98 Rk. & J. FARQUHAR &.COlS SEED CATALOGUE. . 
VEGETABLE 
NOVELTIES and SPECIALTIES, 1895. 
SEE ALSO GENERAL LIST, PAGE 3. 
SATISFACTION MUSK MELON. 
KEENEY’S RUSTLESS GOLDEN WAX BEAN. 
Combines productiveness with fine quality. A strong-growing bush variety of remarkable vigor and free 
from rust. It sends out short tendrils, oa which pods are formed in addition to those near the central stalk. 
Pods, under favorable conditions, numbering 40 to 50 on a single plant. 
The packets contain an ounce of beans, beg 60 to 75 in number, and if planted one bean in a place, 10 
inches apart in the row and the rows 24:to 28 inches apart, they will produce, under favorable conditions, a boun- 
tiful supply for a small family. 
The pods are meaty and well filled, thick-flat when young, and semi-round later; of rich yellow color and 
fine quality, and stringless, even when large enough to shell. If the pods are picked as fast as formed, the 
plant continues to furnish a bountiful supply for an unusually long season. Packet, .15; 2 packets for .25. 
THORBURN’S VALENTINE WAX BEAN. 
The earliest and most productive wax-podded dwarf bean. The pods are meaty with so little string that 
they may,justly be called stringless. /It is of best quality, and for early snap-beans has no equal; remarkably 
free from rust and the peds remaiya long time without becoming tough. Packet, .15. 
PROLIFIC MARKET BEAN. 
Dwarf; very vigorous and healthy grower, the pods being borne in thick clusters as many as 35 to 40 ona 
plant’ P = green, long, perfectly round and very solid. Unsurpassed for solidity and fine pe ae hava 403 
packet, I 
V SATISFACTION MUSK MELON. 
This splendid, new and distinct Musk Melon is the result of several years’ selection by a leading gardener 
near Boston. It is a most superior yellow-fleshed variety with green outside; very early, large and beautiful form. 
It is of very superior flavor and specimens sent us had delicious, melting flesh between two and three inches thick, 
leaving only a smallseed apace: Its productiveness and other admirable qualities cannot be spoken of too highly. 
Ounce, .50; liberal packet, «1 
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