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J. M. Thorburn & Co., 15 John St., New York. 



New, Rare and Valuable Vegetable Seeds. 



Bean, Thorburn Valentine Wax. 



First in Earliness, First in Prodnctiveness, and First in Quality. 



This is an improved Extra Early Valentine Bean, with round wax pods. Originated with T. V. Maxon, 



the well-known cultivator, of Jefferson Co., N. 

 Y. The type is so perfectly fixed that only one 

 plant with green pods was found in the field, and 

 that was probably from a stray Bean. It grows 

 only about 15 inches high, with a strong stalk 

 and an abundance of foliage. It is without any 

 exception the earliest Wax Bean in use, being 

 even earlier than our Refugee Wax. Beans 

 planted on June 18 produced pods 4 inches long 

 by July 25, and on August 1 half a crop could 

 be picked. The pods are very meaty, and with 

 so very little string that they may justly be 

 called stringless. Certainly no other Bean has 

 less string or less hard shell to the pod as long 

 as they are suitable for cooking. It is the best 

 quality for snap Beans of any Wax Bean in use. 

 It is remarkably free from rust, and remains a 

 long time without becoming tough. Combined 

 with these valuable features of extreme earliness 

 and excellence of quality is its enormous pro- 

 ductiveness. In this respect, also, it excels any 

 Wax Bean in cultivation. All who saw the 

 field before harvest pronounced it the fullest 

 podded field they had ever seen. The pods are 

 well held up from the ground. Per qt., 30 cts. 



Bean, Keeney Rustless Golden "Wax. 



THORBURN VALENTINE WAX BEAN. 



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Combines hardiness and productiveness with 

 fine quality. A strong-growing bush variet 

 of remarkable vigor and freedom from rust 

 sends out short tendrils, on which pods are 

 formed in addition to those near the central stalk of the plant, which accounts for its wonderful productive- 

 ness, amounting, under favorable conditions, to 100 or 150 fold. The pods are meaty and well filled, thick, flat 

 when young, and semi-round later; of rich yellow color, fine quality, and stringless, even when large enough 

 to shell. If the pods are picked as fast as formed, the plant continues to furnish a bountiful supply for an 

 unusually long season. Per pt. , 25 cts. ; per qt., 40 cts. 



Bean, Marvel of Paris* 



A splendid early dwarf Snap Bean, very vigorous, and of remarkably great and prolonged productiveness. 

 Pods green, long and slender ; tender and of excellent quality. Per pt., oo cts. ; per qt., 35 cts. 



Beet, Black Queen. 



A splendid half-long blood Beet of the finest table quality, 

 with beautiful dark blood-red foliage, thus combining the 

 useful and the ornamental. Oz., 20 cts. 



Melrose Sweet Corn. 



A new sort obtained by inter-crossing the best early 

 varieties and selecting for seed the earliest and largest 

 earj,. This process was kept up for several years, and 

 t!ie result is a Sweet Corn as early as the Early Cory, with 

 ears twice as large, and producing two to three ears to 

 the stalk. On account of its sweetness, earliness, size of 

 ears and productiveness, this is the best of all for market 

 purposes. Per qt., 25 cts. 



Cucumber, Thorburn \ 896 Pickler* 



This is a strain of the well-known Green Prolific, or 

 Boston Pickling, which has been improved for several 

 years with the view of obtaining all the qualities desired 

 for pickling purposes. In size, symmetry, slimness, color 

 and prodnctiveness, this can now be justly called a perfect 

 pickler. Per oz., 15 cts.; per lb., $1.50. 



Egg-Plant, Improved New York "White* fg 



This new variety possesses all the desirable qualities 

 of the well-known New York Purple, but instead of being 

 dark purple it is pure white. It is very striking and hand- 

 some in appearance, of large size and regular, oval form ; 

 fine quality. Per pkt. , 10 cts. ; per oz. , 50 cts. 



EGG-PLANT, IMPROVED NEW YORK WHITE. 



