GENERAL LIST OF VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



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Improved Valentine. 



Improved Red 

 Valentine. 



By all odds the 

 leading and most 

 generally culti- 

 vated of green 

 podded bush 

 beans. A distinct 

 stock, bred from 

 the Early Red 

 Spreckled Valen- 

 tine, and ten days 

 earlier; vines 

 very un iform 

 making little top 

 growth, setting 

 its fruit low, ripe- 

 ning uniformly, 

 and producing 

 enormously ;pods 

 tender. Pkt. 5c; 

 qt. 25c; pk. §1.60 



Best of All. This dwarf bean is one of the best. It has 

 round glossy pods twice as long as those of the Valentine, 

 very tender and succulent, and an enormous producer. Pkt. 

 5 cts.; qt. 25 cts.; pk. $1.50. 



Pride of Newton Claimed to be the earliest and most 

 prolific bean in cultivation, vigorous in growth, pods flat, 

 very long and light green in color. The seed should be sown 

 thinly as the plant is of very robust bushy growth. Pkt. 10 

 cts.; pt. 30 cts.; qt. 60 cts. 



China Red Eye. Pods short and flat, of fine quality as 

 snaps, vines erect in growth and large in foliage. When dry 

 they are excellent for baking. Pkt. 5 cts.; qt. 25 cts.; peck 

 $1.50. 



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 hardy as 

 Peas), in order to get them into pod before the heat of sum- 

 mer. When in pod, break off the top of the plant to check 

 the growth. Plant and hoe same as for Dwarf Beans; a strong 

 soil suits them best. These beans are eaten shelled. 



The largest and best for main crop. 

 The earliest of this class. Pkt. 5 



Broad Windsor. 



Pkt. 5 cts.; qt. 30 cts. 



Early Mazugan. 



cts.; qt. 30 cts. 



BEANS, POLE OR RUNNING-. (Stangenbohne.) 



This class is less hardy tha'n 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 three to three and one-half feet 

 apart, slightly raising the soil around them. Allow four or five 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 back when about five feet in height, in order to send the 

 strength of the plant into the pods. 



Large Lima. The standard variety for a general crop, 

 both for a shell or a dry bean; beans large and produced 

 abundantly until frost. Pkt. 5 cts.; qt. 35 cts.; pk. $2.50. 



Dreer's Improved Lima. The seed of this variety is 

 roundish in form and smaller than other sorts when ripe; the 

 green bean, however, is quite large; it is early and productive, 

 and of extra good quality. Pkt. 5 cts.; qt. 35 cts.; pk. $2.50. 



King of the G-arden Lima. This is an improvement 

 on the Large Lima, excelling it considerably in size and 

 productiveness, and 

 fully equaling it in all 

 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 produce con- 

 tinuous bloom and 

 fruitage until the end 

 of the season. Pkt. 5 

 cts ; qt. 35 cts.; pk. 

 $2.50. 



Jersey Extra Li- 

 ma Claimed to be 

 very early; in size and 

 appearance it resem- 

 bles the Large Lima; 

 very desirable to grow 

 in sections where the 

 seasons are too short 

 for ordinary sorts. Pkt. 

 5 cts.; qt. 35 cts.; pk. 

 $2.50. 



Small White Li- 

 ma, Carolina or 

 Sieva Vines vigor- 

 ous but short with 

 many short branches, 

 so that they are some- 

 times grown without 

 poles; very early and 

 productive, with small, 

 smooth, dark green 

 leaves and small, yel- 

 lowish-white blossoms; 

 pods short, curved, 

 thin, flat; beans white, 

 small, broad, kidney- 

 shaped, but inferior in 

 quality to the other 

 Limas. Pkt. 5 cts.; 

 qt. 35 cts.; 



German Wax, 

 Black Seed. Excel- 

 lent as a snap or shell- 

 ed in the green state; 

 pods large and fleshy, 

 and golden yellow in 

 color; matures in sev- 

 enty days, and is very 

 productive. Pkt. 5 

 cts.; qt. 35 cts. 



Cream Seeded 

 Cut-Short. Known 

 as a cornfield bean, of 

 which it is one of the 

 best; it is very pro- 

 ductive ; valuable 

 either as a green snap 

 or for shelling. Pkt. 5 cts 



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King of the^Garden. 

 ; qt. 35 cts. 



Kentucky Wonder. Vines vigorous, climbing well and 

 very productive, bearing its pods in large clusters; blossoms 

 white; pods green, very long, often reaching nine or ten 

 inches, nearly round when young, and very crisp, becoming 

 very irregular and spongy as the beans ripen. Dry beans 

 long, oval dun colored. A very prolific sort, with very 

 showy pods. Pkt. , 5 cts. ; qt. , 40 cts. ; 



Add postage at the rate of 8 cents per pint, and 15 cents 

 per quart for beans, if to be sent by mail. 



