ASPARAGUS. 
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Asperge (Fr.), Spargel (Ger.), Esperagos (Sp.), 
Sparagio (Ital.) 
CULTUBE.—Sow early in spring 2 inches deep 
in rows 18 inches apart. When one or two 
years old transplant into permanent bed, in fur- 
rows 4 to 5 feet apart and 2 feet between the 
plants. Deep loamy soil, thoroughly cultivated 
and heavily manured, is required for permanent 
bed. One ounce of seed will produce about 200 
plants; 5 pounds to the acre. Send for Book on 
Asparagus Culture, 80c. postpaid. 
COLUMEIA MAMMOTH.—Large, clear white 
stalks until 6 inches above the ground. 
CONOVER’S COLOSSAL.—The most approved | 
-and standard variety. 
PALMETTO.—Another good variety, especially : 
adapted to the South. The sprouts are strong, § 
of vigorous growth, very tender and not bitter. : 
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Steckler’s Seeds are Best 
Best Seeds Always Grow 
Columbia Mammoth. 
BEANS (Dwarf or Bush). 
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Haricot (Fr.), Bohne (Ger.), Haba (Sp.), Faginoli (Ital.) 
CULTURE.—Place in rows eighteen inches apart; drop two beans every two or three 
inches. Plant from end of February, and for succession, every two or three weeks to 
May. Bush Beans planted in this latitude during June and July will not produce much. 
August and September are good months in which to plant again; they will produce 
abundantly until killed by the frost. Do not cover the seeds more than two inches. 
One quart to 150 feet of drill. 1% bushels to acre. 
STECKLER’S NEW CALICO BUSH | FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA.—The green 
BUTTER.—A very early variety, making beans, even when of full size, are tender, 
strong, vigorous vines, branching out with | juicy and sweet in flavor when cooked, re- 
many shoots or stems and bearing clusters | sembling the flavor of the finer varieties of 
of beans from bottom to top. When in large flat Lima—as distinct from the 
full bearing it is easy for one picking the | rather dry and mealy character of all 
- beans to gather a handful of nice beans at other varieties of the Potato, Challenger, 
a single grasp. The flavor of this bean is | or Lima type. 
excellent; it is used either as a green bean | HENDERSON’S BUSH LIMA.—tThis is a 
or dry shelling. When gathered green it Dwarf Butter Bean, growing from 18 to 
is a beautiful waxy white color and at ma- 24 inches high. It is early and productive. 
turity it has a mingled color of white, It should be called Dwarf Carolina or 
brown and red; making it a distinctive Sewee Bean, as the pods are the size of 
calico variety. that variety. 
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Henderson’s Dwarf Lima. 
The Quality is Remembered Long After the Price is Forgotten. 
