10 — Vegetable Seeds 



THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1917 



POLE OR GLIMBIIVG BEA]>fS 



CtJLTUEE. — A warm, sandy loam, enriched with well-rotted stable or poultry manure is best. Beans must not be sown until the ground 

 warm and dry. Plant 6 to 10 beans to a pole, 1 inch deep; when well started, thin to 4 plants. Use 1 quart to 200 hills; 10 to 16 quarts to the acre. 



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McCASLAN POLE BEAN, 



IMPROVED 



KENTUCKY WONDER 



POLE BEAN. 



LAZY WIVES POLE BEAN, 



41 McCaslan Pole Bean 



The White Seeded Green Pod Snap or Shell Bean 



A pole bean that Is becoming very popular in the South. Does equally as well In the North. 

 Produces large, quick growing vines which soon cover the poles, bearing a very heavy crop of 

 handsome green pods about 8 inches in length; are very meaty, stringless and of delicious flavor. 

 The vines produce their pods very early and continue to bear immense quanities of snap pods 

 throughout the season. The dry beans being white and of good size when allowed to ripen on the 

 vines make an excellent soup or bake bean for winter use. 



Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 35 cts.; quart, 63 cts., postpaid. By express or &elgbt, not pre- 

 paid, quart, 50 cts.; 4: quarts, $1.75; peck, $3.!23. 



45 Lazy Wives Pole Bean 



The green pods are wonderfully broad, thick, fleshy and above all, stringless. They retain their 

 rich, stringless and tender qualities until they are ripe. The pods are from 5 to 6 inches long, 

 exceedingly rich and fine flavored. Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 40 cts.; quart, 75 cts., postpaid. By- 

 express or frelgbt, not prepaid, quart, 60 cts.; 4 quarts, $2.25; peck, $4.00. 



43 Improved Kentucky Wonder or Old Homestead Pole Bean 



Very early and enormously productive, the long, green pods hanging in clusters on the poles. 

 They are stringless and cook tender. Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 35 cts.; quart, 60 cts., postpaid. 

 By express or freight, not prepaid, quart, 45 cts.; 4 quarts, $1.60; peck, $3.00; bus., $11.00. 



44 French Asparagus Pole Bean 



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A gardener who has grown all sorts of beans tells us that this excellent sort Isthe most delicious 

 green podded snap pole bean. The vines are rampant growers producing an enormous crop of 

 tender and palatable snap pods which average In length from 2 to 4 feet. On our trial grounds at 

 Newfleld, N. J., we have had specimen pods which reached the enormous length of 4 feet. Very 

 productive and one of the best. Packet, 15 cents; a packets, 85 cents, postpaid. 



FRENCH ASPARAGUS POLE BEAN. 



