6 inch pods, each containing usually four large, thick beans averaging as largeas those of the large pole Limas, and whether used green or cured they are of superb quality— tender, rich and buttery, the true Lima flavor. In the green state their tender freshnessis maintained beyond the ordinary, accounted for by the pods being unusually fleshy andthick and the foliage luxuriant and sheltering. Other merits of this phenomenal Bush Lima areearliness, abundance and continuity of yield. First pickings fit for the table may be taken inthe latitude of New York in July, and from that time until killed by frost a continuous supplyof this most luscious of beans may be gathered. (See cut.) Price, 30c. pt., 50c. qt., $3 50 pk.
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HENDEKSONS EARLY LEVIATHAN POLE LIMA BEAN. ONE WEEK EARLIER THAN ANY!TWO WEEKS EARLIER THAN MOST! Of Superior Quality. Immense Size. Wonderfully Productive. Leviathan is one week earlier than any large Pole Lima yetoffered and two weeks earlier than most, consequently it willprove a boon to thousands of growers. We cannot praise toohighly the splendid quality and enormous productiveness of thispeerless variety. The pods grow in large clusters—we havefrequently seen from 5 to 10 in a cluster—and they are alwayswell filled with the most delicious beans of beautiful green color.Price, 30c. qt., $1.90 pk., $7.00 bush. Your Leviathan Pole Lima Beans are par excellence in earliness, size, flavorand productiveness far ahead of any Limas I have ever seen. Their qualities areall good. C. H. JONES, Galveston, Texas. HENDERSONS IDEAL Pole Lima Bean. THE BEST MAIN-CROP LIMA GROWN.Enormously Prolific. Beans of Gigantic Size. Quality Superb. Hendersons Ideal Lima is not extra early, but it matu

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