66 . 
Straws show which 
way the wind blows.’” 
“T never had the pleas- 
ure ofgrowing such beans 
as your Longfellow; we 
have discarded all oth- 
ers.” H.E,.MARQUARAT, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 
“ Your Longtellow Bean 
is the finest and most 
Satisfactory bush bean 
for private family use we 
have ever had in over 
thirty years of experi- 
ence. We have no desire 
to try for a better.”’ 
Mrs. BENJ. P. REACH, 
Oberlin, Ohio. 
““Gen’1 Brown's family 
have discarded’ every 
other bean; the only bean 
they will have on the 
table is Longfellow. 
From four rows I have 
been gathering daily for 
three weeks in large quan- 
tity, and the vines are: 
still bearing heavily. I 
am glad to endorse it; it 
is the best bean I have 
grown in twenty years’ 
practice.” 
A. M. McTOSH, Fal- 
mouth Foreside, Me. 
anderson’ Earliest Red Valentine Beall. 
America’s Standard Green-Podded Dwari Snap Bean. 
Fully 10 days earlier than the old popular Valentine. 
Oftem ready for picking in 45 days from planting. 
Yields prodigiously we .% J Full, round, 
meaty pods of unsurpassed tenderness and quality. 
~ fers 
HIS grand variety is a great improvement over 
the original Red Valentine, which it has now 
entirely supplanted, being fully ten days earlier; 
often ready to pick in forty-five days from sowing. 
The healthy, vigorous plants are unusually hardy, 
withstanding frosts that kill other varieties; it may 
therefore be planted veryearly. This, with its quick 
development, makes it the earliest large-podded va- 
riety, and on this account it is extensively grown by 
truckers over wide sections of the country, though it is 
equally desirable for home gardens. 
It is a big yielder of handsome, long, round, fleshy 
pods, rich green in color and of unsurpassed tender- 
ness and quality when gathered young, when it is 
practically stringless. It is the Standard Snap 
Bean, not only for the earliest but for successive 
plantings, bearing up to frost. (See cut.) Price, 10c. 
% pt., 20c. pt., 30c. qt., $1.50 pk., $4.50 bush. 
“7 bought halfa pint of your Valentine Bush Beans last spring, 
i A ; and gathered 4% bushels for market, besides about 5 pecks we ‘used 
HENDERSON’S eeGipuiin in the family.”—JOHN B. BLACKIE, Altoona, Pa. 
EARLIEST RED VALENTINE. oe E “Earliest Red Valentine Bean is an excellent cropper; it has a strong 
F = 7 sree constitution, hence not subject to the rust that spoils the appear- 
ere 5 ance of many other beans.”’-—AMERICAN GARDENING. 
THe LONGIGIIOW ) Busi Beall. “equality Snap. Bean. 
Remarkably early. Exceedingly prolific. Long green pods, always solid, tender, and of delicious flavor. 
HIS extra early variety, although comparatively new, 
has been pretty widely distributed, and we have yet 
to hear anything but praise about its fine quality 
and other merits; it isin fact an idealsnap bean, a prolific 
producer of perfectly round, straight, solid, fleshy pods 
averaging 6% inches long, wonderfully tender and _brit- 
tle, without a trace of tough interlining, and having no 
string when broken, excepting when the pods are quite 
old. The flavor is most delicious, captivating the most 
critical, while the delicate green color of the pods is re- 
tained after cooking, adding to its attraction when served. 
The plants are of robust, compact habit, unexcellied in 
bearing qualities, maturing the cropvery regularly. It 
is extra early, the pods being fit to pick four days in 
advance of any other variety of approximate size and 
merit. (See cut.) Price, 10c. pkt., 20c. pt., 35c. qt., 
$2.00 pk., $7.00 bush. 
LONGFELLOW BUSH BEAN. 
