NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 1891. 



We aim to offer, in this special list of Novelties and Specialties in Vegeta.ble and 

 Flower Seeds, only varieties of real merit, such as we can personally recommend as 

 worthy of a trial. We annually test all the leading novelties that come on the market, 

 and select such as our experience proves 1o be distinct aud valuable improvements on 

 the old varieties, and we discard scores of varieties that prove to be only old varieties 

 with a new name. 



On all Seeds in Packets the purchaser is entitled to select Twenty-five Cents 

 Worth Extra for each One Dollar's worth ordered-. 

 The descriptions of most of the following Novelties are as given by their respective introducers. 



YOSEMITE MAMMOTM WAX BtJSH BEAN. 



This wonderful wax variety is the forerunner of a race of giants among beans. The 

 pods are nearly all solid pulp and absolutely stringless, cooking tender and delicious. 

 The monster pods average 10 to 14 inches in length, as shown in cut, and are a rich 

 golden color, making a most handsome appearance either on the plant or on the table. 

 The Yosetnite combines size, productiveness and quality in one variety, and is the 

 nearest approach to perfection that nature has as yet given us in Wax Beans. The 

 plant is a remarkably vigorous one, covering the ground with its heavy foliage in such 

 'a manner as to shade the earth and keep it moist; and if the pods are kept closely 

 picked, new ones will continue to be produced, and a marvelously large crop will be 

 obtained. It has been a prize among beans which all the seedsmen have been striving 

 after. 



Per pkt., 10 cts., 3 pkts., 25 cts., pt., 50 cts., qt., 90 cts. i 



SADDLE-BACK: WAX BUSH BEAN. 



This variety marks a great improvement in Wax 

 Beans. In combining handsome appearance for 

 market and rare quality for table use it is 

 unapproachcd by any other variety in cultivation. 



It is a cross between the Yosemite Mammoth or 

 Monster Wax and the Black-Eyed Wax, and 

 inherits quality from both parents. 



The pod is large, long, straight, round, very 

 full of meat and is absolutely strnngless. The 

 growth of the bush is vigoi-ous, the foliage being 

 suflaciently profuse lo cover the ground in such 

 a manner us to shade it and keep it moist, hence 

 this variety is not liable to suffer severely, as do 

 many other varieties, in a dry season. It is a 

 very profuse bearer. The plants in ordinary 

 field culture usually bearing from 25 to 40 pods 

 each. When the pods are broken between the Beans 

 there is no open space,— the pods being completely 

 filled with meat, and can be sliced like a cucumber 

 without showing any hollow spaces. 



Per pkt., 10 cts., 3 pkts., 25 cts., pt., 40 cts., qt., 75 cts. 



