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^^ Griswold's * Everbearing ^^ Wax * Bean 



Pkt., 15c.; 4pkts., 50c.; 10 pkts., Sl.OO. 



In this new Bean, which is ex- 

 clusively owned and controlled by 

 us and offered this season for the 

 first time, we believe we have the 

 7uOsi valuable dzvarf 7va.v variety 

 ever offered. It originated with 

 Thomas Griswold, the well-known 

 Connecticut seed grower. Our illus- 

 tration, made from nature, gives some 

 idea of its wonderful productiveness 

 and handsome, round, yellow pods, 

 which are thick, fleshy, entirely 

 striugless, growing six to seven 

 inches in length, and exceedingly 

 rich, buttery and fine flavored when 

 cooked. Their greatest value, how- 

 ever, is in their everbearing charac- 

 ter , beginning to bear earl)- and con- 

 tinuing to produce their magnificent 

 pods in great abundance throughout 

 the entire season, and long after all 

 other varieties are done. We count- 

 ed, this season, many single vines 

 with eighty to ninety pods ready for 

 picking, and a mass of blossoms on 

 the same vine at the same time. The 

 stalk is stiffer and branches out more 

 than any other bean, hence they 

 should never be planted less than ten 

 inches apart in the rows. The beans 

 are a fine kidney shape and verj- dis- 

 tinctly marked. 



The stock of seed, this season, 



'; . is so small, that we can onl}- ofi^er it 



in sealed packages. We are sure, 



however, all who try it will return 



for seed next season, when we hope 



4 pkts., 50c.; 10 pkts., fi.oo. 



to be able to offer it in quantity. Prices for 1890 : Pkt., 15c 



We distributed this new bean for trial among some of our customers last season, as New Wax Bean, 

 No. 50, and have received hundreds of letters similar to the following : 



Kentucky Wonder Watermelon. 



This new variety is the best red-seeded water- 

 melon we have ever grown. In shape it is oblong ; 

 skin dark green, marbled in stripes of light green ; 

 flesh a beautiful scarlet color, crisp, tender, rich 

 and sugary flavor, always firm, and never mealj-. 

 Attains an average weight of forty to sixt}- pounds. 

 Not a mammoth variety, but a real good, old- 

 fashioned Kentucky melon, that has few equals in 

 quality. Pkt., 5c. ;'oz., 15c.; X lb., 35c.; lb., $1.25. 



Horsford's Prelude Tomato. 



In our trials the past season we found this new 

 tomato to be a first-class early market varietj-, of 

 excellent flavor, and specially adapted for green- 

 house forcing. With a good soil it is also very 

 suitable for open-air culture for market gardening. 

 Pkt., IOC. ; oz., 35c.; X lb., |i.oo; lb., I.3.50. 



New Extra Early Refugee Bean . 



This entirely distinct new bush bean has all 

 the first-rate qualities of the well-known Refugee, 

 but will be ready for the market or table at least 

 ten days earlier. One of our most extensive market 

 gardeners near New York Citj-, says he has planted 

 it in the spring, gathered the ripe crop, and again 

 planted it in time for fall picking. It is an im- 

 mense yielder and sure to produce a crop in either 

 a wet or dry season. Pkt., loc; pint, 25c.; qt., 

 45c., post-paid. Peck, $1.25 ; bush., $4.50. 



EXCEEDS AXYTHING HE EVER SAW. 



James H. Fries, Cedar Grove, Va., Sept. 17, 1889, -nrites : 

 " Your Xew Dwarf SVax Bean, No. 50 (Griswold's Everbear- 

 ing) exceeds anything in the bean family I ever saw. It be- 

 gan to bear one week later than Wardwell's Kidney M'ax, and 

 continued bearing nice, young, tender beans, for table use, up 

 to the first day of September. I will plant no others in the 

 future, except Ward well's, for earliness. I never had seeds to 

 come up better than yours. Your Crown Jewel Potato is a 

 jewel indeed. It outj-ields any other variety. Atlantic Prize 

 Tomato is fine and far the earliest." 



BE.\TS EVEKTTHTNG IN BEAKING. 



M. SOMMER, Salomonia, Ind.. Oct. 16, 1889, writes : "The 

 New Wax Bean, No. 50 (Griswold's Everbearing) is the nicest 

 and best bean for green cooking I have ever seen ; it beats 

 everything for bearing. It does all you say; bears green, 

 half-ripe and ripe bear sand still in bloom. Your cabbage seed 

 did splendidly. I never had nicer cabbage than now. Dry as 

 the season has been, every stock has a nice, large head and as 

 solid as could be. The Lentz Beets are splendid ; they have 

 hardlyany top; are the quickest growing beet I ever raised. " 



THE BEST THAT GKOTVS. 



Charles W. Morse, White Hall, Pa., Aug. 12, 1889, 

 ^Frites : " I consider your No. 50 Wax Beans (Griswold's 

 Everbearing* the best that grow. They will bear over one 

 hundred bushels per acre. They are a lovely string bean, 

 and feel I cannot speak too highly of them. They ripen fine 

 string beans and blossom all at the same time." 



