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



IMPROVED BLACK WAX BEAN. 



IMPROVED HENDERSON BOSH LIMA. 



IMPROVED " HENDERSON - ' BUSH LIMA. 



OLD HOMESTEAD 

 POLE BEAN. 



fsmr VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



PRICES. 



{Add for free delivtry of 

 Beam, 10c. #.) 



BEANS. DWARF WAX-PODDED— Continued. 



Davis' Kidney Wax. One of the very best varieties for the Market Gardener. 

 Pods are 6 inches long, flat, generally straight, very attractive in color and 

 holds up in shipping better than any other variety 



Flageolet Wax. Valuable for either private use or market; very early and un- 

 usually free from rust, exceedingly productive; pods flat, often 12 inches 

 long, succulent and tender 



Golden Scimitar, Henderson's. A perfect type of large, round-podded wax Bean 

 the top notch of achievement in the development of this class 



Golden Wax Improved. {See specialties page 4.) 



Golden-Eyed Wax. An early, vigorous variety, free from rust and blight, 

 bearing abundantly beautiful, tender, large, flat, waxy-golden pods. It 

 grows H feet high, holding the pods well off the ground 



Hodson Long Pod Wax. {See specialties page 4.) 



Keeney's Rustless Wax. A vigorous wax-podded variety, wonderfully pro- 

 ductive, and tearing continuously for weeks, if the pods are picked as soon 

 as ready. The pods are thick and meaty, entirely stringless, tender and of 

 fine quality. The plant throws out long pod-bearing tendrils which appear 

 at first like runners 



Market Wax. Henderson's. (See specialties page 3) .... : - 



Refugee Wax. {See specialties page 3.) 



Wardwell's Kidney Wax. One of the best large-podded wax Beans. Very 

 robust and hardy, producing a heavy crop of showy, large, long, flat wax 

 pods, not liable to rust or blister 



Vosemite Mammoth Wax, Henderson's. A grand variety, yielding prodi- 

 giously immense golden-yellow, waxy pods 10 to 14 inches'long; they are 

 thick, meaty and absolutely stringless, cooking tender and delicious. It is a 

 robust growing sort, needing to be planted twice as far apart as ordinary bush 



Beans. Succeeds well on poor soils 



BEANS, BUSH LIMA. 



Improved " Henderson " Bush Lima. (See specialties page 5.) 



" Henderson " Bush Lima. {See specialties page 5.) 



Burpee's Bush Lima. {See specialties page 5.) 



Fordhook Bush Lima. {See page 5.) 



Dreer's Bush Lima. {See specialties page 5.) 



New Wonder Bush Lima, Dreer's. A distinct bush variety; plant and pod very 

 similar to Burpee's Busk, but earlier and a surer cropper; the shelled beans 



are handsome, tender and delicious. An acquisition 



BEANS, POLE LIMA. 



Early Leviathan Lima, Henderson's. {See specialties page 5.) 



Ideal, Henderson's. Not extra early, but it matures a tremendous crop before 

 frost in the vicinity of New York. It produces the largest Limas we have 

 seen, five to seven of these big, fat, buttery beans are contained in pods 

 averaging two-thirds of a foot long. The superb quality, tenderness and 

 rich flavor, combined with gigantic size of bean and productiveness, ^render 

 it the peer of any Lima grown ff or use eitherjgreenfor cured 



Large White Lima. The old favorite, universally grown for both family and 

 market use. The large, flat, kidney-shaped beans, shelled either green or 

 dried, are tender and delicious when cooked 



Potato Lima 



King of the Garden Lima 



Dreer's Improved Lima. A thick, almost round Bean of fine quality and a 

 large yielder; very early 



Small Lima, or Sieva. A small seeded variety of Large White Lima with small 

 pods, usually about 3 inches long; a little earlier and hardier 



BEANS. CLIMBING or POLE. 



Old Homestead. This variety we consider superior to all other green-podded 

 pole Beans; enormously productive, extra early and continuous bearer; large 

 green pods in great clusters, stringless and tender 



White Creaseback. One of the finest early pole Beans bearing in profusion 

 clusters of fleshy green pods, '5 to 6 inhces long, deeply creased, perfectly 

 stringless, tender and of superior quality used as a " snap " Bean. The 

 matured beans are pure white and excellent shelled 



Golden Champion, Henderson's. The leading wax-podded pole Bean, very 

 early and a great and continuous bearer of enormous, light yellow waxy 

 pods, absolutely stringless, brittle and tender; a healthy grower, free from 

 rust 



Early Golden Cluster. Begins bearing in July, continuing to produce abun- 

 dantly until frost large clusters of golden-yellow pods 6 to 8 inches long and 

 of delicious flavor. Valuable either as a shell or snap 



Horticultural or Speckled Cranberry. An old and popular variety, useful either 

 as a green-podded snap Bean or when shelled 



Scarlet Runner. Popular both for ornamental and culinary purposes. It 

 grows about 10 feet high; large scarlet flowers, followed by large green-podded 

 beans; used either as a snap Bean or shelled 



BEET. 



Arlington. Medium-sized, round, uniformly shaped, of deep blood-red color 

 quality sweet, tender and free from stringiness and bitterness 



Crimson Globe. The finest table Beet grown. Early, of medium size, uni- 

 formly round; color deep crimson throughout, exceedingly tender and sweet 

 and a good keeper. (See specialties page 6.) 



Crosby's Egyptian. (See specialties page 6.) (25 lbs. @ 45c. lb.) 



Quart. 



Pkt. 

 .10 



.10 

 .05 



J. 25 



.30 



.30 

 .25 



.25 

 .30 



35 



.35 



$1.50 



1.80 



1.60 

 1.50 



1.40 

 1.75 



1.40 

 1-50 

 1.50 



1.30 



2.25 



.30 

 .30 



.30 



.30 

 .25 



.30 



Peck. 



35 



2.25 



30 



2.00 



30 



2.00 



60 



3.25 



30 



2.00 



30 



2.00 



35 



2.25 



2.50 



25 



1.75 



30 



2.00 



30 



1.80 



35 



2.00 



25 



1.75 



Oz 

 .10 



.10 

 .10 



2.00 

 2.00 



2.00 



2.00 

 1.70 



1.75 



iLb. 



.15 



.20 

 .20 



The Superiority of Henderson's Seeds, Plants, Bulbs, etc., £»£■ 65 Highest Awards at the Columbian and Pan=American Expositions 



