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VEGETABJ-E SEED SPECIALTIES r% 



HENDERSON'S 

 ERRLIEST 



Hed Valentine Bean. 



AMERICA'S STANDARD GREEN- 

 PODDED DWARF SNAP BEAN. 



Fully 10 days earlier than the old popular 

 Valentine. Often ready for picking in 45 

 days from planting. Yields prodigiously. 

 Full, round, meaty pods of unsurpassed 

 tenderness and quality. 



■^^HIS grand variety is a great improvement over 

 ^X, 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 very early. 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. )z pt., 

 20c. pt., 30c. qt., $1.60 pk., $5.50 bush. 



"I bought half a pint of your Valentine Bush Bemis last spring, 

 and gathered 4M> bushels for market, besides about -5 pecks we used in 

 the family." — JOHN B. BLACKIE, Altoona, Pa. 



"Your Valentine Snap Beans were a marvel for uniform maturity 

 and earliness; the best word in my vocabulary I am glad to say in their 

 favor." A. O'HOLLORAN, Lynchburg, Va. 



" Straws show which 

 way the wind blows." 



"I never had the pleas- 

 ure of growing such beans 

 as your Longfellow; we 

 have discarded all oth- 

 ers."— H. E. MARQUA- 

 RAT, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



"Your Longfellow 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. BEN. J. P. RE A CH, 

 Oberlin, Ohio. 



"Gen'l Brown's family 

 have discarded every 

 other bean; the only brim 

 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 

 atill bearing hearily. I 

 am glad to endorse it; it 

 is the best bean 1 have 

 grown in twenty years' 



lee." 

 A. M. McTOSH, Fal- 

 mouth Foreside, Me. 



THE IiOJiGFEMiOW 



Green-Podded 



BUSH BEAU. 



AN. EXTHfl EflHLiV "QUfllilTY" SftAP BEA]Sl.= 



Remarkably early. Exceedingly prolific. Long* green 

 pods, always solid, tender, and of delicious flavor. 



'7T HIS extra early variety, although comparatively new, 

 i^ has been pretty widely distributed, and we have yet 

 to hear anything but praise about its fine quality 

 and other merits ; it is in fact an ideal snap 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, unexcelled in 

 bearing qualities, maturing the crop very regularly. It 

 is extra earl}-, 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. ^ 



THE LONGFELLOW BUSH BEAN. 



