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HE tendency to exaggerate illustrations in seed catalogues has become so great that we have 

 decided to offer in future our novelties and leading specialties from actual copies of photo- 

 graphs taken during growth and those for 1892 will be found illustrated in this way on the first 

 sixteen pages of this book. While experienced gardeners can distingiiish these greatly 

 exaggerated cuts, that appear each season in so many catalogues, as readily as a bank clerk can 

 counterfeit money, yet there are, no doubt, some inexperienced amateurs who are humbugged and 

 deceived bv them. We have always deplored and discouraged such quackery and deception by instructing 

 our eno^ravers to follow nature as closely as possible in making all our cuts, therefore those that appear 

 on all our pages may be depended upon as being as accurate as it is possible to engrave them. 



GOLDEN-EYED BUTTER WAX BEAN — Photograph of an average plant. 



NEW QOLbEN-EYEb BUTTER W/IX PE/IN. 



THE EARLIEST AND BEST WAX BEAN FOR BOTH THE HOMEANO MARKET GARDEN. 



This fine new variety, which we offered last spring for the first time, is pronounced by leading 

 gardeners who have grown it, the earliest and most salable of any they have ever had. It is earlier than 

 the popular Wardwell's Kidney Wax and Golden Wax sorts. The vine grows vigorously about one and 

 a half feet, holding the great profusion of handsome pods well off the ground, thus keeping them 

 clean and attractive. The pods are flat, larger and handsomer than Golden Wax and remarkably free 

 from blight and rust It will pay every market or family gardener to plant a considerable portion of his 

 crops in it this season, as in quality, appearance and size It leaves nothing to be desired. Pkt., loc; 

 pint, 35c.; qt., 60c , post-paid ; qt., 45c.; peck, $2.25 ; bush., $8.00, by freight or express. 



OUR FREE FREniUnS FOR 1892-BOOKS ^ 5EEbS. 



We have several valuable novelties and new and improved varieties in vegetables, which have 

 never been offered for sale and will not under any circumstances be sold this season. We shall be glad, 

 however, to add one or more liberal seed packages free for trial to all customers whose orders indicate 

 an interest in new sorts. We also publish on page 21a complete list of the leading agricultural and 

 horticultural books, any of which can be had free with your vegetable and flower seed orders, as per 

 offers. The selection of any of these books as premiums does not prevent the selection of seeds to the 

 value of f 1.25 for each |r.oo sent us for seeds in packets, as per offer on page 22. 



