. Dreer's garden book 1928. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 14 /flEmyA-DREER^ RELIABLE VEGETABLE SEEM 'HMDEUTO BUSH LIMA BEANS CULTURE—Lima Beans are very susceptible to cold and seeds should not be planted until the ground has become thoroughly warm. Sow about the same time that maple trees unfold their first leaves. Being gross feeders, they should be sown on ^ ell enriched land, with the rows 2t feet apart, dropping the bean six inches apart in the row, eye down. The t
. Dreer's garden book 1928. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 14 /flEmyA-DREER^ RELIABLE VEGETABLE SEEM 'HMDEUTO BUSH LIMA BEANS CULTURE—Lima Beans are very susceptible to cold and seeds should not be planted until the ground has become thoroughly warm. Sow about the same time that maple trees unfold their first leaves. Being gross feeders, they should be sown on ^ ell enriched land, with the rows 2t feet apart, dropping the bean six inches apart in the row, eye down. The two halves of the Lima Bean become its seedling leaves, and unless the Beans are placed "eye down" the young plants find it most difficult to push through the soil. Fre- quently the neck of the seedling is broken in the attempt which of course stands for loss of the plant. In light soil, cover about one inch deep, less on heavier soils. A good fertilizer applied at the rate of 20 pounds to every hundred feet of row, when the plants begin to bloom, will materially increase the yields. Hill plants slightly early in the season to hold the pods off the ground. One pound will plant 50 feet of row, | bushel will plant one acre. 103 Burpee Improved Bush Lima. Both pods and beans are of truly enormous size, some pods measuring five to six inches long. The plant grows in dwarf form, strong and vigorous, producing large numbers of handsome pods, grown in clusters and well filled with Beans which are of a delicious flavor. It is a great improvement over the original Burpee's Bush Lima Bean, being much larger, more productive, and the pods will average more beans to a given number of pods. Pkt., 15 cts.; J lb., 30 cts.; lb. 50 cts.; 2 lbs., 90 cts.; 5 lbs., $, prepaid. 105 Dreer's Bush Lima. The Beans grow close together in the pods, pro- ducing three and four beans each, sometimes five, and are thick, sweet and succulent. An excellent variety, which is particularly valuable
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