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bukpee's saddle-back wax bean, accurately engraved from a photograph of an average plant. 



Absolutely the Finest in Quality of all Dwarf Wax Beans. Fleshy Pods as thick as they 



are wide and entirely stringless. 



This superb New Wax Bean is now offered for the first time, and we unreservedly recommend it to our friends and 

 customers as the most valuable Dwarf Wjx Bean now known. This unsurpassed variety originated with Messrs. N. B. 

 Keeney & Sons, Geness^e Co., N. Y., the largest growers of Seed-beans in the world, who gave it the name — Burpee's 

 Saddle-back Wax. It is a cross between Yosemite Mammoih Wax and the Black-eyed Wax, and inherits the best 

 qualities of both parents. For a relialjle description we cannot do better than quote from a letter written by Messrs. Keeney 

 & Sons, in September last: *' The pod is large, long, straight, round and very full of meat and is absolutely stringless. 

 The growth of the bush is vigorous, the foliage being sufficiently profuse to cover the ground in such a manner as to shade 

 it and k-rep it moist, hence this variety is not lixble to suffer severely, as do many other varieties, in a dry season. It is a 

 very profuse bearer, the plants in ordinary fijid culture usually bearing from 25 to 40 pods each. * * * * When the 

 pods are broken betiveen the Beans there is 710 o/>en space — the pods being completely filled with meat, and can be sliced 

 like a cucumber zuithout shoruing- any hollow spaces." This brief description, together with our accurate illustration of 

 an average plant, will plainly show the many valuable points of merit embraced in this New Dwarf Wax Bean, which 

 must eventually drive most of the fl.it-podded sorts out of cultivation. Our stock of seed is direct from the introducer, 

 and is, therefore, absolutely reliable. Per pkg., 2^ cts.; 5 pkgs for$i; n pkgs. for $2. __^ 



Yt^^^ Sunshine W)ci^ pole I^ean. 



We now offer this very valuable New Wax Pole Bean for the first time, and believe it will soon become a standard 

 favorite. It is unusually hardy and withstands dr night and excessive wet weather better than any other variety of Pole 

 Bean. It is a strong and healthy grower without making rank foliage. The pods are borne in clusters of three and four 

 at every joint of the vine, and are light yellow in color, greatly in excess of the green foliage, thus suggesting the appro- 

 priate name — Sunshine. Pods perfectly straight, flat when young, meaty, of finest quality and entirely stringless. The 

 dry Beans are a rich brown in color and of fine quality for Winter use. Our seed is direct from the introducer. 

 Per pkg., 25 cts.; 5 pkgs. for $1; 11 pkgs. for $2. 



SPECIAL OFFER.— One package each of the New Saddle-back Wax Bush, New Sunshine Wax Pole, and Hen- 

 derson's Bush Lima Beans for 60 cts.; 2 packages of each, 6 in all, for Ji.io; 3 packages of each, 9 in all, for ^1.50. . . 



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