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HENDERSON'S TESTED SEEDS FOR MARKET GARDENERS. 



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Complete List of 



VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



OLD HOMESTEAD POLE BEAN. 



BEANS — Continued. 



DWARF WAX-PODDED or "BUTTER" BEANS. 



Black Wax, Henderson's Improved. One of the best early round podded wax'varieties 

 an enormous cropper, of good quality and an excellent shipper 



Currie's Rustproof Wax. A very popular "thick flat" podded variety 



California Rustproof Wax. Very similar to Currie's Rustproof Wax 



Davis' Kidney Wax. An excellent shipping variety : 



Flageolet Wax. Valuable for market; unusually free from rust, exceedingly productive; 

 pods flat, 8 inches long, succulent and tender 



Golden Wax Improved. This improved stock has quite superseded the older variety 



Golden-Eyed Wax. An early, vigorous variety, free from rust and blight, bearing 

 large, flat, waxy-golden pods of great substance. It grows lyi feet high, holding the 

 pods well off the ground 



Hodson Long Pod Wax. Hodson Wax is in many ways quite distinct from all other 

 bush beans. Its great size enables it to carry a much larger crop of pods than any 

 other; it is not unusual for it to produce twice as much as any other variety. The 

 plants should stand six inches apart in the row, and on very favorable soils they yield 

 better at a still greater distance. The crop should be picked as soon as the pods have 

 attained their size, as when old they are apt to develop too much string. The heavy 

 foliage keeps the pods well sheltered from the sun, so that their very light cream color 

 is well preserved. It is not early, the crop usually being ready about 12 days after 

 the early sorts. In seasons when all varieties have been attacked by rust more 

 or less severely, Hodson Wax has again and again proved itself practically free 

 not only from rust, but from all other diseases. (.See engraving page it) (See 

 specialties page I) 



Refugee Wax. Possesses the valuable character of the old Refugee or 1000 to 1, but is 

 wax podded and an enormous cropper. The pods are handsome, round and transpar- 

 ent yellow. A great drought and rust resister and remains in good condition long 

 after maturity 



Unrivaled Wax. A comparatively new variety, very early , 



Wardwell's Kidney Wax. A handsome large podded sort for main crop 



Quart. 



BEANS, BUSH LIMA. 



Early Giant, Henderson's. It is the earliest of the large bush sorts, and may there 

 fore be had on the table weeks ahead of the old pole varieties. The strong, rugged 

 plant produces so freely and continuously that a small planting will ensure an 

 abundant supply of the most delicious beans right up to frost 



Improved "Henderson" Bush Lima. About five days later than the "Henderson 

 but the beans and pods are larger; it is not so prolific but equally good in other re- 

 spects 



"Henderson" Bush Lima. A true bush variety, requiring no support: enormously 

 productive and extremely early, coming in two weeks ahead of any other Bush or 

 Climbing Lima and bearing continuously until frost, succeeding even in Northern 

 States; the beans have the true Lima flavor. The surest, and most prolific cropper 

 of all. (See engraving) 



Burpee's Bush Lima. A bush form of the Large White Lima, growing about 20 inches 

 high; the pods and beans are large. While not as early as the "Henderson," its large 

 size commends it to many 



Fordhook Bush Lima. Of true bush habit, growing stiffly erect. The pods, borne in 

 clusters, are 4 to 5 inches in length and contain three to five splendid plump beans 

 It is also early and a heavy cropper 



Dreer's Bush Lima. A most satisfactory variety for general crop for the market 

 gardener. Though not quite so compact as some other varieties the habit of the 

 plant is well fixed. It bears an enormous crop of very attractive beans of the same 

 shape as the Dreer's Improved Pole Lima; just the bean the market demands 

 The beans are produced near the centre of the plant in enormous quantities and the 

 plants bear clear up till frost. Few crops are more profitable 



Potato Bush Lima . Similar to the preceding 



BEANS, POLE LIMA. 



Early Leviathan Lima, Henderson's. Leviathan is fully a week earlier than any other 

 pole variety, therefore can be grown successfully where other sorts would be caught 

 by early frosts. The plant is strong and takes to the poles more readily than any 

 other sort. It is a prodigious cropper, producing its pods in large clusters from base 

 to top of pole, frequently from 5 to 10 together. These are well filled with large fleshy 

 beans of excellent quality, pale green in color, and possessing that rich, buttery 

 flavor so highly esteemed by all 



Ideal, Henderson's. This is another sterling variety of our own introduction. The 

 pods are amazingly large, and borne in great clusters. The vine does not differ 

 materially from that of the ordinary pole varieties. Its chief distinction lies in the 

 size of the pods, and the fact that the average yield is greater than in any other va 

 riety. Though a little later than our Early Leviathan, it is just as early as the ordin- 

 ary pole varieties, and continues to produce enormous crops of the best-flavored 

 beans, right up to frost 



Large White Lima. The old favorite, universally grown for both family and market 

 use. The large, flat, kidney-shaped beans, shelled either green or dried, are tender 

 and delicious when cooked 



Challenger, or Potato Lima 



King of the Garden Lima 



Dreer's Improved Lima. A thick, almost round Bean of fine quality and a large yielder; 

 very early 



BEANS. CLIMBING or POLE. 



Old Homestead. This variety we consider superior to all other green-podded pole 

 Beans; enormously productive, early and continuous bearer; large green pods in 



great clusters, stringless and tender (See engraving) 



White Creaseback. One of the finest early pole Beans, bearing in profusion clusters 

 of fleshy green pods, 4 to 5 inches long and deeply creased. Perfectly stringless, 

 tender and of superior quality when used as a snap Bean. The matured beans are 

 pure white and excellent shelled 



PRICES. 



Beans we do not de- 

 liver free. Purchaser 

 pays transportation by 

 the quart and over. 

 For Parcel Post Zone 

 Rates see page 3 of 

 cover. Beans weigh 

 (Postal weight) 2 lbs. 

 per qt. 



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.70 

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70 



Peck. Bush 



4.20 

 4.20 

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4.20 

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4.20 



4.20 



4.20 

 4.60 

 4.20 



6.20 

 5.60 



5.20 

 5.20 

 6.20 



6.20 

 6.20 



5.60 



5.60 



5.20 

 5.20 

 5.20 



5.20 



5.20 



5.40 



Our business 

 •u founded by 



Peter Henderson in 1 847 and ^? v Tu^ ed Charles Henderson 



on by his son 



and by his 

 grandsons 



Peter and Howard M. Henderson. 



