PETER HENDERSON &CO., NEW YORK 



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OLD HOMESTEAD 0l% 1MPRQVED Kentucky wonder 



QREEN=PODDED SNAP POLE BEAN 



A marvel of Productiveness from July until frost. Large, thick, stringless 

 pods, meaty, tender and delicious. 



This best and most popular green-podded snap pole bean is a marvel of continued 

 productiveness and is ten days earlier than any other green pole bean. First pick- 

 ings may be made in this latitude early in July, and if the pods are gathered as they 

 become ready for "snaps, "the vine will continue to produce in great abundance 

 until killed by frost. 



The pods hang in great clusters from the top to the bottom of the vine and can be 

 gathered by the handful ; the pods are very large, 8 to 10 inches in length, entirely 

 stringless, plump, round and almost "solid meat," cooking meltingly tender and of 

 superb flavor. 



We have supplied Old Homestead Beans to customers in almost every State in the 

 Union, and those who report on them invariably do so in most flattering terms. (See 

 cut.) Price, 15c. pkt., 25c.pt., 40c. qt., $2.25 pk. 



"/ bought some of your 'Old Homestead' Beans last season. The pods were nearly one foot long and 

 very tender for succotash; for quality and productiveness it beats any pole bean I ever saw." 



J. G. VAN DEN BURG, Troy, N. Y. 



The Two Best Pole Limas Grown! 



Leviathan for Early. Ideal for Main Crop. 



HENDERSON'S EARLY LEVIATHAN 



— POLE LIMA BEAN. — 



ONE WEEK EARLIER THAN ANY!*. . . 

 TWO WEEKS EARLIER THAN MOST! 



Of Superior Quality. Immense Size. WonderfuSiy Productive. 



This delicious vegetable is denied many on account of the 

 length of season required to mature it, the early frosts com- 

 ing on as the crop is ready to pick. Leviathan is one week 

 earlier than any large Pole Lima yet offered and two weeks 

 earlier than most, consequently it will prove a boon to 

 thousands of growers. We cannot praise too highly the 

 splendid quality and enormous productiveness of this peer- 

 less variety. The pods grow in large clusters — we have 

 frequently seen from 5 to 10 in a cluster, — and they 

 are always well filled with the most delicious beans of 

 beautiful green color. Price, 15c. pkt., 25c. pt., 40c. 

 qt., $2.50 pk. 



" Your Leviathan Pole Lima Beans are par excellence in earliness, 

 size, flavor and productiveness, far ahead of any Limas I have ever 

 seen. Their qualities are all good." 



C H JONES, Galveston, Tex. 



H ENDERSON'S NEW POLE LIMA BEAN, JfJEAL. 



THE BEST MAIN CROP LIMA GROWN. 



Enormously Prolific. Beans of Gigantic Size. Quality, Tenderness and Flavor Superb. 



There have been several special types and selections of the favorite old large White 

 Lima put on the market, most of which have been improvements in one way or another. 

 Our Leviathan, offered above, is a notable example, among its excellent points being 

 that of earliness. Henderson's Ideal Lima is not extra early, but it matures a. 

 tremendous crop before frost in the vicinity of New York. The merits of this 

 variety are enormous size of pod and bean, productiveness and quality. It pro- 

 duces the largest Limas we have seen in our experience of over fifty years; 

 five to seven of these big, fat buttery beans are borne in pods averaging 

 two-thirds of a foot long ; these pods are produced in large clusters, those 

 at the bottom of the plant maturing early in the season, followed_ in 

 succession by the upper clusters, those at the top of the pole coming 

 in before frost. The plant is of rugged constitution, which carries 

 it through wet spells without injury. The superb quality, tender- 

 ness and rich flavor, combined with gigantic size of bean and 

 productiveness, render Henderson's IDEAL the peer of any Lima 

 grown for use either green or cured. (See cut.) Price 15c. 

 pkt., 25c. pt., 40c. qt.r$2.50 pk. 



"/ feel so proud of the Ideal Lima, that I want to thank you for my success. 

 I entered 40 pods with 5 and 6 beans to the pod at the New Jersey Horticultural 

 Show at Orange and received First Prize against six other Lima growers. 



FRED M. REINHARDT, Gardener to Mrs. F. Cummings, West Orange, N. J. 



For our complete list of Garden Beans {SnTiS'o.^umiisee pp. 49 and 50; Field Beans, p. 66. 



