. Descriptive catalog of vegetables [for canning and freezing]. Canning and preserving; Frozen fruit; Frozen vegetables; Vegetables Preservation; Canning and preserving Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Herbs Catalogs. 10 ASSOCIATED SEED GROWERS, Peerless: A recent introduction LIMA BEANS (continued) TZ inches inches Days * FORDHOOK 242 3% 1 75 Developed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Plant as tall as regular Fordhook but more spreading. Pods slightly curved, with thinner walls than Fordhook, c
. Descriptive catalog of vegetables [for canning and freezing]. Canning and preserving; Frozen fruit; Frozen vegetables; Vegetables Preservation; Canning and preserving Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Herbs Catalogs. 10 ASSOCIATED SEED GROWERS, Peerless: A recent introduction LIMA BEANS (continued) TZ inches inches Days * FORDHOOK 242 3% 1 75 Developed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Plant as tall as regular Fordhook but more spreading. Pods slightly curved, with thinner walls than Fordhook, containing 3-4 light green beans of same excellent quality. Produces heavily under high temperature conditions. Seeds greenish cream and light green: 30 per oz. * HENDERSON'S BUSH .... 2% y4 65 Sometimes called Baby Lima, and known in the South as a Butter Bean. The Asgrow strain has been bred particularly for increased yielding power and concentration in season. Plant small, dark green, erect, bushy, very early. Pods flat, containing 3-4 flattish, small oval beans. Seeds creamy white: 70 per oz. * PEERLESS (U. S. No. 243) 3% 1 71 A dwarf Fordhook type introduced by the U. -6. Department of Agriculture, developed from a cross of Fordhook x Sieva. Plant as small as Henderson's Bush, with distinctive gray-green foliage; pods similar to Fordhook. Seeds, both immature and dry, some- what smaller than Fordhook: 40 per oz. * TRIUMPH 2% 7/8 70 Developed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture from a cross between Fordhook and Sieva; awarded the All-America Silver Medal for 1949. Plants somewhat more comoact than Henderson's Bush, with dull dark green leaves; productive, with concentrated basal set. Pods straight, blunt and tightly filled, mostly with three beans of Baby Lima type but plumper and of brighter green color. Seeds white, heavily dimpled and wrinkled: 65 per oz. POLE LIMA BEANS CHALLENGER (Fordhook Pole) 4 1% 92 A potato lima, with pod and seed of Fordhook type. Plant vigorou
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