PETER HENDERSON & CO.. NEW YORK.— WHOLESALE CATALOGUE. 



Header^ Earliest Red Valentine Bean. 



America's Standard Green=Podded Dwarf Snap Bean. 



Fully 10 days earlier than the old popular Valentine. 

 Often ready for picking in 45 days from planting. 

 Yields prodigiously. Full, round, meaty pods of un- 

 surpassed tenderness and quality. 



""THIS grand variety is a great improvement over the 

 1 original Red Valentine, which it has now entirely 

 supplanted, being fully ten days earlier; often ready to 

 pick in forty-five days from sowing. The healthy, vig- 

 orous plants are unusually hardy, withstanding frosts 

 that kill other varieties; it may therefore be planted 

 very early. This, with its quick development, makes 

 it the earliest large-podded variety, and on this account 

 it is extensively grown by truckers over wide sections of 

 the country. 



It is a big yielder of handsome, long, round, fleshy 

 pods, rich green in color and of unsurpassed tenderness 

 and quality when gathered young, when it is practically 

 stringless. It is the Standard Snap Bean, not only for 

 the earliest but for successive plantings, bearing up to 

 frost. {See cut.) Price, 25c. qt., $1.50 pk., $5.50 bush. 



" Your Earliest Red Valentine Snap Beans were a marvel of uni- 

 form maturity and earliness." A. O'HALLORAN, 



Lynchburg, Va. 



" Earliest Red Valentine Bean is an excellent cropper; it has a 

 strong constitution . hence not subject to the rust that spoils the ap- 

 pearance of many other beans." 



AMERICAN GARDENING. 



H endersons ^xtra Barly Refugee. 



This has become one of the standard green pod varieties for the 

 market gardener. It is as early as the Red Valentine, and from ten 

 days to two weeks earlier than Refugee or 1000 to 1. The plant re- 

 sembles the Valentine. The pods are true round, curved and darker 

 in color than the Refugee or 1000 to 1. It is enormously prolific, of 

 vigorous growth, yielding good crops in unfavorable seasons. It will 

 be found a good sort for those who ship long distances, almost certain 

 to produce a crop even in unfavorable seasons; enormously prolific, 

 exceptionally free from string and meltingly tender at all stages of 

 growth. 25c. qt., $1.60 peck, $5.50 bushel. 



REFUGEE, °J^± 



,000 to I." 



The most prolific dwarf, 

 green-podded Snap Bean. 



A VERY popular market gardeners' vari- 

 ** ety on account of its exceeding produc- 

 tiveness. It is medium early and is also 

 extensively grown both in the north and 

 south for a fall crop. The plants are of 

 healthy, robust growth, about 15 inches 

 high, of true branching bush growth. The 

 pods are of attractive appearance, round, 

 long and slim, of light green color, fleshy, 

 solid and brittle, with but slight string and 

 of tender and mild flavor. This type of 

 bean is the most popular in the markets of 

 the large cities and it is also extensively used 

 for pickling. Our strain of Refugee is verv 

 fine. {See cut.) Price, 25c. qt., $1.50 pk^, 

 $5.25 bush. 



" Save me 2 bushels of the same strain of Refugee 

 Beans that you supplied me last season. You would be 

 surprised to learn what the two acres of them netted me. 

 They were the finest I ever saw." 



JOHN E. DINTINGER, 

 Norfolk. Va. 



Henderson's Superior Seeds Retain our Customers for Decades, g 



"l nave dealt now wit ft your firm for over so years, and I safely assert that after try- 

 ing various other seedsmen during that period, I have always returned to Peter- 

 Henderson <£■ Co.. as the most reliable firm in its dealings." 



JOHN F. WIELANDY, Santa Fe, Xew Mexico. 



