Beckerf s Superior Vegetable Seeds 



FOR HOME AND MARKET-GARDENS 



Seeds of Superior Quality and Strong Vitality 



Our Vegetable Seed Department embraces nearly all 

 varieties that are desirable or of known value, together with all 

 the more important recent introductions. The list has been care- 

 fully selected and prepared, and the descriptions given are chiefly 

 derived from our own experience and observations. We have 

 endeavored to make them as accurate and helpful to the pur- 

 chaser in making selections as possible. 



HOW SEEDS ARE SENT 



ADD POSTAGE at the rate of 8 cents per pint and ISpents 

 per quart to the Catalogue price for Peas and Beans when* 'to be 

 sent by mail. For Sugar Corn, add 5 cents per pint and 10 cents 

 per quart when to be sent by mail. 



FREE DELIVERY to any post-office in the United States at 

 the prices named in this Catalogue of all Vegetable Seeds that are 

 sold by the PACKET, OUNCE and QUARTER-POUND. 



^ BEANS 



Beans should not be planted before the ground becomes light and 

 warm, in favorable seasons usually about the first of May. The soil 

 should be rich and mellow, and the seeds scattered about 3 inches apart 

 in drills that are 2to :'% feet apart, and covered about 2 inches deep. 

 Successive sowings, made at intervals of about two weeks until the 

 middle of July, will give a plentiful supply of beans throughout the 

 season. One quart of seed will sow 100 feet of drill. 



Add 8 cents postage for one pint of seed, and 15 cents for one quart, 

 when to be sent by mail ; 10-cent packets free by mail 



Pole, or Running Beans (©tangert 33of)nm) 



Less hardy than the Bush Beans, and should be planted several 

 weeks later; when the ground is warmer. Plant the seeds in slightly 

 raised hills 3 or 4 feet apart, four or five seeds to a hill. The Limas 

 are especially tender, and the rule for late outside planting with them 

 is rigid. Painstaking cultivators, who are usually the most successful, 

 plant them eye downward, after setting stout poles for every hill. All 

 sorts of late-ripening Pole Beans are benefited by pinching the tips of 

 the vines back when they are about 5 feet high. A quart of Limas will 

 plant about 100 hills; a quart of smaller sorts about 200. 



/Kir 



POLE LIMA BEANS 



(All Best Grade Hand-Picked) 



"KING OF THE GARDEN. When not too closely planted, the 

 vines set beans early and bear continuously until frost; only two vines 

 should be allowed to a hill. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 15c, qt. 30c, %pk. $1.10. 

 .• EARLY LEVIATHAN. This new variety is not only earlier than 

 any other, but the beans are of the largest size and unsurpassed in 

 quality. Pkt. 10 cts , pt. 15 cts., qt. 30 cts., Kpk. $1.10. 



SIEBERT'S EARLY LIMA. Pods and beans quite large, very 

 early and productive, quality the best. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 15 cts., qt. 30 

 cts., Kpk. $1.10. 



SHOTWELL. Of the potato Lima class, and superior to Dreer's 

 'Lima in earliness, size and quality. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 15 cts., qt. 30 cts., 

 %pk. $1 10. 



EDIBLE-PODDED POLE BEANS 



\ DREER'S GOLDEN CLUSTER WAX. Pods long and round, 

 In clusters of three to six; very productive. Pkt 10 cts., pt. 18 cts., 

 qt. 35 cts., %pk. $1.30. 



KENTUCKY WONDER, or OLD HOMESTEAD. Pods borne 

 in clusters, deep green in color; round, and often 9 inches in length; 

 tender, crisp and finest quality. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 18 cts., qt. 35 cts., 

 Kpk. $1.30. 



ROUND POD KIDNEY WAX BEANS (See page 2) 



i/'LAZY WIFE. Very productive; pods green, 4 to 6 inches long, 

 broad, thick, fleshy and entirely stringless; rich, and tender. Pkt. 

 10 cts., pt. 15 cts., qt. 30 cts., %pk. $1.10. 



\ y WHITE CREASED ACK, or BEST OF ALL. Very pro 

 ductive, bearing in clusters; pods silvery green, medium size, best 

 quality. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 13 cts., qt. 25 cts., Kpk. 90 cts. 



HORTICULTURAL CARMINE-PODDED. Bears profu- 

 sion of large fleshy, golden yellow pods with carmine flakes and 

 stripes; one of the best and finest flavored shell beans. Pkt. 10 

 cts., pt. 15 cts., qt. 30 cts., Kpk. $1.10. 



Dwarf, or Bush Beans »°^») 

 BUSH LIMAS 



Fine Crops of delicious Limas are now grown without poles 

 For Beans sent by mail, add postage at the rate of 8 cts. per pint 

 and 15 cts. per quart. 10-cent packets sent postpaid 



WONDER BUSH LIMA. An improvement on Burpee's Bush 

 Lima, being earlier, larger and more productive; quality unex- 

 celled. The plants grow dwarf, upright and compact, and are com- 

 pletely covered with large pods, many of which contain four beans. 

 Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 15 cts., qt. 30 cts., %pk. $1.10. 



