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Early Valentine. The pods are fleshy, tender, succulent, 

 and remain on the vines in condition for table use longer than 

 those of most other varieties. Seeds speckled. 



Yellow Six Weeks. — Very early, with straight flat pods. 



Early Mohawk. A hardy, early sort, and of old-established 

 reputation. Color of seeds, a kind of drab, spotted with purple. 



Refugee. (Thousand-to-one.) — Somewhat later than the 

 preceding two, but very productive; pods tender; seed speckled. 

 Largely grown for pickling. 



Nonpareil Green Pod. — About the very last bean to 

 mature ; a wonderfully vigorous grower ; vines being always full 

 of numbers of long dark green pods. 



Best of All. A medium early, thritty and productive 

 variety. Pods are long, stringless and of good quality. 



The leading sorts grown in field culture as dry shelled beans 

 are White Marrowfat, Navy or Pea Bean, Prolific Tree 

 Bean, Red and White Kidney 

 Bean. The newly introduced 

 Burlingame Mediums is 

 claimed to be the earliest, 

 hardiest and most productive 

 field bean in America. The 

 wax sorts, with their tender, 

 delicate yellowish pods, are 

 especially suited for culture in 

 the home garden. The list of 

 varieties has been swelled very 

 largely by recent introductions. 



We may choose among a large ^^^^^^,^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ 



number and hardly make a miss. 



Black "Wax is one of the older standard sorts, with tender, 

 waxy, yellow pods. Seed black. 



White Wax differs from the preceding chiefly in color of 

 the seed, which is white. 



Yosemite. — No other dwarf bush bean approaches Yosemite 

 in size; the pods being often eight to ten inches long, and as thick as 

 a man's finger. The pods are nearly all solid meat, and stringless, 

 always cooking tender and delicious. It is enormously prolific. 



New Prolific German \Vax. — A decided improvement on 

 the old German Butter Wax, and more than twice as prolific. 

 The very handsome, golden yellow pods, entirely stringless, are 

 borne in immense quantities on every plant. 



Golden Wax, one of the newer introductions, is early, 

 prolific, and altogether reliable both for market and home use. 



Maule's Butter Wax. — A very early wax bean of superior 

 quality ; full of solid meat, as a pithy or hollow pod can seldom 

 be found 



