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F. E. McAllister, 22 dey st., new york.— novelties in vegetable seeds. 
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Thorburn's Valentine Wax Bean. 
FIRST IN EARLINESS, FIRST IN PRODUCTIVENESS, AND FIRST IN QUALITY 
This is an improved Extra EarJy Valentine Bean, with round wax pods. Originated with T. V. Maxou, the 
well-known cultivator, of Jefferson Co., N. Y. The type is so perfectly fixed that only one plant with green jiods 
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, tiie earliest Wax Bean in use, being earlier even than the Refuge Wax. Beans 
planted on June 18 produce 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 be justly called stringless. Certainly 
no other beau 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, akso, it excels any bean in cultivation. All who saw the field before harvest jn-o- 
nounced it the fullest podded field they had ever seen. The pods are well held up from the ground. 
Per pkt., 25c.; pt., 50c.; pint, 80c.; qt., $1.50. 
Keeney's Rustless Golden Wax Dwarf Bean. 
This new Bean, now first offered, combines hardiness and productiveness with fine quality ; is a vigorous bush 
variety, with entire freedom from rust. It puts forth short tendrils on which pods are formed, in addition to those 
near the central stalk of the plant, which accounts for i':s great productiveness, amounting, imder favorable con- 
ditions, to 100 to 150 fold. The pods, although flat when young, are meaty and well tilled, and semi-round later; of rich 
yellow color, fine quality, and entirely stringless, even when large enough to shell. If the pods are picked as fast as 
developed, the plant continues to furnish a bountiful supply for an unusually long season. 
Each packet contains an ounce of beans, sixty to seventy-five in number, and if planted singlv, ten inches apart 
in the row, and with the rows twenty-four to twenty-eight inches apart, two packets will produce, under favorable 
conditions, a suflicient supply for a family of six or eight persons. 
Per pkt. 15c. 
Burpee's White Wonder Cucumber. 
The cucumbers are thick- 
ly set throughout the leugtli 
of the vine and are uuiforns 
in color, shajje and size ; 
they aveiage about eight 
inches long by two to two 
and a half inches through; 
the skin is thin, but tough, 
and the pearly white flesh 
is exquisitely fine in quality, 
quite brittle, and remains 
solid for a long time. The 
color is always ivory white. 
Owing to unusual hardiness 
of constitution, the White 
Wonder can be planted 
earlier than most other 
Cucumbers, and is also a 
sure cropper. 
Per^pkt., lOc; oz., 15c.; J^llb., 50c.; [per lb., $1.50, postpaid. 
