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



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



Especially j-ecommended to Canners. It leads ail in Earliness, Enormous 



Productiveness, Handsome Appearance and Desirable Harket Qualities. 



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

 pride that X culled the attention of my customers to this remarkable bean, which impressed 

 me so favoraoly that I paid the originator a sum running into the thousands of dollars in 

 order 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 I was enabled to offer my friends a bean that for 

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

 stands v/ithout a competitor. The Davis Kidney Wax is undoubtedly the greatest bean ever of- 

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

 evei,and of true kidney shape; this is one chief qualification 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, uprigbt growth. The pods are long, straight, and of a handsome, clear, waxy white color, 

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

 which stage of growth they are absoUitely 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 gi-een from the leaves. Many of onr 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 merchantable pods to the 

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

 paiticularly 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. 



PHCKET, 10 eEWTS; PINT, 30 GEIVTS; QDHRT, 50 GENTS. 



If you want 

 the best gar- 

 den in your 

 neighborhood 

 in J 898 

 you 

 must 

 sow 

 Maule's 

 Seeds. 



ROGERS' LIMA WAX BEAN. 



A Novelty of Merit aud a Most Desirable 

 Acquisition as a Snap Bean. 



Messrs. Rogers Bros, are known throughout the seed 

 trade, as one of the largest and most successful growers 

 of peas and beans for seed purposes. I take pleasure in 

 offering my friends their I'atest introduction and great 

 novelty. I herewith quote from their remarks, which 

 I think will suffice in describing this new variety : 



"Named Lima Wax, as it has bright, glossy foliage, 

 and the bloom resembles the Dwarf Lima. The 

 pods are very broad and flat and a most excellent rich 

 qtiality. The plant is branching and vigorous, with an immense 

 amount of foliage, pods are borne in the greatest profusion, often 

 a single plant having 50 or more pods. When in bloom the plant is 

 completely covered with flowering spikes, and as the pods form in 

 clusters, they sink beneath the dense foliage, which shields 

 them from light showers, heavy dews and hot sun, which is a pro- 

 tection against their spotting or rusting and becoming soiled, as 

 compared with other sorts. They require thin planting (two beans be- 

 ing sutMcient for a hill) on very rich soil, and will run true and not 

 sport. Thepodsarethebroadest ofall wax bush beans, color transparent 

 glossy lemon wax, leaving the j'ellovv waxy appearance very soon after 

 the pods are formed. When picked will retain their bright, attractive 

 appearance for a long time and not become tough. Quality very ten- 

 der, j uicy and flavor delicate, delicious. Seed, small, oval, pure white. 



which is much in their favor compared with a colored bean. Having 

 wonderful productiveness, attractive appearance and keeping quali- 

 ties, it is likely to become a favorite for main crop with truckers. Ow- 

 ing to its tenderness, flue quality and delicious flavor it cannot help but 

 please those who want the best. Being white seeded, retaining nice, 

 rich color, and delicate, delicious flavor, when canned, it will be most 

 desirable for canners' use." 



PaeKET, 10 CENTS; PINT. 30 CENTS; QUHRT, 50 CENTS. 



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