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| Keywords: Everything for the garden (15770794633).jpg 16 <br> EVERYTHING FOR TIE GARPEM - Vegetable Seeds <br> THE <br> TWO <br> BEST <br> Pole Lima <br> BEANS <br> GROWN <br> Henderson s Leviathan <br> THE EARLIEST POLE LIMA GROWN <br> ABUNDANTLY PKOLIFIC - - - DELICIOUS BUTTERY FLAVOR <br> Notwithstanding the popularity of the Bush Lima Beans there are still <br> many growers who prefer the pole varieties These are as a class later <br> than the bush sorts and consequently in some localities there is a difficulty <br> in maturing the crop In Northern States or where by reason of con- <br> tinued cool nights the growth is less rapid Leviathan will be found ad <br> mirably adapted <br> The plant is strong and takes to the poles more readily than any other <br> sort It is fully a week earlier than <br> any other pole variety therefore <br> can be grown successfully where <br> other sorts would be caught <br> by frosts of early autumn <br> Moreover it is a prodigious <br> cropper producing its pods <br> in large clusters from base <br> to top of pole frequently from 5 <br> to 10 together These are well-filled <br> with large fleshy Beans of excellent <br> quality delicate pale green in color <br> and possessing in a superlative de- <br> gree that rich buttery flavor so <br> highly esteemed by all See cut <br> Price 10c pkt 25c pt 40c qt <br> 1 40 for 4 qts 2 50 pk <br> All the seeds you have sent me have come <br> up with the usual astonishing rapidity <br> the Early Leviathan Pole Lima Bean <br> beating- the record They were sown a <br> week ago last Saturday and the following <br> Thursday were above ground <br> Mrs LOUISE C WALKER <br> Eden Valley N Y <br> I am more enthusiastic than ever about your Early <br> Pole Lima Bean It has proven a bonanza to the northt <br> t <br> Leviathan <br> northern planter <br> where the Lima season is short as its earliness and unusual produc- <br> tiveness assure a sure crop <br> W E VAIL Yorktown Heights N Y 1 <br> Your Early Leviathan Pole Lima has done better than any of <br> three other varieties grown by me; the season has been cold and <br> but the Leviathan Limas have given us great satisfaction <br> I L POWELL Gardener to Samuel Thome Esq <br> Millbrook N Y <br> I thought you might like to hear of my continued success with your Leviathan Lima <br> Bean It is simply grand I have planted other varieties but so far have found none <br> equal to yours EDWARD HOLLESTER Avondale Ave St Louis Mo <br> I have raised your Leviathan Lima Beans this season and can hardly word my praise <br> for them The Beans were fit for the table by the middle of August and were very fine <br> and productive Mrs E H J GRAVES Ausable Forks N Y <br> Henderson's IaVT Ideal <br> THE BEST MAIN CROP LIMA GROWN-ENORMOUSLY PROLIFIC <br> OF GIGANTIC SIZE TENDERNESS AND FLAVOR SUPERB <br> This is another sterling variety of our own introduction which attains an enormous size with a degree of <br> productiveness which is extremely rare The pods are amazingly large and are borne in great clusters <br> There is great satisfaction in producing such large pods yet under ordinary conditions any one can do <br> so by planting Henderson's Ideal <br> The vine does not differ materially from that of the ordinary pole varieties Its chief distinction lies <br> in the size of the pods which hang in wonderful profusion on the vines <br> Not only are the pods singularly large but -the average yield is greater than in any other variety <br> which taken in conjunction with the great size of the individual Beans gives a net crop of really <br> remarkable proportions <br> Though a little later than our Early Leviathan it is just as early as the ordinary pole varieties <br> and continues to produce enormous crops of 'the best-flavored Beans right up to frost See <br> cut Price 10c pkt 25c pt 45c qt 1 50 for 4 qts 2 75 pk <br> I feel so proud of the Ideal Lima that I want to thank you for my success I entered 40 pods with five and <br> six Beans to the pod at the New Jersey Horticultural Show at Orange and received First Prize against six other <br> Lima growers FRED M REINHARDT Gardener to Mrs F Cummings W Orange N J <br> I wish to inform you of the results obtained from the Henderson Ideal Pole Lima Beans purchased from you <br> last season For some years I have made a specialty of Lima Beans and have purchased everything new offered <br> by the different seedsmen I have never found among any of them anything to compare with the Ideal for size <br> yield ana quality F S WHITE St Louis Mo <br> \ <br> We deliver Free in U S <br> by Parcel Post Express <br> or Freight at our option ' <br> Vegetable and Flower Seeds by ' he pkt '- Also Lawn Grass Seeds <br> I and quarter lb 43874808 149634 78295 Page 16 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/43874808 c1915 10 5962/bhl title 78295 Henry G Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection ; Peter Henderson Co NameFound Limas NameConfirmed Limas NameBankID 4220815 Biodiversity Heritage Library Everything for the garden 1915 Garden Stories Books Bulbs Plants Catalogs Equipment and supplies Flowers Gardening Lawn mowers Seeds U S Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library bhl page 43874808 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/43874808 bhlGardenStories BHLinbloom bulbs plants u s department of agriculture national agricultural library bhlgardenstories bhlinbloom Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2015-01-28 Check categories 2015 August 25 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/15770794633 2015-08-25 03 01 53 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Everything for the garden 1915 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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