NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 1892, 



Uuder this head will be found described our list of Novelties aud Specialties in Vege- 

 table and Flower Seeds, many of which are offered for the first time. Only varieties of 

 real merit are offered, that we can honestly recommend after most thorough trials and 

 found worthy of introduction. We take great pains each season to test and examine all 

 the leading novelties that come on the market, and select such as our experience proves 

 to be distinct and 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 uents 

 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 MAMMOTfl WAX RUSH SEAN. 



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 Yosemite 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. 40 cts., qt., 75 cts., pk . $3.00. 



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 

 unapproached 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 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 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 i 

 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 

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Per pkt.. 10 cts., 3 pkts., 25 cts., 



pt.. 30 cts., qt,, OOjets.. pk.,$2.25. 



