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VEGETABLE SEEO SPECIALTIES-^^ 



HENDEHSOn'S 

 EflHLIEST 



HedValeDtineBean. 



AMERICA'S STANDARD GREEN- 

 PODDED DWARF SNAP BEAN. 



Ready for picking in 43 days from 

 planting. Yields prodigiously. Full, round, 

 meaty pods of unsurpassed tenderness 

 and quality. 



'^T HIS grand variety is a great improvement over 

 ^^ the original Red Valentine, which it has now 

 entirely supplanted, and is very much eariier; 

 often ready to pick in forty-five days from sowing. 

 The healthy, vigorous plants are usually hardy, 

 successf ull}' withstanding early frosts : it may therefore 

 be planted ver}' earl}-. This, with its quick develop- 

 ment, makes it the earhest large-podded variety, 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 unsur- 

 passed tenderness when gathered young, when it is 

 practicalljr stringless. It is the Standard Snap Bean, 

 not onl}' for the earhest but for successive plantings, 

 bearing up to frost. {See cut.) Price, 10c. i pt., 

 20c. pt., 30c. qt., $1.50 pk., $4.75 bush. 



"/ bought half a pint of your Valentine Bush Beans last spring, 

 and gathered 4^ bushels for market, besides about 5 pecks we used in 

 the family."— JOHN B. BLACKIE, Altoona, Pa. 



" 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. 



" Straws show which 

 way the wind blows." 



"/ never had the pleas- 

 ure of growing such beans 

 as your Longfellow; we 

 have discarded all oth- 

 ers."— H. E. MARQUA- 

 RA T, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



"Your Longfellow Bean 

 is the finest and most 

 satisfactory bush bean 

 for private family use we 

 have ever had in over 

 thirty years of experi- 

 ence. We have no desire 

 to try for a better." 

 Mrs. BEN J. P. RENCH, 

 Oberlin, Ohio. 



"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 quan- 

 tity, and the vines are 

 still bearing heavily. I 

 am glad to endorse it; it 

 is the best bean I have 

 grown in twenty years' 

 practice." 



A. M. McTOSH, Fal- 

 mouth Foreside. Me. 



THE liOpGFEItliOW 



Green-Podded 



BUSH BEil]<. 



-RH EXTRA EflHiiV "QUniilTY" SriflP SHAN- 



Remarkably early. Exceedingly prolific. Lonii ^reen 

 pods, always solid, tender, and delicious flavor. 



'^T'HIS extra early variety, although comparatively new. 

 ^^ hasbeenpretty widely distributed, and we have yet 

 to hear anything but praise about its fine quality 

 and other merits fit is in fact an ideal snap bean, producing 

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

 averaging 6i inches long, wonderfulh^ tender and brit- 

 tle, without "a trace of tough interhning, and having no 

 string when broken, excepting when the pods are quite 

 old. The flavor is most dehcious, captivating the most 

 critical, while the dehcate green color of the pods is re- 

 tained after cooking, adding to its attraction when served. 

 The plants are of robust, compact habit, unexcelled in 

 bearing qualities, maturing the crop verj' 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. * pt., 20c. pt., 30c. qt.; 

 $1.80 pk., $6.50 bush. 



THE LONGFE-LLOW^ BUSH DEAN. 



