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smooth, glossy, and rarely wrinkled, the flesh is remarkably solid and 

 high-flavored, giving a richer, and less watei'y pulp, when cooked than 

 any other. — Price pkr Packet, £6 cts. 



GIAIfT WAX BEAI[, (Eunning.) 



Recently introduced, and differing essentially from the old German 

 Wax Bean, being of a more robust growth, and also more productive, the 

 pods are from six to nine inches in length, and from three-fourths to 

 one inch in breadth, the beans when ripe are of a reddish color. The 

 pods, when fit for use, are of a clear waxy color, perfectly stringless, 

 and when cooked are as tender as marrow, and truly delicious. Cul- 

 tivation: — Fix strong poles to each hill, which should be three feet 

 apart, and four feet between the rows, enrich with well rotten stable 

 manure, or compost of bone dust and wood ashes, or guano and plas- 

 ter, well incorporated in the soil; plant four or five beans to a hill, 

 and allow three of the strongest plants to remain. The first planting 

 can be made early in May, and for Fall use make a second planting 

 about the middle of June. They are in their best condition for use, 

 when the pods have attained their full growth, and yellow color. Price 

 per packet, 25 cts. 



Mr. Burr, author of the "Vegetables of America," says, — **I have 

 given the Giant Wax Bean a fair trial, and am happy to say, that it 

 has proved every thing you claimed it to be." The American Agri- 

 culturist, November, 1866, says, — "Its origin is unknown; but 

 wherever it came from, we welcome it as a valuable addition to our 

 list of varieties." 



OLD COLONY SWEET OOEIT. 



This variety originated in Plymouth Co., Mass., and is a hybrid- 

 Detween the Southern white, and the common sweet corn of New 

 England, combining the size of the ear and kernel, and productive- 

 ness of the Southern, with the sweetness and tenderness of the North- 

 ern pareat. For cultivation in the Southern States, it has been found 

 to be peculiarly adapted, as it not only possesses there the sweetness 

 and excellence that distinguish the Sweet Corn of the temperate, and 

 cooler sections, but does not deteriorate by long cultivation, as other 

 sweet varieties almost invariably are found t . do. — In packets con- 

 taining about one ear,^10 cts. — per qt. 50 cts. 



PELTOE"'S EXTEA EAELT TOMATO. 



This is triily, as represented, an early variety; it originated on the 

 grounds of Mr. Felton, who is well known in Philadelphia as one of 

 our most successful market gardeners, and noted for his fine displays 

 of vegetables at the exhibitions of the Pennsylvania Horticultural 

 Society. AVe do not claim that it is thirty days earlier than any other 

 variety, but will warrant it earlier than any other kind now known. 

 The fruit is of medium size, bright red, quite firm, somewhat inclined 

 to wrinkle, and with very few seeds. The plant is dwarf in its habit, 

 and remarkably productive. This variety we consider of great valuo 

 to the market gardener. — Per packet, 25 cts. 



