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VEGETABLE SEED SPECIALTIES ■ ^ 



HENDERSON'S 

 EARLIEST 



Red Valentine Bean. 



AMERICA'S STANDARD GREEN- 

 PODDED DWARF SNAP BEAN. 



Ready for picking in 45 days from 

 planting. Yields prodigiously. Full, round, 

 meaty pods of unsurpassed tenderness 

 and quality. 



^^'HIS grand variety is a great improvement over 

 LL the original Red Valentine, which it has now 

 entirely supplanted, and is very much earlier; 

 often ready to pick in forty-five days from sowing. 

 The health}-, vigorous plants are usually hardy, 

 successfully withstanding early frosts; it may therefore 

 be planted very early. This, with its quick develop- 

 ment, makes it the earliest large-podded variety, and 

 on this account it is extensively grown by truckers 

 over wide sections of the country, though it is equally 

 desirable for home gardens. 



It will always yield a large crop of handsome, long, 

 round, fleshy pods, rich green in color and of unsur- 

 passed tenderness when gathered young, when it is 

 practically stringless. It is the Standard Snap Bean, 

 not only "for the earliest but for successive plantings, 

 bearing up to frost. (See cut.) Price, 10c. pkt., 

 20c. pt., 30c. qt., $1.50 pk., $5.00 bush. 



"/ prefer your Earliest Red Valentine Bush Bean to ayry other I 

 have ever used." MISS SALLIE THOMAS, 



2001 Terrace Place. Nashville, Tenn. 



" Your Valentine Snap Beans were a marvel for uniform maturity 

 and earliness; the best word in my vocabulary I am glad to say in their 

 favor." A. O'HOLLORAN, Lynchburg, Va. 



"Straws show which 

 way the wind blows." 



"It may interest you to 

 know tliat some Longfellow 

 Beans purchased from you 

 turned out magnificently, 

 surprising myself arid 

 friends with tlieir yield and 

 splendid quality." — D. A. 

 NISBITT, Nyack, N. Y. 



"Your Longfellow Bean 

 is the finest and most 

 factory bush bean 

 for private family use we 

 have ever had in over 

 thirty years of experi- 

 ence. We have no desire 

 to try for a belter." 

 Mrs. BEN J. P. RENCH, 

 Oberlin, Ohio. 



"Gen'l Brown's family 

 have discarded every 

 other bean; the only bea?i 

 they will have on the 

 table is Longfellow. 

 From four rows I have 

 been gathering daily for 

 three weeks in large quan- 

 tity, and the vines are 

 still bearing heavily. I 

 am glad to endorse it; it 

 is the best bean I have 

 grown in twenty years' 

 practice." 



A. M. McTOSH, 



Falmouth Foresidc, Me. 



THE ItOflGFEIiIiOW 



Green-Podded 



BUSH BEAfl. 



=AN EXTRA EARLY "QUALITY" SNAP BEAN.= 



I. una green 

 flavor. 



Remarkably early. Exceedingly prolific, 

 pods, always solid, tender, and delicious 



*^^HIS extra early variety, although comparatively new, 

 ^^ has been pretty widely distributed, and we have yet 

 to hear anything but praise about its fine quality 

 and other merits ; it is in fact an ideal snap bean, producing 

 a fine crop of round, straight, solid, fleshy pods 

 averaging 6i inches long, wonderfully tender and brit- 

 tle, without a trace of tough interlining, and having no 

 string when broken, excepting when the pods are quite old. 

 The flavor is most delicious, captivating the most critical, 

 while the delicate green color of the pods is retained 

 after cooking, adding to its attractiveness when served. 

 The plants are of robust, compact habit, unexcelled in 

 bearing qualities, maturing the crop very regularly. It 

 is extra early, the pods being fit to pick four days in 

 advance of any other variety of approximate size and 

 merit. (See cut.) Price, 10c. pkt., 20c. pt., 30c. qt., 

 $1.75 pk., $6.00 bush. 



THE LONGFELLOW BUSH BEAN. 



