. Dreer's garden calendar : 1876. Seeds Catalogs; Gardens Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. 30 Dreer's Garden Calendar. NEW VEGETABLES, Or varieties of recent introduction, and omissions in general list. Price, 10 cents per packet, except when noted. DRKER'S IMPROVKD LIMA BEAN. This variety was introduced to notice in' the Spring of 1875, is the result of morethan thirty years careful selection, until it has established its present character, early ma- turity, proliticness and'supe- rior quality ; while the shell- ing becomes an easy matter from the fact of the pods being entirely full, formin
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1876. Seeds Catalogs; Gardens Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. 30 Dreer's Garden Calendar. NEW VEGETABLES, Or varieties of recent introduction, and omissions in general list. Price, 10 cents per packet, except when noted. DRKER'S IMPROVKD LIMA BEAN. This variety was introduced to notice in' the Spring of 1875, is the result of morethan thirty years careful selection, until it has established its present character, early ma- turity, proliticness and'supe- rior quality ; while the shell- ing becomes an easy matter from the fact of the pods being entirely full, forming one against another like peas in a pod. § per pint. 20 cts. per The AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST of November, 1874, says: " In these beans the pods are not only full, with no spaces between, but are as full as they can stick, the seeds so crowding one another that the ends of the ce!)tral beans are square; the bean i^ much thicker than the ordinary kind. A vine of this kind bearing the same number of pods as one of the ordinary variety would, we should judge, yield nearly if not twice as much'in shelled beans. The pod being so completely filled, the shelling becomes an easy matter, and the beans when cooked are much superior to tlie ordinary ones, as the amount of skins is much smaller in proportion to the enclosed nutriment.' "We regard the improving of this bean as one of the most important of the recent contributions to ; GEO. PAIST, Chester Co., Pa., writes ns under date of 11 Month, 17tb, 1875: "I bought of you last spring 120 of Dreer's Improved Lima Beans, planted them on May loth: 119 beans grew and b're the best crop of beans I ever saw; (my crop of common Lima Beans in the same field were poor:) as some one stole a ^lart of them I cannot give the full C|uantity raised. One pole shelled over four quMrts green beans. A half peck of green pods shelled one-quarter peck of beans. Seven pecks of dry pods shelled 1
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