HENDERSON'S TESTED SEEDS FOR MARKET GARDENERS. 



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p xTRA EARLY KEFUGEE BEAN. 



This is one of the very best green podded varieties for 

 the market gardener. It is ready at the same time as the 

 Earliest Red Valentine, and two weeks earlier than the 

 Late Refugee, or 1000 to 1. The plant has the true 

 Refugee habit, bearing a mass of small leaves, which 

 shelter the pods from hot suns. The pods are round, 

 almost straight, fleshy and solid, and of remarkable uni- 

 formity in size. It is a prodigious cropper, an excellent 

 shipper, is popular on all markets and of excellent 

 quality in every respect. {See engraving.) 



Price, 30c. qt., $1.90 peck, $7.00 bush. 



REFUGEE, or 1000 to 1. 



The best dwarf late, green-podded Snap Bean. 



A very popular market gardener's variety on account of 

 its exceeding productiveness. It is extensively grown for 

 a fall crop both in the north and south. The plants are 

 strong, healthy and robust, about 15 inches high, branch- 

 ing and bushy in growth. The pods are of attractive 

 appearance, round, long and slim, light green in color, 

 fleshy, solid and brittle, with but slight string; tender and 

 -well flavored. This bean is the most popular of all in 

 the markets of large cities and is extensively used for pick- 

 ing. Our strain is very fine, and will be found free from 

 flat pods. Price, 25c. qt., $1.70 pk., $6.50 bush. 



" / take pleasure in writing you about the Refugee Beans you shipped 

 me. It is the best seed I ever planted — / tested the seeds from each bag — 

 over 90% good and I got a perfect stand. Quite a quantity of inferior 

 seed was planted around here and planters had to plant over." 



D. T. WEST. Charleston, S. C. 



*' / am pleased to say that J have grown your Rejugee Beans, this season, 



and have harvested the best rrop I ever had. I use vour seeds and no other." 



B. F. HULL, Jensen, Fla. 



GOLDEN EYED WAX BEAN. 



An early, vigorous variety free from rust and blight, bearing abundantly 

 beautiful, tender, large, flat, waxy-golden pods. It grows If feet high, holding 

 the pods well off the ground. Price 30c. qt., $2.20 peck, $8.00 bu. 



The Hodson 



LONG'POD WAX 

 , . BUSH BEAN . . 



Enormous Plants. Enormous Pods. 



Enormous Yielder. 



Never Affected by Rust and Blight. 



This distinctive new type of bean is re- 

 markable for great size of plant and pod 

 and wonderf'il productiveness. Outyielding 

 any other bush bean two to one on a given 

 area. The strong, sturdy plants often at- 

 tain dimensions 2| feet in height, and bear 

 great quantities of long, meaty pods, mea- 

 suring 7 to 8 inches in length. The ample 

 foliage sheltering the pods from the hot sun 

 renders them exceptionally tender, brittle, 

 and if picked before too old they are string- 

 less, and of fine quality. 



This variety is absolutely immune from 

 bean diseases. Not a trace of rust, blight 

 or mildew has ever appeared on a plant 

 or pod in our trial grounds or fields during 

 the years we have been growing them. The 

 Hodson Bush Bean comes in about 2 weeks 

 after the earliest dwarf varieties, and for main 

 crop is now considered very important for 

 both the private table and for market growers 

 on account of its phenomenal vigor and 

 productiveness. The plants should be thinned 

 out to at least 6 inches apart in the rows on 

 account of their great size. (See engraving.) 



Price, 30c. qt., 2.20 peck $8.00 bu. 



There is also a Hodson Green Pod Bush 

 Bean. (See page 35.) 



