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BURPEE'S 



POLE BEANS. 



Add T5C. per quart extra if to be sent by mail. 



i quart to 150 hills, 10 to 12 quarts to the acre. 



Culture. — Choose light soil, and make small hills 3 feet apart, 

 having previously spaded deeply and fertilized. Plant long poles 

 two feet deep in the centre of the hills. 



Allot six beans to each hill, covering them barely beneath the 

 surface, their eyes downward. Do not allow more than three to climb 

 a pole, but remove extra plants to hills where less than three have 

 sprouted. 



The Lima Bean is very delicate, and often fails to sprout from 

 slight cause ; they should not be planted until the ground is warm, 

 or started in hot-beds and transplanted. 



Extra Size L.arge L.ima.— Large white bean, very tender; 

 used without shell ; equally good in winter, if soaked 6 to 10 hours 

 before cooking. Pint 15c. Quart 25c. Peck 51.50. Bu. 56.00. 



King of the Garden.— Large bean and pod ; very heavy 

 cropper. Pint 15c. Quart 25c. Peck $1.75. Bu. $6.50. 



Speekeled Horticultural, or Cherry.— Very produc. 



tive ; equally good in the green state or when shelled. Pint 15c. 

 Quart 25c. Peck $1.50. Bu. 55.50. 



Kentucky Wonder, or Improved Old Homestead 



We regard this variety as being the most desirable, best and earliest 

 of all the green-podded running beans. It is enormously productive, 

 the pods hanging in great clusters from top to bottom of pole, which 

 are of a silvery-green color and entirely stringless ; they cook delici- 

 ously tender and melting ; they are a very great favorite, and strong, 

 ly recommended, especially for the South, in preference to the South- 

 ern Prolific, which has been the old favorite of that section for many 

 years. Pint 15c. Quart 25c, Peck $1.75. Bu. $6.50. 



Scarlet Runner.— This variety grows about twelve'or fifteen 

 feet ; foliage bright green and flowers brilliant scarlet ; it is generally 

 cultivated as an ornamental climber, and is very attractive ; it is used 

 in many localities as a vegetable ; the pods are of a bright scarlet 

 color, and when young are very tender and excellent when shelled. 

 Quart 30c. Peck *2.oo. Bu. $7.00. 



L<azy Wife's Pole. — The naming of this variety was evi- 

 dently a misnomer, as it is not expected of wives to do men's work. 

 Let men pick the beans and wives will prepare them for the table, as 

 there are more lazy men than there are lazy wives. It is, however, 

 a remarkable variety, not only for its great productiveness but also 

 for its fine quality. The pods are produced in great clusters, and 

 almost a handful can be grasped at once, which makes the picking 

 of them an easy task. They continue bearing throughout the season. 

 The pods are broad, thick, fleshy, and from four to six inches long, 

 and when young entirely stringless ; are of a rich buttery flavor. 

 Beans when dry are white, and are also unsurpassed as shell-beans 



for Winter use. 

 DWARF LIMA. 



Pint 15c. Quart 30c. Peck $1 



Bu. 5:. co. 



This is a bush form of the well-known large White 

 Lima Bean. It is very fixed in its bush character, 

 growing to a uniform height of about twenty inches, and 

 forming a circular bush two to two and a half feet in 

 diameter, yielding from fifty to two hundred pods sim- 

 ilar to those grown on the Large White Lima Pole 

 Beans, and contain as many beans of the same delicious 

 quality. (See cut). Pint 15c. Qt. 25c. Pk. $1.75. 

 Bu. 56.50. 



