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VEGETABLE SEED SPECIALTIES 



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Henderson's Early Leviathan Pole Lima. 



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Early Leviathan 

 Pole Lima Bean 



One weeK earlier than any other Pole 

 Lima, and two weehs earlier than 

 most! Of superior quality. Im- 

 mense size. 'Wonderfully produc- 

 tive 



With this sort we reach the ideal Pole 

 Lima. This delicious vegetable is denied 

 many would-be growers on account of the 

 length of season required to mature it, 

 the early frost coming on just as the crop 

 is ready to pick. This sort is at least one 

 week earlier than any large Pole Lima yet 

 offered and fully two weeks earlier than 

 most, consequently it will prove a boon to 

 thousands of growers. Earliness is often 

 obtained at the sacrifice of other valuable 

 features, but in this variety we claim su- 

 periority, not only in this respect, but in 

 size of bean and pod and enormous pro- 

 ductiveness. It is in fact about perfect 

 and of incalculable value. (Sec cut.) 

 Price, 15c. i pt., 25c. pt., 40c. qt., $2.50 pk., 

 $9.00 bush. 



Your 'Leviathan' is par excellence in earliness, size, 

 flavor and productiveness ; far ahead of any pole lima 

 I have ever seen." C. H.JONES, Galveston, Texas. 



• 'I am very much pleased with your 'Leviathan Early 

 Lima Bean,' being early and grand for table use. I 

 planted them May 12lh, and they were coming up 

 May 16th, and grew so rapidly that I had to hustle to 

 keep them tied up. First picking for the tabic July 

 S6th, we are still picking (September 17th), and young 

 beans still forming." E. HOLLISTER, Wellston, Mo. 



"Your 'Early Leviathan Lima Bean' has done bet- 

 ter than any of three standard varieties; the season has 

 been wet and cold but they have, given us great satisfac- 

 tion." I. L. POWELL, 



Gardener to Sam'l Thorn, Esq., Millbrook, N. Y. 



"Last spring I procured ivhat was claimed to be early 

 strains of Pole Lima Beans from four seed houses and 

 tested them along with your 'Early Leviathan'; yours 

 gave fine large beans for the table a week earlier than 

 the 'Jersey Extra Early,' and 10 days earlier than any 

 other large White Pole Lima. As a general thing, Ihr 

 large White Limas will not ripen in this cold climate; 

 with 'Leviathan' there will be no trouble. I can but 

 congratulate you on its introduction." 



EDWARD L.COY. Melrose, Mass. 



Improved lYentvicKy ArVonder" 



Green Podded "Snap" 



Pole Bean. 



.A. marvel of Productiveness from July 

 until frost- Large, tHicK, stringless 

 pods, meaty, tender and delicious. 



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This best and most popular green-podded 

 "snap " pole bean is a marvel of continued 

 productiveness and ten days earlier than 

 any other green pole bean. First pickings 

 may be made in this latitude early in 

 July, and if the pods are gathered as they 

 become ready for "snaps," the vine will 

 continue to produce in unexampled abun- 

 dance until killed by frost. 



The pods hang in great clusters from the 

 top to the bottom of the vine and can be 

 gathered by the handfuls ; the pods are 

 very large, 8 to 10 inches in length, entirely 

 stringless, plump, round and almost "solid 

 meat," cooking meltingly tender and of 

 superb flavor. 



We have supplied "Old Homstead" 

 Beans to customers in almost every State 

 in the Union, and those who report on them 

 invariably do so in most flattering terms. 

 (See cut.) Price, 15c. \ pt., 25c.pt., 40c. 

 qt., $2.25 pk., $8.00 bush. 



"The 'Old Homestead' just simply beats anything 

 in the nay of pole beans I ever saw, both for productive- 

 ness ntiil quality — many of the pods being a foot la 

 length and as tender and delicately flavored as it is 

 possible for a bean to be. I had the first on the 8th of 

 June, which was ahead of any one else in this section." 

 THOMAS P. JONES, Griffln, Ga. 



"I have been using your seeds for years and am 

 highly pleased with them, especially your 'Old Home- 

 stead Beans.' I picked my first of these July 16th, 

 anil from that lime on until frost the vines hung so full 

 that one could pull off great handfuls at a lime. All 

 who saw them say they bint anything they ever saw." 



JOS. M. SCOTT, New Alexandria, Ohio. 



"I would like to say a word of praise about your 

 'Old Homestead Bean.' I ordered only a small quan- 

 titu of them just from curiosity and I can assure you 

 that our curiosity was satisfied. Such beans! — they 

 came into bearing just after our first planting of string 

 beans had passed and we used Old Homestead' from 

 those few h'lls from that time until frost killed the 

 vines. Their quality, as well as quantity, was all that 

 could be desired." Mrs. E. S. BOOT, 



39 King Street, Westfield, Mass. 



A new climbing wax bean of robust growth ; an early and prolific 

 yielder of large, fleshy, stringless pods of a handsome golden 

 color, mottled with carmine; unsurpassed both as a "snap" and shell bean. Price, 15c. * pt., 30c. pt., 50c. qt., $3.00 pk. 



GOLDEN CARMINE=P0DDED POLE BEAN. 



