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PETER HENDERSON A; CO., NEW YORK- (^ 



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"STRAWS SHOW 

 WHICH WAY THE 

 WIND BLOWS" 



"Last year I had your 

 Longfellow Beans. I have 

 never had the pleasure of 

 growing such beans as they 

 were. We have discarded 

 all others and will use none 

 but the Longfellow here- 

 after." 

 H. E. MARGUARDT, 



Cincinnati, 0. 



"I think there is no better A 



Bean than your Longfellow." q 



JOSEPH SCHOFF, y 

 Peoria, III. 



"Gen'l Brown's family 

 have discarded every other 

 bean; the only bean they 

 will have on the table is 

 Longfellow. From four 

 rows I have been gathering 

 daily for three weeks in 

 large quantities, and the 

 vines are still bearing heavi- 

 ly. I am glad to endorse 

 it; it is the best bean I have 

 grown in twenty years' 

 practice. " 



A. M. McTOSH, 

 Falmouth Foreside, Me. 



HENDERSON'S EARLIEST 



RED VALENTINE 



^= BEAN =: 



America's standard Green-Podded Dwarf Snap Bean 

 Ready for picking 45 days from planting Yields prodigiously 

 Full, round, meaty pods of unsurpassed tenderness and quality 



THIS grand variety is a great improvement over the 

 original Red Valentine, which it has now entirely sup- 

 planted, as it is very much earlier- often being ready to 

 pick in forty-five days from sowing. The healthy, vigorous 

 plants are unusually hardy, successfullyi withstanding early 

 frosts; it may therefore be planted'- very early. This, with 

 its quick development, makes it the earliest large-podded va- 

 riety, and on this account it is extensively grown by truckers 

 over wide sections of the country, though it is equally desirable 

 for home gardens. 



It will always yield a large crop of handsome, long, round, 

 fleshy pods, rich green in color and of unsurpassed tenderness 

 when gathered young, when it is practically stringless. It is 

 the vStandard Snap Bean, not only for the earliest but for 

 successive plantings, bearing up to frost. {See cut.) Price, 

 10c. pkt., 20c. pt., 30c. qt., $1.00 for four qts., $1.75 pk. 



"From half-a-pint of your Valentine Bush Beans we gathered 6}4: bushels of pods besides allowing some to mature for seed." 



JOHN B. BLACKIE, Altoona. Pa. 

 " We have been using your Valentine Bush Beans for some time while the String Beans of our neighbors are only in blossom." 



Mrs. JAMES STORM, Gallipolis, Ohio. 

 " Your Valentine Snap Beans were a marvel for uniform maturity and earliness: the best word in my vocabulary I am glad to 

 say in their favor ." A. O'HOLLORAN, Lynchburg, Va. 



The Longfellow podEeS Bush Bean 



An Extra Early, Round Green-Podded Bush Bean of Fine Qyality Remarkably Early Exceedingly Prolific 



Long, Round Green Pods Always Solid, Tender, and of Delicious Flavor 



THIS 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, producing 

 a fine crop of round, straight, solid, fleshy pods averaging 

 6}4 inches long, wonderfully tender and brittle, without a 

 trace of tough interlining, and having no string when broken, 

 excepting when the pods are qtiite 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 attrac- 

 tiveness when served. The plants are of robust, compact 

 habit, unexcelled in bearing 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. {See cut.) Price, 10c. pkt., 20c. pt., 30c. qt., $1.00 

 for four qts., $1.75 pk. 



"/( may interest you to know that some Longfellow Beans purchased from 

 you this spring turned out magnijicenlly to the surprise of my farmer friends 

 who have been in the habit of planting anything without regard to quality, 

 'anything being good enough' for them. I think my little missionary work 

 in the seed line has convinced them that the best is the cheapest in the end." 

 D. A. NISBITT, Nyack. N. Y. 



Beans, Peas and Corn we do not deliver free, but will do so if 5c. per pt. or 10c. per qt. is added to the prices 



