2 Wm. C. Beckert's Choice List of Vegetable Seeds, Allegheny, P; 



PEAS, continued 



EXTRA-EARLY TELEPHONE.* 56 days; 2H feet. Combines earliness with 

 tlie size and quality of the best of the later sorts. The pods are of the same size and 

 quality as the Telephone, and are ready to pick one week after the earliest. Pkt. 10 cts., 

 pt. 20 cts., qt. 40 cts., Hpk. S1.50. 



THOS. LAXTON. 60 days. Pods large, long and deep green in color ; seed 

 wrinkled, sweet and of fine flavor. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 20 cts., qt. 40 cts., 'Apk. $1.50. 



PREMIUM GEM.*' 59 days ; 15 inches. Early and superior wrinkled Pea ; pods 

 abundant; peas tender, sweet and good. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 15 cts., qt. 30 cts., Hpk. $1.10. 



HORSFORD'S MARKET-GARDEN.* 70 days ; 2 feet. Very productive ; best 

 quality. Considered one of the most valuable varieties.' Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 10 cts., qt. 20 cts., 

 hpk. 75 cts. 



DWARF TELEPHONE, or DAISY.* 70 days ; i Vz feet. Pods large, handsome, 

 well filled, often containing 10 peas of the largest size; tender and delicious. Very pro- 

 ductive. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 18 cts., qt. 35 cts., ^pk. $1.30. 



TELEGRAPH. 67 days; 3K feet. Resembles Telephone, except that the peas are 

 deeper green and the vines more productive. Pods large and showy. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 

 15 cts., qt. 30 cts., Jipk. $1.10. 



TELEPHONE.® 71 days; 3% feet. Pods and peas very large and showy, the latter 

 being verj' sweet and rich; very productive. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 15 cts., qt. 30c., Kpk. |i.io. 



DUKE OF ALBANY.* 74 days ; 3 feet. Pods large and produced in great abun- 

 dance. Resembles Telephone, but is more dwarf. First among the large-podded late 

 sorts. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 15 cts., qt. 30 cts., Hpk. $1.10. 



CHAMPION OF ENGLAND.* 78 days; 4 feet. \'ery fine quality. Pkt. 10 cts., 

 pt. 10 cts., qt. 20 cts., Izpk. 70 cts. 



ADMIRAL DEWEY. So days; 3 K feet. A heavy cropper and of the finest qualitv. 

 Pods of the largest size. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 18 cts., qt. 35 cts., J4pk. S1.30. 



PRIDE OF THE MARKET. 80 days ; 2K to 3 feet. Handsome large, dark green 

 pods, well filled with large peas of the finest quality. Pkt. loc, pt. i8c., qt. 35c., 5^pk.li.30. 



SENATOR. 3 feet. An immense cropper of medium late maturity ; pods very large, 

 round and well filled; quality unsurpassed. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 25 cts., qt' 45 cts. 



ALDERMAN. 3 feet. A choice selection from the Duke of Albany class, but larger 

 in pod, more productive and of equally fine quality; mature about the same time as the 

 Duke of Albany. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 25 cts"., qt. 45 cts.' 



STRATAGEM. feet. Pods very large, filled with very large dark green peas 

 of finest quality; medium late. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 18 cts., qt. 35 cts., Hpk. $1.30. 



WHITE MARROWFAT. 84 days; 4V2 feet. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 10 cts., qt. 20 cts., 

 Kpk. 70 cts. 



MAMMOTH-PODDED MELTING SUGAR. In this variety the entire pod is 

 cooked, being sweet, tender and stringless, and makes a delicious dish'; pods 5 or 6 inches 

 long and 1% inches wide; plant very tall; crop late. 

 Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 18 cts., qt. 35 cts., ^pk. $1.30. 



BEANS 



Duke oJ Albany Peas 



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 2 to 2^ feet apart, and covered about 2 inches deep. Successive sowings, made at inter- 

 vals 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 ©tangen mmn) 



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. 

 AW 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. 



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. 15 cts., qt. 30 cts., 

 '.'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., ^pk. $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., Vipk. $1.10. 



SHOTWELL. Of the potato Lima class, and superior to Dreer's Lima in earliness, size and quality. 

 Kentucky Wonder Wax Beans Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 15 cts., qt. 30 cts., %pk. $1.10. 



