PETER HENDERSON & CO.. NEW YORK.— WHOLESALE CATALOGUE. 



^HENDERSON'S: 



Earliest Red Valentine Bean. 



AMERICA'S STANDARD GREEN- 

 PODDED DWARF SNAP BEAN. 



Ready for picking in 45 days from planting. Yields 

 prodigiously. Full, round, meaty pods of un- 

 surpassed tenderness and quality. 



"T~HIS grand variety is a great improvement over the 

 original Red Valentine, which it has now entirely 

 supplanted, being fully ten days earlier; often ready to 

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

 orous plants are unusually hardy, withstanding frost 

 that kill other varieties; it may therefore be planted 

 very early. This, with its quick development, makes 

 it the earliest large-podded variety, and on this account 

 it is extensively grown by truckers, over wide sections of 

 the country. 



It produces a large crop of handsome, long, round fleshy 

 pods, rich green in color and of unsurpassed tenderness 

 and quality when gathered young, when it is practically 

 stringless. It is the Standard Snap Bean, not only for 

 the earliest but for successive plantings, bearing up to 

 frost. (See cut.) Price, 26c. qt., $1.10 pk., $3.75 bush. 



" Your Earliest Red Valentine Snap Beans were a marvel of uni- 

 form maturity and earliness." A. 0' H ALLORAN ', 



Lynchburg, Va. 

 " Your Earliest Red Valentine Beans are such nice stock that I want 

 another bushel and a half of them." C. M. BERRY, 



Orlando, Fla. 



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This is one of the very best green podded varieties for the market 

 gardener. It is ready at the same time as the Earliest Red Valentine, 

 and two weeks earlier than the Late Refugee, or 1000 to 1. The plant 

 has the true Refugee habit, bearing a mass of small leaves, which shelter 

 the pods from hot suns. The pods are round, almost straight, fleshy 

 and solid, and of remarkable uniformity in size. It is a prodigious 

 cropper, and an excellent shipper, and is popular on all markets and 

 of excellent quality in every respect. Price, 25c. qt., $1.25 peck, $4.00 

 bushel. 



Refugee, or "lOQQtol." 



The most prolific dwarf, 

 green-podded Snap Bean. 



A VERY popular market gardeners' vari- 

 ** ety on account of its exceeding produc- 

 tiveness. It is extensively grown both in the 

 north and south for a fall crop. The plants 

 are of healthy, robust growth, about 15 inches 

 high, of true branching bush growth. The 

 pods are of attractive appearance, round, 

 long and slim, of light green color, fleshy, 

 solid and brittle, with but slight string and 

 of tender and mild flavor. This type of 

 bean is the most popular in the markets of 

 the large cities and it is also extensively used 

 for picking. Our strain of Refugee is very 

 fine. (See cut.) Price, 20c. qt., $1.10 pk., 

 $3.75 bush. 



' Save me 2 bushels of the same strain of Refugee 

 Beans that you supplied me last season. You would be 

 w prised to learn what the two acres of them netted me. 

 They were the finest I ever saw." 



JOHN E. DINTING ER. 

 Norfolk, Va. 



HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR SEEDS RETAIN 

 OUR CUSTOMERS FOR DECADES. 



"/ have dealt now with your firm for over 30 years, and I safely assert that after trying various other 

 seedsmen during that period, I have always returned to Peter Henderson & Co., as the most reliable firm 

 in its dealings." JOHN F. W1ELANDY, Santa Fe. New Mexico, 



