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Pole Lima Beans.
One quart to 150 hills ; 10 to 12 quarts to the acre.
Add 15 cents per quart on Lima Beans if to be sent by mail.
/Xarge Lima. — Large white bean, very tender ; used without shell ; equally
good in winter if soaked ten hours before cooking. ./ 2 pint, 10c. Pint, 15c.
Quart, 25c. Gallon, 90c. Peck, $1.50. Bushel, ?5.2$.
I/Ford's Mammoth Extra Large Lima Bean. — Its pods are large in
size, containing from 5 to 8 mammoth beans. In quality they are unsurpassed,
and excel other varieties for productiveness. l /2 • pint, 10c. Pint, 15c. Quart.
25c. Gallon, 90c. Peck, Si -50 Bushel, $6. 00.
. f King- of Garden Lima Beans. — Outrivals all other Pole Lima Beans,
Its vine has a luxurious growth, which abounds with enormous pods, often
from 5 to 8 inches long, and filled frequently with five or six perfect beans to
a pod. These beans, in their green state, are quite large and luscious, but when
dry. shrink to the ordinary size. It is large, early, prolific, and unequaled
in quality. ) 2 pint, 10c. Pint. 15c. Quart, 25c. Gallon, 90c. Peck, $1.50.
Bushel, £5.50.
I Dreer's Improved Pole Lima. — The distinctive features of this are
fearly maturity, large, yield, and extra quality. The bean itself is thick and
round, rather than oval shaped, as most other Limas are. ./ 2 pint, 10c. Pint,
15c. Quart, 25c. Gallon, ^1.00. Peck, 5i-75- Bushel. 56.00.
Culture of Pole Lima.— Choose light soil and make small hills three feet apart, having
previously spaded deeply and fertilized. Plant long poles two feet deep in the center
of the hills. Allow six beans to each hill, covering them barely beneath the surface,
their eyes downward. Do not allow more than three to climb a pole, but remove extra
plants "to hills where less than three have sprouted. The Lima Bean is very delicate,
and often fails to sprout from slight causes: t bey should not be planted' until the
sround is warm.
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Beets.
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Our Beet Seed is grown from SELECTED TRANSPLANTED ROOTS and
has given truckers and market gardeners, who appreciate a high standard of
perfection, the utmost satisfaction. One ounce will sow 50 feet of soil, 5 to 6
pounds for an acre. The soil best suited for beet culture is that which is rather
light and well enriched. Sow in drills 1 foot apart and 1 inch deep, as early
as the ground can be worked. When the plants are large enough thin out to
stand 6 inches apart in rows ; continue sowing for a succession as late as the
middle of August. Keep well cultivated.
CROSBY'S IMPROVED EGYPTIAN BEET.
^Crosby Extra Early.— A very
superior strain of blood-red Egypt-
ian, carefully selected for years by
Mr. Crosby, a noted market gar-
dener, whose aim was to secure a
perfect forcing variety. The re-
sults obtained were handsome
form, good size, few small tops,
very small tap root, fine quality,
and', above all, quick rapid growth.
The shape is very desirable, not
quite so fiat as the ordinary Egypt-
ian, nor so round as the Eclipse.
Best shape for packing and ship-
ping. Takes on its turnip shape
and looks well even in the early
stages of its growth, on which ac-
count it is preferred. This is a
decided advantage to those who force for real early market, and especially for
a market where beets are sold in bunches. Once used, it is preferred to all
others for forcing in frames or for first sowing outside. Packets, 5 and 10c.
% pound, 15c. l / 2 pound, 25c. Pound, 40c.
Early Market Beet.— This is a very early, and makes a large, market-
able beet sooner than manv other sorts begin to bulb. When cut it has a beau-
tiful red color, which makes it attractive at the table. It is very shapely in
form, good size for market purposes, and retains all its tenderness. It pleases
everybody, sells well everywhere, hence continually grows more and more in
favor. Packet, 5c. Ounce, 10c. »+' pound, 15c. l 2 pound, 25c. Pound, 40c.
yT. Bolgiano's Early Blood Red Turnip Beet.— Handsome in shape,
early, deep red color, and gives satisfaction to the most practical and experienced