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Title: Novelties and specialties
Identifier: CAT31295783 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson & Stokes; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Nursery stockPennsylvania PhiladelphiaCatalogs; VegetablesSeedsPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaCatalogs; FlowersSeedsPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaCatalogs; FruitPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaCatalogs; GardeningEquipment and suppliesCatalogs; Seed industry and tradePennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaCatalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. Johnson & Stokes
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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18 JOHNSON & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA New Jersey Grown Pole Lima Beans 1 VoDOO)'
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Average Pods of ford's mammoth, 8 Inches Long. WHY THEY ARE THE BEST For nearly a half a century Southern New Jersey has had the reputation, and deservedly so, of growing the finest Lima Beans in the United States, the product being eagerly sought after by Boston, New York, Philadelphia and other East- ern cities, for both seed and consumption. For some years past, however, many seedsmen have been growing their supplies in Southern California, where they are grown very cheaply and without poles. We have made hundreds of tests of various Linias from California seed and find the product much inferior in both quality and productiveness to those grown in New Jersey. It is also difficult to get them to take the poles, owing to the method by which they are grown, while the beans are smaller and lack the rich buttery flavor peculiar to the New Jersey Limas. Ford's Mammoth Podded This grand Lima Bean is the result of over twenty years'" selection by Jas. Ford, one of the oldest market gardeners around Philadelphia. The pods grow to an average length of eight inches, and are produced in great clusters, with from five to seven beans per pod, of most excellent quality,, for using either green or dry. The vines grow vigorously,, setting the beans early at the bottom of the pole, and con- tinue in bearing right up to frost. Ford's Mammoth Podded is without exception the largest podded, finest flavored and most productive of all Lima Beans. Pkt., 10c; pint, 35c; qt., 55c, postpaid; by freight or express, qt., 40c; 2 qts , 75c; peck, $2.25; bush., $8.00. SEIBERT'S EARLY LIMA. This new variety is the earliest True Pole Lima Bean. The vine is very vigorous and productive. The pods are large but thin, and can be more easily opened than those of other varieties. The green beans are very large, handsome and of the best quality. In earliness, ease of shelling, size, beauty and quality of the green beans, this variety is superior, and must come to be recognized as one of the best of all for either the garden or market. Pint, 30c; qt., 50c; peck,, $1.85; bush., $7.00. SHALLCROSS MARKET QUEEN LIMA. A rare novelty in Lima Beans offered last season for the first time. See Novelties, page 1. Pkt., 15c; pint, 35c; qt.,65c; peck, $3.00. Supply limited. JERSEY EXTRA EARLY LEVI A. The pods are large and numerous, invariably having from four to five beans in each. These beans appear in Philadelphia markets nearly two weeks ahead of ordinary limas, selling at from $3 00 to $4.00 per bushel of pods, and previous to the intro- duction of Seibert's Early, were considered the earliest. Pint. 30c; qt., 50c; peck, $1.85; bush., $7.00. STOKES' EVERGREEN LIMA. The Stokes' Ever- green not only holds the full size and great productiveness of the Salem Mammoth, but has the remarkable additional quality of holding, in all stages of growth, and even when dry and shelled, the deep green color of the unripe state,, thus giving the dry beans, when cooked during the winter and spring, not only the green appearance, but also the de- licious flavor of beans fresh from the vine. Pint, 35c: qt.,. 60c; peck, $2.50. KING OF THE GARDEN LIMA. More prolific than the ordinary lima, bearing pods five to six inches long, in clusters of four and five, with five to six beans in a pod. Pint, 30c; qt , 50c; peck, $1.75 ; bush., $6.75. DREER'S IMPROVED, or CHALLENGER POLE LIMA. When green, is as lavge as the Large Lima, thicker, sweeter and more tender and nutritious, remaining green in the pod for a long time after maturing. Pint, 30c; qt., 50c : peck, $1.75; bush., 86.75. SALEM IMPROVED LIMA. A selection from the Large Lima Bean, of extraordinary size and deep green color. Pint, 30c; qt., 55c; peck, $2.00; bush., $7.75. LARGE WHITE LIMA. (Extra Selected Size.) The well-known favorite. Our strain is fine. Pint, 25c; qt., 45c; peck, $1.60; bush., $6.00. Carolina, or Sewee. Beans about half the size of Large Lima. Pint, 25c; qt., 45c; peck, $1.65; bush., $6.25.

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