4 NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES, D. M. FERRY & CO.. DETROIT, MICH. 



Michigan White Wax Bean 



This splendid variety, introduced by us 

 in 1907, is now generally recognized as one 

 of the most valuable acquisitions yet added 

 to the list of bush or snap beans. Briefly 

 described it is a white seeded Golden Wax; 

 pods golden yellow and are fully as attractive 

 as our well known Golden Wax and of the 

 same exceptionally fine quality; vine is vig- 

 orous and unusually productive; seed white, 

 a most valuable feature heretofore unattained 

 in a bush bean of highest quality, ( See 

 further description, page 14) Pkt. 10c; Pt. 30c; 

 Qt. 45c; 4 Qts. $1.59; Bu. $9.00 



Carpinteria Pole Lima 



That this is "the most perfect pole 

 lima yet introduced" is the judgment 

 of Mr. Henry Fish who has for many 

 years been recognized as one of the 

 country's most skillful and experi- 

 enced growers of lima beans. Vine 

 strong, of vigorous growth, producing 

 an abundance of fine large pods usual- 

 ly closely filled with four beans of 

 largest size and much thicker than the 

 average pole lima. Color of the bean 

 is distinctive in having a decided 

 greenish tint, an indication of fine 

 quality. When cooked the beans are 

 very thin skinned, extremely tender 

 and of especially fine flavor. A splen- 

 did bean for the home and market gar- 

 den. Pkt. 15c; Pt.45c; Qt. 75c; 4 Qts. $2.75 



Ij beans are ordered by mail or express pre- 

 paid add 10 cents per pint, 15 cents 

 per quart for charges. 



OAKVIEW 



' ' Like does not always 

 produce like." This fact con- 

 stitutes at once the necessity for 

 a stock seed farm and its golden 

 opportunity. A single seed has 

 within itself an untold number 

 of varying tendencies inherited 

 from thousands of an- 

 cestors. The child of an 

 apparently perfect plant 

 may differ so radically 

 from its parents as to 

 constitute either a new 

 and different variety or 

 a degenerate resembling 

 a far remote wild an- 

 cestor. However, it is 

 possible and practicable 

 to intensify a given set 



of tendencies by breeding successively from only the most uniform individuals in each generation. 

 Thus the tendency to produce the particular type they represent is finally reasonably sure to overpower 

 all other and more scattering tendencies and the type is fixed. The difference between thoroughbred 

 and ordinary plants is as great as the difference between thoroughbred and ordinary animals. 



At Oakview we have 570 acres devoted to the development of thoroughbred stock seeds to be 

 used exclusively in producing the seeds we sell. Here are selected every season the choicest flowers 

 and vegetables. No pains are spared to save only the best. Unless these very expensive operations 

 are carried on through a series of years, plants cannot be made to approach uniformity in type. Since 

 no other seedsman possesses as great capital, as adequate facilities or as long experience, we are justi- 

 fied in saying no other seedsman can compete with us in the quality of seeds we sell any more than we 

 can sell our thoroughbred stocks for the prices charged for ordinary seeds. 



At Oakview, too, are produced either by deliberate cross-breeding or by accident many of the 

 new varieties which, after having been fixed in their characteristics by years of selection and proved to 

 be of greater value than old established kinds already on the market, are given to the world as novelties. 

 We are proud to say these introductions have, as a rule, remained long in popular favor. 



Carpinteria Pole Lima 



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