Burpee's farm annual 1893 (1893) (20322274688)

Title: Burpee's farm annual 1893
Identifier: burpeesfarmannua1893watl (find matches)
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: W. Atlee Burpee Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. A. : W. Atlee Burpee & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library



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Sewee Pole Bean. The seeds, which are about half size of the large Lima, do not rot in the ground so readily as the latter. The vine is a medium vigorous grower, quite hardy, and enormously productive ; the clusters being borne in such profusion upon the poler that they present the appearance of veritable ropes of pods. from the ground up to a height of six or seven feet. The pods have a uniform length of about three and a half inches and con tain three and four beans each. A given measure will shell out over a third more than the ordinary Lima. They are of a dark green color when cooked, and in their extreme tenderness, delicate qual- ity, and delicious flavor they stand without a peer. We venture to say that anyone once raising them for his own table will every planting season thereafter reserve space for the "Black Lima." EXTRACTS FROM OTHER DESCRIPTIONS SAY :—Its growth is both strong and rapid, not affected by di'outh or heat.—The bunches, or rather clusters of pods, nearly all of which contain four beans each, grow so close together they overlap each other about half, and as there is a continual string of bunches from top to bottom with comparatively few leaves, it produces the singular appear- ance of a string strung with pods around a pole.—It was a grand sight to see such Beans in Wisconsin, which is a very cold State.—The vines begin to bloom and set quite early and continue until frost.—The pods are borne in great clusters of five to twelve.—We gathered them " the handful, and they shell so easily that to prepare them for cooking is v ery little trouble. —I shall never plant any other Bean for market or table use as long as I can get Burpee's Black Lima the South, where tne Butter Bean is so exten- sively raised for market, the Black Lima will prove a bonanza, and the Butter Bean must go.—It is the Lima for couking.—I never saw such Beans to grow and withstand the drought or cold May rains.—This new Black Lima is decidedly the best dark Bean ever put on the market.—I consider it specially adapted to Texas.—It came into use from t wo to three weeks before the regular Limas. The illustration shown on this page was accurately engraved from a photograph of part of a rope of pods; its like could be picked from almost any pole in our large crop at Ford hook. As will be seen, the beans are so full and plump that the ends are crowded square, and partly overlap each other. Price, per pkt. 10 cts.; 3 pkts. for 25 cts.; J pint 40 cts.; per pint 75 cts.; per quart $1.40, postpaid, by mail. By express, per pint 65 cts.; per quart $1.25. 21