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DUPUY & FERGUSON'S SEED ANNUAL 
When to be sent by post, add 5c. per lb. 
to list prices. 
BEANS 
One lb. will plant 50 feet of drill. One and 
one-half bushels will plant one acre. 
Plant in rows two feet apart, dropping the beans three inches apart and covering two inches. 
They thrive upon light soils, which should be carefully prepared and manured lightly. Being tender, 
they sliould not be planted until frosts are passed, as warm soil is needed, for their germination. For 
succession make plantings every two weeks until end of July. 
SCARLET RUNNER BEANS 
Mainly cultivated for their flowers, but the pods 
are also used as a culinary vegetable. Per pkt., 
5e.: lb.. 25c. 
DWARF BUTTER OR WAX SORTS 
BURPEE'S NEW KIDNEY WAX. _ More robust 
in g^rowth and more prolific than the popular 
Wardwell's Kidney Wax. — with longer pods, 
which are even more handsome in appearance, 
entirely stringless, more fleshy and, of much 
finer quality. The plants are of erect bush habit, 
reaching eighteen to twenty inches in height. 
Even during wet summers the foliage is entirely 
free from blight, while the pods are free from 
rust, which badly affects many of the older var- 
ieties. The fleshy pods are flattened in form, 
from six to seven inches in length, one-half 
inch broad and three-eights of an inch thick; 
the color is a rich lemon-yellow. Per lb., 25c. 
Horticuitural Wax. — One of the best for market 
gardeners; it does not rust; pods are always 
clear, waxy yellow. Must be picked quite young 
as pods become somewhat strlngv as they ma- 
ture. Dry bean is large, oval and not very thick. 
Nearly covered with splashes of bright red. 
Vines strong, robust and bear pods well up from 
the ground. Per lb., 25c. 
Burpee's White Wax. — The plants are exceed- 
ingly vigorous, enormously productive of long, 
handsome strlngless pods; very solid and full 
of meat; crisp, brittle and free from rust; clear 
light wavy yellow-colored pods; unequalled 
either for the table or for market use. Per lb., 
25c. 
Hodson Wax. — The plant is vigorous in growth 
and comes in to crop about two weeks later than 
the early .sorts. The pods of this variety often 
measure 7 to S inches in length and are remark- 
ably free from spot or rust, and for flavor Is 
unsurpassed. Per lb., 20c. 
Davis Kidney Wax. — Plant vigorous, and of com- 
pact upright growth, with pods extra long, 
straight, oval, of a clear, waxy, white color, often 
seven to eight inches in length. Per lb., 20c. 
Wardw/eli's Kidney Wax. — One of the best Wax 
Beans, bearing long pods of a delicate waxy yel- 
low, entirely stringless and brittle. Per lb., 20c. 
Keeney's Rustless Golden Wax. — The pods are 
meaty and well filled, thick, flat when young 
and semi-round later; of a rich yellow color and 
fine quality Per lb., 20c. 
Keeney's Refugee Wax. — This is a perfect Re- 
fugee, with long, round yellow wax-pods, which 
are very thick-meated, perfectly stringless and of 
very excellent flavor. Per lb., 20c. 
Currie's Rust Proof Wax. — Pods are long-, flat, 
straight and of a beautiful golden color. Per lb., 
20c. 
DWARF GREEN PODDED VARIETIES 
B URPEE'S STRINGLESS GREEN POD. _ Qne of 
the earliest and best of the stringless varieties. 
Pods very large, thick and straight. A fine vig- 
orous grower and very productive. Unsurpassed 
for the home garden where earliness and su- 
perior quality are desired. Per lb., 20c. 
Henderson's Bountiful. — The pods are of a rich 
green color, thick, long and very uniform. An 
immense cropper and perfectly stringless. Per 
lb., 20c. 
Early Red (Valentine). — Ready for picking in 45 
days from planting. Yields prodigiously. Full, 
round, meaty pods of unsurpassed tenderness 
and quality. Per lb., 15c. 
Early Refugee, or a Thousand to One. — An ex- 
cellent early snap bean, and for use as pickles. 
Per lb., 15c. 
Burpee's Bush Lima. — An immense yielder each 
bush bearing from fifty to two hundred pods, 
filled with beans which are identical in size and 
lui3cious flavor to the well-known pole Limas. 
Per lb., 25c. 
White Kidney. — Used as a cooking bean, dry. 
Per lb., 15c. 
BORECOLE OR KALE 
Sow early in Spring. Culture same as 
Cabbage. 
Dobble's Selected Victoria. — Grows about 
twenty-four inches high, and produces 
medium sized compact heads of leaves 
that are e.xqulsitely small mid-rib. Per 
pkt., 15c. 
Dwarf Green Curled Scotch. — Very hardy, 
one of the best. Per pkt., 5c.; oz., 15c. 
Tall Green Curled Scotch. — Pkt., 5c.; oz., 
15c. 
