New Davis Kidney Wax Bean.f 



The greatest addition to our list of Wax Beans in many years, and is bound to be 



the most popular variety in cultivation. The bean for the flarket Gardener. 



Especially recommended to Canners. It leads all in Earliness, Enormous 



Productiveness, Handsome Appearance and Desirable flarket Qualities. 



N INTROOUeiNG this greatest of all Wax Beans, I remarked that it was with special 

 pride that I called the attention of my customers to this remarkable bean, which impressed 

 me so favorably that I paid the originator a sum running into i he thousands of dollars in 

 Older to have my name identified with its introduction. All will admit this was a large amount 

 to give for a single variety; but at the same time 1 was enabled to offer my friends a bean that for 

 earliness, productiveness, desirable shape, superior quality, and handsome, waxy white color, 

 stands without a competitor. The Davis Kidney Wax is undoubtedly the greatest bean ever of- 

 fered. It is new and distinct in the fact that the seed is pure white, with absolutely no eye what- 

 ever, and of true kidney shape; this is one chief qualiflcation that alone should recommend it to 

 canners, as well as make it desirable for use as a shelled bean. The plant is vigorous, and of com- 

 pact, upright growth. The pods are long, straight, and of a handsome, clear, waxy white color, 

 often growing to a length of seven or eight inches. They should be picked when quite young, in 

 which stage of growth they are absolute! J' the finest flavored wax bean known to-day; but if al- 

 lowed to remain on the plant too long they are naturally liable to become stringy. Absolutely 

 rust-proof, being held well up from the ground, standing considerably higher than the Golden 

 Wax. Always full of plump beans, it being impossible to find a windy pod. In point of pro- 

 ductiveness it leads all others, the vines are positively one mass of pods, and a field at a distance 

 shows more yellow in color from the pods than it does green from the leaves. Many of our large 

 cropping sorts produce a great deal of waste or second quality pods, but the Davis Kidney Wax 

 makes little or no waste at all, and will grow a third more bushels of nrerchantable pods to the 

 acre than any variety of wax beans in cultivation. There is no bean I can so highly recommend, 

 particularly to market gardeners and canners; while for the home garden it is equally as desir- 

 able. One of its special features of superiority over other sorts, is its extreme hardiness and 

 shipping qualities. Canners, even now, are using the old White Wax, which is one of the most 

 unprofitable sorts to grow, but they use It simply on account of the color of its seed. The 

 Davis Kidney Wax overcomes this difficulty entirely, the seed being pure white and of true kidney 

 shape; it is just the bean canners have long been looking for. 



PagKET, 10 eENTSs PINT, 30 SENTS; QPaRT, 50 BENTS. 



3 Bush ♦ Lima ♦ Beans. 



BURPEE'S BUSH LIMA. 



"Burpee's Bush Lima Beans grow 18 to 20 

 j inches high, of stout growth and ah^ays 

 j elect, yet branching so vigorously that 

 ?ich plant develops into a magnificent cir- 

 : ular bush, from 2 to 3 feet in diame- 

 ter. The thickness of the main stalk 

 and branches of the plant, as also the 

 unusual size, healthy green color and 

 thick, leathery substance of the 

 leaves, indicite the strong constitu- 

 tion of this variety, by which it is en- 

 abled to bear large crops, and is also 

 a sure cropper. It is an immense 

 yielder, each bush bearing from fifty 

 to two hundred handsome large pods, well filled with very large beans, which are 

 identical in size and luscious flavor to the well known large pole Limas." 

 Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 30 cts.; cjuart, 50 cts. 



HENDERSON'S BUSH LIMA. 



At least two weeks earlier than any of the climbing sorts, and the earliest of 

 the Bush Limas, requiring no support of any kind. It produces a crop from the 

 time it comes into bearing until frost, and being enormously productive, a 

 very small patch will keep a family supplied throughout the entire season. To 

 give some idea of its productiveness would say, in competition for the S150 cash 

 prize offered in my 1888 catalogue, a plant containing the enormous quantity of 

 32:? well developed pods won the prize. The size of the dry bean will hinder 

 Henderson's Bush Lima from being popular with market gardeners; but for 

 private gardeners it will prove most satisfactory, its habit of growth, delicious 

 flavor and great productiveness recommending it. Pkt., 10c. ; pt., 30c.; qt., 50c. 



THORBURN'S OR DREER'S BUSH LIMA 



This bean, first offtered by Thorburn & Co., is a dw.orf form of Dreer's Pole 

 Liina. Its habit is remarkably fixed, as it shows little inclination to run to 

 vine. Grows 12 to 18 inches high, and possesses the delicious flavor character- 

 istic of the Dreer's Lima; withal is very productive, pods being short and very 

 thick. Packet, 10 cents; pint, 30 cents; quart, 50 cents. 



^^Whv Nnt TPfV ^" three of these beans? One packet of 

 WW TY iiy i^^i, I I y ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ three BUSH LIMA BEANS, 



25 cts.; one pint of each, 75 cts. 



one qt. of each, $1.25, postpaid. 

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BURPEES' BUSH LIMA BEAN 



