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SEEDS. 



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BEANS, POLE OR RUNNING. <Strangenbohne.) 



If by mail add 15c per quart for postage. 

 This class is less hardy than the bush sorts and should not 

 be planted until one or two weeks later, when all danger of 

 late spring frosts is over. This applies more especially to the 

 Limas, which are the tenderest of all. Set the poles from 3 

 to feet apart, slightly raising the soil around them. Al- 

 low 4 or 5 beans to every hill, at this rate a quart of Limas 

 would plant about 100 hills, and sorts with smaller sized beans 

 about 200 hills. In planting the seeds the eye should be 

 placed downwards to allow the cotyledons to expand and rise 

 the more readily. The later ripening sorts should be pinched 

 b^ck when about 5 feet in height, in order to send the strength 

 f the plant into the pods. 



King of the Garden Lima. This is an improvement on 

 Large Lima, excelling it considerably in size and productive- 

 ness, and fully equaling 

 it in other respects. It is 

 of vigorous growth, re- 

 quiring but two vines to 

 each pole. When not too 

 closely planted they set 

 their beans early and pro- 

 duce continuous bloom 

 and fruitage until the end 

 of the season. Packet 10c 

 jfuart 35c, peck $2.50. 

 \/ Large Lima. The 

 " standard variety for a 

 general crop, both for a 

 shell or a dry bean ; beans 

 large and produced 

 abundantly until frost. 

 Packet 10c, quart 35c, 

 pe^k $2.50. 

 U^ietsey Extra Early 

 Lima. Claimed to be 

 very ejarly. In size a!T5 

 appearance it resembles 

 the Large Lima. Very 

 desirable to grow in sec- 

 tions where the seasons 

 are too short for ordinary 

 sorts. Packet 10c, quai 

 35;f!; peck $2.50. 

 / Dreer's improved 

 ^- Lima. The seed of this 

 variety is roundish in 

 form and smaller than 

 other sorts when 

 The green, bean, how 

 ever, is quite large, early 

 and productive, and of 

 good quality. Packet 

 quart 35c, peck $2.50 



Small White Lima, 

 Carolina or Sieva. Vines 

 vigorous but short, witli 

 many short braoches, so 

 that they are sometimes 

 grown without poles. 

 Very early and pro- 

 ductive. Packet 10c, 

 quart 30c. 



• ^Kentucky WondeE# 



Vines vigorous, climbing 

 well and very productive, 

 bearing its pods in large 

 clusters; pods green, 

 very long, often reaching 

 nine or ten inches, nearly 

 round when young, and 

 very crisp. A very pro- 

 lific sort, with very 

 showy pods. Pac 

 King of the Garden. quart 40c. 



Dreer's Golden Cluster. 



The pods are six to eight 

 inches long, ,of large size, 

 and are borne profusely in 

 large clusters of three to six. 

 Vines strong and healthy 

 and grow very rapidly, pods 

 of a beautiful golden yellow 

 color, and retain in a re- 

 markable degree their ten- 

 derness and plumpness. It 

 is a continuous bearer, and 

 in flavor is all that can be de- 

 sired. Packet 10c, quart 40c. 



|ii-.^Vhite Runner. Culti- 

 vated for its beauty; blos- 

 som% in large racemes. 

 Pac^t oc, pint 30c. 



4»^carlet Runner. Similar 

 to the last, but with scarlet 

 blossoms. Packet 5c, pint 

 3^. 



Lazy Wife. Has already 

 ^become a great favorite. 

 The pods grow from four to 

 six inches long, and are en- 

 tirely stringless, and of a 

 rich buttery flavor when 

 cooked. The pods remain 

 green and retain their ten- 

 der, rich, stringless flavor 

 until nearly ripe. The beans 

 are white, and are unsur- 

 passed as shell beans for 

 winter use. Packet 10c, 

 qi^rt 40c. 



hr Asparagus or Yard Long. 



Bears pods two feet in 

 length, and produced so 

 abundantly as to almost con- 

 ceal the foliage ; quality the 

 best. Packet 10c, quart 75c. 



uthern Prolific. Pods 

 green, round, very long and 

 fleshy, and produced in clus- 

 ters. An excellent snap 

 short, immensely produc- 

 tive and bearing until frost. Lazy Wife Pole Bean. 

 Packet 10c, quart 35c. 



Wax, Red Seed. Pods of a pale yellow color, six to 

 nine inches in length, and very thick and fleshy; exceedingly 

 productive and very fine in quality. Packet 10c, quart 35c. 



German Wax, Black Seed. Excellent as a snap or shelled 

 in the green state. Pods large and fleshy, and golden yellow- 

 in oelor; very productive. Packet 10c, quart 35c. 



/rlorticultural or Cranberry, Early and productive, used 

 as a shell bean either in the green or dried state. Beans 

 large, splashed and spotted with red; quality very good. 

 Packet 10c, quart 30c. 



•/J^utch Case=Knife. Used principally as a shell bean. 

 'Beans broad and kidney-shaped, and of very good quality ;^ 

 pods very long, green and flat. Packet 10c, quart 30c. 



•»Creaseback or Fat Horse. Known as a cornfield bean, 

 of which it is one of the best. It is very productive^ 

 valuable either as a green snap or for shelling. Packet 10c,. 

 quart 35c. 



ENGLISH DWARF "BEANS. (Grosse Bohnen.) 



Culture. Sow in drills two feet apart, as early in the 

 spring as the ground can be worked. (These are as hardj' as 

 Peas.) 



(road Windsor. The largest and best for main crop- 

 Packet 10c, quart 30c. 



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