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We are very glad to be able to offer Maule customers this out- 
standing bean, which we consider the best new variety since the 
introduction of Maule’s Butter Wax in 1906. Tender Pod is the 
ideal green-pod bush bean for the home garden, and we can 
recommend it without any reservations whatever. 
Tender Pod is one of the earliest varieties to produce pods of edible size, in season with 
Bountiful, and usually slightly ahead of Burpee’s Stringless Green-Pod. The pods are 
attractive, very dark, velvety green in color, straight to slightly curved, 4% to 5 in. 
long, round in cross section, smooth, with long and distinctly curved tips. 
Tender Pod produces more pods per plant than any other variety in the early group. 
It bears over a longer season than any other early variety; the vines remain green and 
growing when other early beans have withered. The plants are dwarf, vigorous, dark 
green, and may be planted closer in the row than other varieties. Seed of Tender Pod 
is a clear, shining white, with a small red dot on either side of the eye. It makes an 
excellent dried bean. 
But all these characteristics of Tender Pod merely support its superlative tenderness and 
flavor. Because of these qualities you’d grow it in your garden even if it had small pods, 
a light yield, and were the latest variety in the catalog. You'll be astonished to find 
that from the time the pods are large enough to use until they are yellow and aged with 
fully developed beans in them they are completely stringless and entirely without fiber. 
They're good at any time, and you don’t waste beans because the pods 
are too old to use. 
We feel that Tender Pod has a very promising future as a garden bean. 
For market the pods may be a trifle small; however, we are sure that it 
will in time become the standard of quality for a special trade that 
knows how good green beans can be. 
Try it for canning; the white seed allows the product to look its best. 
Use it young, old, or dried, Tender Pod is always. the samé—tops for 
quality. Ready to pick in about 48 days 
; Tender Pod 
Pkt. 15¢; 14 lb. 35¢; Ib. 65¢; 2 Ibs. $1.20; 5 Ibs. $2.75. 
Bush Bean 
RECEIVED AN ENTHUSIASTIC 
WELCOME IN 1941 
A regular flood of orders followed our introduc- 
tion of Rhubarb Chard last year, and we are in- 
cluding it again with the new vegetables because 
of the great public interest in it. The stalks are 
a brilliant, translucent crimson, with the vivid color following the veins 
right up into the dark green, crumpled leaves. This unusual coloring 
makes the chard look like rhubarb. 
The stalks of Rhubarb Chard are particularly delicious, and are used 
right along with the leaves when they are boiled for greens. Stalks are 
also cooked separately, dipped in batter, and fried to make fritters. 
Swiss Chard is extremely easy to grow, since it is not particular about 
the kind of soil or weather conditions. It goes on producing all sum- 
mer long, providing an abundant supply of greens at all stages of eA 
growth. : Rhubarb 
Rhubarb Chard plants grow 18 in. to 2 ft. tall and are by all odds the : aus 
most attractive vegetable plants in the garden. The stalks themselves \ oe 
extend 10 to 12 in. before the leaves begin, and are of the most spirited, 
glowing crimson you can imagine. Occasionally, the color on the inner 
side of the stalk is nearly orange. 
If you were not one of the many who tried Rhubarb Chard last year, 
join them this season in enjoying this colorful, flavorful new greens. 
In about 60 days from the time the seed is sown, you can begin to use 
Rhubarb Chard, as stalks will have attained a height of 15 to 18 in. 
Keep using the outer ones as they become ready and new ones will 
continue to appear until frost. 
50 seeds 15¢; 100 seeds 25¢; 200 seeds 45¢; 14 oz. $1.00. 
THIS IS THE 65TH ANNUAL SEED BOOK PUBLISHED BY WM. HENRY MAULE 3 

