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J. STICKLER SEED CO., LTD., ALMANAC AND 



Steckler's New Perfectly Straight 

 Round Bush. This is a strong, upright 

 grower; holds its fruit exceedingly well; 

 beans perfectly round and straight; extra 

 heavy bearer and is two weeks earlier 

 than the long favorite grown around New 

 Orleans, the "Best of all Beans " It is 

 planted by the most experienced vegeta- 

 ble gardeners of the Crescent City and 

 pronounced the best green Bush Bean yet 

 introduced. Experience has shown it to 

 do well both in the Spring and Fall. 



Refugee Wax. A perfect Extra Early 

 Refugee, with long, round, wax pods of a 

 golden j^ellow color, and of the finest qual- 

 ity. Bears immense crops, free from rust. 

 Currie's Rust Proof Wax. This is an 

 early, productive, good bean, having long, 

 flat, yellow pods of fine quality. Foliage 

 healthy and rust proof. 



White Wax. A desirable snap bean. 

 Pods are broad, flat, yellow and semi- 

 transparent when boiled, and is of a deli- 

 cate flavor. 



Longfellow Green-Podded. An extra 

 early variety, although comparatively new, 

 has been pretty widely distributed, and we 

 have yet to hear anything but praise about 

 its fine quality and other merits; it is in fact 

 an ideal snap bean, a prolific producer of per- 

 fectly round, straight, solid, fleshy pods 

 averaging 6^ inches long, wonderfully tender 

 and brittle, without a trace of tough inter- 

 lining, and having no string when broken, 

 excepting when the pods are quite old. The 

 flavor is most delicious, captivating the most 

 critical, while the delicate green color of the 

 pods is retained after cooking, adding to its 

 attraction when served. The plants are of 

 robust, compact habit, unexcelled in bearing 



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BUSH f BEANS 



qualities, maturing the crop very regularly. 

 It is extra early, the pods being fit to pick 

 four days in advance of any other variety of 

 approximate size and merit. 



The Bountiful Bean. This is one of Hen- 

 derson's new beans; it is a broad, flat podded 

 variety which is very productive and not 

 likely to rust; it is considered by a great many 

 people to be a very superior bean. 



Black Valentine Bean. This variety has 

 all the good qualities of the Red Speckled 

 Valentine and is much earlier, which is a great 

 consideration when planted for the market. 

 It is a bean worthy of being planted in every 

 family garden. 



BEANS — Pole or Running. 

 Hahicot3 a Rame (Fr.), Stangen Bohkek (Ger.) Frigolo Vastago (Sp.) Faginoli dtal.) 



Large Lima. 



Carolina or Sewee. 



Southern Willow-leaved Sewee or Butter. 



Dutch Case Knife. 



Southern Prolific. 



Adams' Everbearing Cluster Butter. 



White Crease Back\ 



Cut Short. 



Early Golden Cluster Wax. 



Lazy Wife's. 



Improved Kentucky Wonder or Old Home- 

 stead. 



White Sickle. 



Perfectly Round, Straight, Imported White 

 Crease Back. 



SieberVs Lima. 



CULTURE — Lima Beans should not be planted before the ground has become warm in 

 spring. Strong poles ought to be set in the ground from four to six feet apart and the ground 

 drawn around them before the seed is planted. It is always best to plant after a rain and 

 with the eye of the bean down. The other varieties can be planted flat; and not more than 

 three or four feet apart, and hilled after they are up. Do not cover the seeds more than two 

 inches; one inch is enough for the Southern Prolific and Crease Back. 



Adams' Everbearing Cluster Butter. 



One of the best flavored, earliest and most 

 productive climbing Butter Beans, contain- 

 ing numerous clusters of pods borne close to 

 the stems, each stem holding four to ei#ht 

 pods. Pods measure three to four inches 



long, with an average of three to four well 

 formed small beans in each. Blooms and 

 bears more abundantly than any small climb- 

 ing butter bean we have known. Withstands 

 both heat and light frosts. We recommend 

 same highly. 



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