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



Complete 

 List of 



VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



IMPROVED BLACK WAX BEAN. 



improved "Henderson" bush lima. 





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improved "Henderson" bush lima. 





old homestead 

 pole bean. 



BEANS. DWARF WAX-PODDED— Continued. 



Flageolet Wax. Valuable for either private use or market ; very early and un 

 usually free from rust, exceedingly productive; pods flat, often 12 inche: 

 long, succulent and tender 



Golden Scimitar, Henderson's. A perfect type of large, round-podded wax Bean 

 the top notch of achievement in the development of this class 



Golden Wax Improved. A handsome Bean; rich golden pods without string, 

 of tender, melting quality; a superior Bean for either private or market use 



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

 bearing abundantly beautiful, tender, large, flat, waxy-golden pods. It 

 grows li feet high, holding the pods well off the ground 



Henderson's Market Wax. A new, unusually robust growing, flat, immense 

 wax-podded variety; pods showy and handsome, clear yellow, stringless and 

 of fine quality. A prolific cropper, very early for so large a sort, and also of 

 fine flavor and valuable as a shell Bean 



Keeney's Rustless Wax. A vigorous wax-podded variety, wonderfully pro 

 ductive, and bearing continuously for weeks, if the pods are picked as soon 

 as ready. The pods are thick and meaty, entirely stringless, tender and of 

 fine quality. The plant throws out long pod-bearing tendrils which appear 

 at first like runners 



Refugee Wax. Possesses the valuable characteristics of the green-podded 

 Refugee, with the added value of being wax-podded and of great productive- 

 ness; practically everbearing. Pods handsome, round, transparent yellow 

 remaining tender long. A great drought and rust resister 



Valentine Wax. An extra early Valentine with round wax pods, possessing 

 the excellent features of the green-podded sort. It is very early, giving a 

 fair picking in 46 days. A great yielder of handsome waxy yellow pods 

 solid, meaty, tender and almost stringless 



Wardwell's Kidney Wax. One of the best large-podded wax Beans. Very 



| robust and hardy, producing a heavy crop of showy, large, long, flat wax 



pods, not liable to rust or blister . Crop failure 



Yosemite Mammoth Wax, Henderson's. A grand variety, yielding prodi 



fcgiously immense golden-yellow, waxy pods 10 to 14 inches long; they are 



thick, meaty and absolutely stringless, cooking tender and delicious. It is a 



robust growing sort, needing to be planted twice as far apart as ordinary bush 



i Beans, jl Succeeds well on poor soils 



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BEANS, BUSH LIMA. 



Improved " Henderson " Bush Lima. A true bush variety 18 to 20 inches 

 high, requiring no support; enormously productive and early, coming in 

 weeks ahead of any other Lima and bearing continuously until frost, suc- 

 ceeding even in Northern States; the beans have the true Lima flavor, but- 

 tery, rich and tender. The surest cropper of all 



' Henderson " Bush Lima. The original — about 3 days earlier than the Im- 

 proved — but pods and beans are smaller 



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

 20 inches high; the pods and beans are nearly the same size as the latter. 

 While not as early as the " Henderson," its large size commends-it to many 



Dreer's Bush Lima. A bush variety of the " Dreer " Lima. Beans thick 

 sweet and succulent; growing close together in the pods. Growth vigorous, 

 about 18 inches high, with abundant foliage, always succeeding even in dry 

 seasons 



New Wonder Bush Lima, Dreer's. A distinct bush variety; plant and pod very 



»- similar to Burpee's Bush, but earlier and a surer cropper; the shelled beans 

 ' E^re handsome, tender and delicious. An acquisition 



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BEANS, POLE LIMA. ^^wpi^fp^p~j?5i^ ^ ^J5W?^] --< 3-75? 

 Henderson's Early Leviathan Lima. A. grand new variety, extremely early 



of immense size, wonderfully productive and of superior quality 



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 



Jersey Extra Early Lima. Often ready to pick the latter part of July, much 



earlier than the Large White Lima, though the beans are a trifle smaller but 



preferable, being exceedingly tender and delicious; very prolific 



Potato Lima 



King of the Garden Lima 



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



large yielder; very early 



Small Lima, or Sieva. A small seeded variety of Large White Lima with small 



pods, usually about 3 inches long; a little earlier and hardier 



BEANS. CLIMBING or POLE. 



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

 pole Beans; enormously productive, extra e?rly and continuous bearer; large 

 green pods in great clusters, stringless and tender 



Golden Carmine-Podded Horticultural. A new climbing Bean of robust 

 growth; an early and prolific yielder of large, fleshy, stringless pods of a hand- 

 some golden color, mottled with carmine ; unsurpassed both as a " snap " and 

 shell bean 



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

 clusters of fleshy green pods, 5 to 6 inches long, deeply creased, perfectly 

 stringless, tender and of superior quality used as a " snap" bean. The 

 matured beans are pure white and excellent shelled 



Golden Champion, Henderson's. The leading wax-podded pole Bean, very 

 early and a great and continuous bearer of enormous, light yellow waxy 

 pods, absolutely stringless brittle and tender; a healthy grower, free 

 from rust 



Early Golden Cluster. Begins bearing in July, continuing to produce abun- 

 dantly ttntil frost large clusters of golden -yellow pods 6 to 8 inches long, and 

 of delicious flavor. Valuable either as a shell or snap 



Horticultural or Speckled Cranberry. An old and popular variety, usefufjeither 

 as a green-podded snap Bean or when shelled 



Scarlet Runner. Popular both for ornamental and culinary purposes, 'fflt 

 grows about 10 feet high ; large scarlet flowers, followed by large green-podded 

 beans; used either as a snap Beaii or shelled 



PRICES. 



(Add for free delivery on 

 Beans, 5c. pt., 10c. qt.) 



Pint. 



Quart 



Peck. 



15c. 



30c. 



1.85 



20c. 



35c. 



2.25 



15c. 



30c. 



2.00 



15c. 



25c. 



1.85 



20c. 



35c. 



2.25 



15c. 



25c. 



1.85 



15c. 



30c. 



1.85 



15c. 



30c. 



1.85 



20c. 



35c. 



2.00 



20c. 



35c. 



2.00 



15c. 



30c. 



1.70 



15c. 



30c. 



1.70 



15c. 



30c. 



1.80 



20c. 



35c. 



1.80 



20c. 



35c. 



2.25 



15c. 



25c. 



1.60 



15c. 

 15c. 



15c. 



30c. 

 30c. 

 30c. 



1.70 

 1.70 

 1.70 



15c. 



30c. 



1.70 



15c. 



30c. 



1.80 



15c. 



30c. 



2.00 



20c. 



40c. 



2.50 



15c. 



30c. 



1.75 



15c. 



30c. 



2.00 



15c. 



30c. 



1.75 



15c. 



25c. 



1.70 



15c. 



30c. 



1.70 



The Superiority of Henderson's Seeds, Plants, Bulbs, etc., f h ^™ 65 Highest Awards at the Columbian and Pan=American Expositions. 



