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Hendersons " Longfellow " Bean. 



REMARKABLY EARLY. EXCEEDINGLY PROLIFIC. 

 ROUND GREEN-PODDED BUSH BEAN OF FINE QUALITY. 



This extra early variety is an ideal snap bean, producing a fine crop of round, 

 straight, solid, fleshy pods averaging 6| inches long, wonderfully tender and brittle, 

 without a trace of tough interlining, and having no string when broken, excepting 

 when the pods are quite old. The flavor is most delicious, while the delicate green 

 color of the pods is retained after cooking, adding to its attractiveness when served. 

 The plants are of robust, compact habit, unexcelled in bearing qualities, maturing 

 the crop very 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, 25c. qt., $1.50 pk., $5.00 bush. 



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A prolific and con- 

 tinuous cropper. The 

 first in spring the last in fall. 



This superior variety, introduced into cultivation by us, is a 

 distinct improvement in green bush beans, and has become ex- 

 ceedingly popular wherever known. 



It is the first to give pods fit to pick in the spring, and the 

 last to yield edible pods in the fall; in fact, frost usually finds 

 mid-summer sown plants still in pod and blossom. 



The rich green pods are of immense size, thick, broad, extra 



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1 he rlodson BU sh bean. * 



Enormous Plants. Enormous Pods. 



Enormous Yielders. 

 Never Affected by Rust and Blight. 



This distinctive new type of bean is re- 

 markable for great size of plant and pod 

 and wonderful productiveness. Outyielding 

 any other bush bean two to one on a given 

 area. The strong, sturdy plants often at- 

 tain dimensions 2j feet in height, and bear 

 great quantities of long, meaty pods, mea- 

 suring 7to 8 inches in length. The ample 

 foliage sheltering the pods from the hot sun 

 renders them exceptionally tender, brittle, 

 and if picked before too old they are string- 

 less, and of fine quality. 



This variety is absolutely immune from 

 bean diseases. Not a trace of rust, 

 blight or mildew has ever appeared on a 

 plant or pod in our trial grounds or fields 

 during the years we have been growing 

 them. The Hodson Bush Beans come 

 in about 2 weeks after the earliest dwarf 

 varieties, and for main crops are destined 

 to become important for both the private 

 table and for market growers on account 

 of their phenomenal vigor and productive- 

 ness. The plants should be thinned out to 

 at least 6 inches apart in the rows on 

 account of their great size. (See cut.) 



Price, 25c. qt., $1.50 pk., $5.00 bush. 



There is also a Hodson Green Pod Bush 

 Bean. (See page 33.) 



H endersons BOUNTIFUL BUSH BEAN. 



long, very uniform in shape, solid, meaty, and of high quality, 

 tender and of excellent flavor; the pods are absolutely stringless 

 and entirely free from any tough, membraneous lining, not only 

 when young, but this tender quality is retained even after 

 maturity. This variety is coming into great demand among 

 truckers, who find that its handsome appearance and luscious 

 quality hold their customers. Price, 25c. qt., $1.50 pk., $5.00 bush. 



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