for better home gardens 



Name 



BEANS— FOR DRY USE 

 White Navy or Michelite 



Red Kidney 



BEANS— POLE WAX POD 

 Kentucky Wonder Wax 



BEANS— POLE GREEN POD 



*Blue Lake 



*Burger's Green Pod 

 Stringless 



*Early Blue Lake 



Improved Missouri Wonder 



*Kentucky Wonder, Rust 

 Resistant (Brown Seeded) 



Lazy Wife 



London Horticultural 



McCaslan Pole 



*Morse's Pole No. 191 



Oregon Giant 



Scarlet Runner 



Scotia or Striped 

 Creaseback 



*White Creaseback 

 (Blue Lake) 



*White Seeded Kentucky 

 Wonder (Burger's Green 

 Pod Stringless) 



BEANS— DWARF LIMA 



*Burpee's Improved Bush 

 Dwarf Large White 



Early Market 



*Fordhook Bush 

 (Potato Lima) 



*Fordhook No. 242 



^Henderson's Bush (Baby 

 Lima) 



Jackson Wonder Bush 

 *Thorogreen 



BEANS— POLE LIMA 



^Challenger or Fordhook 

 Pole 



Florida Butter, Speckled 



*King of the Garden 



Large Speckled or 

 Christmas 



Small White (Carolina or 

 Sieva) 



Days to 



Table 



Size 



95 

 100 



65 

 63 



55 



66 



65 



74 



70 



65 



63 



70 



90 



72 



65 



63 



75 

 78 



68 



75 

 76 

 65 

 66 

 65 



92 

 85 

 90 

 90 



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Description— Points You Want to Know— Prices 



Plants large with tendency to form runners. Hardy. Prolific. Beans ripen uniformly. The 

 common white bean of commerce carton 15c 



Seeds kidney shaped. Rich deep red. Standard commercial variety carton 15c 



Pods thick and wide. Good climber. Heavily productive 



Same as White Creaseback 



Same as White Seeded Kentucky Wonder 



carton 15c 



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Earlier than original strain, and vines shorter and more slender. Desirable in sections where 

 season is short, or for early market carton 15c 



Seeds medium size, flattened, kidney shaped. Unsurpassed as green shell beans 



carton 15c 



Slender, dark green pods often 10 in. long hang in clusters. Best quality green pole bean. 

 Considerable resistance to bean rust. Our introduction carton 15c 



Good climber. Heavily productive. Pods medium green, 6 to 6H in. long, fleshy, Excellent 

 for snaps, green shell, and dry shell use carton 15c 



Pods 6 in. long, straight, thick, green splashed with crimson. Excellent for green shells 



carton 15c 



Pods 8 in. long, medium green, 

 for snaps and dry shell use 



slightly flattened, fleshy, of good quality. 



White seeds. Fine 

 carton 15c 



Definite resistance to rust. Dark green pods 7 to 9 in. long. White seeds. Strongly recom- 

 mended for sections where rust is prevalent. Our introduction carton 15c 



Pods 8 in. long and Yi to % in. wide. Used principally in northern section of Pacific Coast 



carton 15c 



Dark green pods 6 in. long desirable for snaps. Green shell beans very good. (See page 27 for 

 decorative use) carton 15c 



Abundant light green round pods about 6 in. 

 rows of corn 



long, fine grained, tender. 



Fine to grow among 

 carton 15c 



Tender, fleshy pods about 53^ in. long; dry beans clear white 

 dry beans for baking 



Long, dark green pods for snaps; seeds good for baking 

 fornia 



Green beans fine for snaps; 

 carton 15c 



Grown principally in Southern Cali- 

 carton 15c 



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Plants large, heavily productive. Four large, thick beans to a pod 



Pods 43^ in. long; 3 to 4 large, thick beans; dry beans white, flat. Standard large-seeded 

 lima carton 15c 



Smooth dark green pods; mostly 3 large flat beans to the pod. Very early and prolific. Fine 

 for home and market. Developed by U. S. Department of Agriculture. All-America 

 Award carton 15c 



Pods 4 to \Yi in. long. Three to four seeds. Dry beans white, very plump. The finest quality 

 lima bean carton 15c 



Large thick beans, 3 or 4 to the pod. Easy to shell. Finest flavor. Developed by U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture. All-America Award carton 15c 



Pods small; 3 to 4 small flat seeds; dry beans white. Popular in North because of earliness. 

 Excellent quality carton 15c 



Pods medium size. Four to five fairly thick, large beans. Dry beans marked brownish-red. 

 Popular in South carton 15c 



Similar to Henderson's Bush but seed coat and seed interior greenish. Attractive for can- 

 ning carton 15c 



Extremely heavy producer. Plants 10 to 15 ft. tall. Pods 5 to 6 in. long. Contain 4 to 6 

 large thick green beans carton 15c 



Pods in clusters. Beans buff, spotted reddish brown. Popular and dependable in South 



carton 15c 



Pods large, about 6 in. long. Four to five large, thick, white seeds. Improved form of Large 

 White Lima carton 15c 



Broad flat pods contain large flat beans of creamy green with deep red or maroon markings. 

 Needs long growing season carton 15c 



Pods Vyi in. long; 3 to 4 small seeds of splendid quality. Known as Pole Butter Bean of the 

 South carton 15c 



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