. Buist's garden guide and almanac : 1902. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. BUIST'S GARDEN GUIDE. B urpee's Dwarf, or Bush Lima. —This variety pro- duces beans as large ns the Pole Lima, but in every other respect they are similar to the Hen- derson, except in quality, which we regard as superior, having more of the flavor of the old Lima; the}' are how- ever more liable to contain runners, as it is a hybrid va- riety and a difficult matter to keep them free from them; the plants grow about twenty inches high, o f stout growth
. Buist's garden guide and almanac : 1902. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. BUIST'S GARDEN GUIDE. B urpee's Dwarf, or Bush Lima. —This variety pro- duces beans as large ns the Pole Lima, but in every other respect they are similar to the Hen- derson, except in quality, which we regard as superior, having more of the flavor of the old Lima; the}' are how- ever more liable to contain runners, as it is a hybrid va- riety and a difficult matter to keep them free from them; the plants grow about twenty inches high, o f stout growth and erect, yet branch- ing into a bush Burpee's Dwarf or Bush I^ima Bean, from two to three feet in diameter; it must be observed that no variety of the Lima, either dwarf or tall should be planted until the weather becomes settled, as the}'will invariably rot in the. groi Pint, 20cts.; quart, 35 cts.; peck, $; bushel, $ WAX OR YELLOW=PODDED VARIETIES. Dwarf Butter Wax Bismarck (Rust-proof).—This celebrated variety, which we intro- duced a few years since, is one of the most attractive and famous varieties of Wax Beans known in Germany ; its great extraordinary length of pods, at- tracted our atten- tion in the markets of Berlin in '87; we found them in qual- ity so far superior to any variety of the Wax that we had ever tasted that we secured sufficient for seed purposes for that year, and have since then grown them very exten- sively ; they cannot b e recommended too highly to all lovers of the Butter Bean. They are very early, the pods of which are pro- duced in great pro- fusion, and will av- erage six inches in length, are almost transparent, exceed- ingly brittle and of a very delicate flavor; the bean when dry is of a beautiful b 1 u e i s h quart, 30cts. ; peck, $ ; bush., |,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these il
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