VEGETABLE SEEDS 



Beckert's Seed Store, 101 and 103 Federal St., N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa. 



BY ALL MEANS GROW BEANS ! Those that you do not use green may remain on the plants, to be picked when dry, as "Shell Beans." 

 Withal, Beans are the easiest vegetables to grow and actually enrich the soil in nitrogen, while bearing the crop 



Yellow- or Wax-Podded Bush Beans 



The Best Flat-Podded Kinds 



Sure-Crop Stringless Wax (s« illustration) 



Perhaps the most thoroughbred Hat-podded Wax Bean yet introduced. In its general 

 characteristic of dependability it compares favorably with Bountiful among the green- 

 podded varieties. It produces its handsome, 6-inch pods in from 60 to 65 days after seed 

 is sown, rhe plants are hardy, rust- and blight-resistant. The pods arc of rich yellow 

 color, flat but thick through, perfectly stringless, and of finest quality. In our competi- 

 tive trials Sure-Crop Stringless W ax has outyielded the old Wardwell's Kidney Wax two 

 to one. While Wardwell's is the dependable standby with market-gardeners throughout 

 the country today, we predict that Sure-Crop Stringless Wax will make many more 

 friends, especially among home-gardeners. Our stock is extra fine, coming from the 

 originator of this matchless variety, Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 40 cts., qt. 75 cts., 2 qts. $1.45. 



Wardwell's Kidney Wax. An excellent early variety which for years has been highly 

 esteemed by market-growers as the standard of excellence for family trade. Its creamy yellow 

 pods average 6 inches long, are broad, decidedly flat but brittle and stringless. Wardwell's 

 Kidney Was has proven its reliability under widely varying soil and weather conditions. It 

 surely is a good Bean to pin your faith to. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 35 cts., qt. 65 cts., 2 qts. $1.25. 



Currie's Rustproof. Rustproof. Pods long, flat, tender, and of good quality. Extra 

 early. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 35 cts., qt. 65 cts., 2 qts. $1.25. 



Davis Kidney Wax. Distinctly a market-gardener's variety and an excellent shipper. It 

 is stringless while young. The exceedingly straight, handsome pods make it an excellent va- 

 riety lor marketing, and it bears them in good quantities. While young, the pods are of ex- 

 cellent flavor. This is one of the earliest Wax Beans in cultivation, but has only a short 

 season of bearing. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 35 cts., qt. 65 cts., 2 qts. $1.25. 



The Best Round-Podded Sorts 

 Round-Pod Brittle Wax 



This we like to call a round-podded brother to 

 ure-Crop Stringless Wax, although in yielding 

 ualities none of the round-podded varieties measure 

 up to the standards of the flat-podded kinds. 

 Brittle Wax is perhaps the handsomest of all 

 round-podded Wax Beans and is surely of super- 

 lative quality. 



It starts bearing 6-inch pods 60 days after 

 planting the seed and continues to bear for the 

 greaterpart of a month. On rich soil, plants make 

 quite a vigorous growth and Beans should be 

 dropped 5 to 6 inches apart, otherwise the plants 

 will crowd each other in the row to such an ex- 

 tent as to injure the bearing possibilities. This 

 holds good, more or less, in connection with all 

 our best Bush Beans. Brittle Wax is perfectly 

 FN stringless, even after it becomes old and over- 

 grown. If you prefer a round-podded to a flat- 

 podded Bean, you make no mistake in choosing 

 Brittle Wax for either home- or market- 

 garden. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 40 cts., qt. 75 cts., 

 2 qts. $1.45. 



Hardy Wax. A very prolific kind of unusual 

 disease-resistance. It also stands cold, disagree- 

 able weather better than most kinds, and for 

 this reason may be planted a week or so sooner. 

 Hardy Wax is as prolific as Brittle Wax des* 

 cribed above, but the pods average shorter, 

 they are of a brighter yellow color. We consider 

 Wax one of the most dependable round-podded 

 ir the home-garden, especially in northern sections. 

 Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 35 cts., qt. 65 cts., 2 qts. $1.25. 



Pencil-Pod Black Wax. The best strain of German 

 Black Wax in cultivation today. It is hardy and very 

 productive. The poas average 5 to inches long, varying from straight to slightly 

 curved, are purely saddle-backed, and of excellent stringless quality at all stages. 

 In productiveness it compares very favorably with both Hardy Wax and Brittle 

 Wax. Pkt. 10 cts., pt. 35 cts., qt. 65 cts., 2 qts. $1.25. 



Sure-Crop Stringless Wax Beans 

 BE4NS, PEAS AND CORN IN PACKETS 

 Mailed at catalogue prices 



Let Us Have Better Gardens! 



One of the reasons why, as a nation, we have made comparatively little progress in the matter of home 

 gardening is that we are very indifferent when it comes to keeping records. To most of us it seems 



enough to dig the ground, to rake, to sow the seeds and cultivate the crops without "worrying" much about anything else outside of gathering of crops in due 

 time. Yet, year after year customers call at our store and wish to know what that fine Bean was, or that splendid Lettuce, which they bought from us the 

 preceding season, since they wish to grow some more just like it. Where customers do not take the precaution of saving the bags or containers in which 

 the seeds come, we suggest the use of record labels in the garden, a practice eminently desirable and further explained and illustrated on page 8 



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