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Beans, Pole or Running 
Haricots a Barnes. Stanr/en Sohnen. Frijole Vaslaga. 
One pound will plant fifty hills; thirty pounds will plant an acre. The soil should be mellow, rich a<.d 
warm. Lay the ground out in hills 4 feet apart each way, and set poles eight or ten feet long firmly in the 
hills before putting in the seed. Plant five or six beans in a hill, and cover about two inches deep; leave three- 
healthy plants at each pole, and when a few inches high draw a little earth around them as support. They 
may also be grown without poles, leaving the vine to run. Use the cultivator freely to keep the soil mellow 
and clean. 
Dreer's Lima. Smaller beans, but earlier and more prolific than Large Lima, per pkt., 10 cts.;perlb., 
15cts.; per 100 lbs., 2^10. 
Dutch Case Knife. One of the earliest; a splendid green shell bean, also a fine dry bean for winter use; 
very productive; a good bean for planting among corn, per pkt., 10 cts; per lb., 15 cts; per 100 lbs., $9. 
Golden Cluster Wax. Undoubtedly the earliest pole variety. Everyone is surprised at their beautiful 
appearance and productiveness. The pods are from six to eight inches long_, borne in clusters of from 
three to six, and are most freely produced; stringless, very tender and of delicious flavor, per iJkt., 10 cts; 
per lb., 20 cts; per 100 lbs., $15. 
Horticultural or Speckled Cranberry. Popular old favorite; useful either green or dried, per pkt., 10 
cts; per lb., 15 cts; per 100 lbs., $12. 
Large White Lima. Always popular, and only surpassed by other sorts in earliness, per pkt., 10 cts; per 
lb., 15 cts; per 100 lbs., $9. 
Old Homestead. A splendid early vigorous and enormously productive variety, the pods hanging in great 
clusters from top to bottom of pole; succulent and delicious, per pkt., 10 cts; per lb., 20 cts; per 100 lbs., $10. 
Scarlet Runners. Ornamental and useful; produces brilliant scarlet flowers, and the beans are used either 
green or shelled, per pkt., 10 cts; per lb., 20 cts., per 100 lbs., $15. 
Yard Long or Cuban Asparagus. Produces pods of extraordinary length, sometimes over two feet, and 
so abundantly as almost to conceal the foliage of the vine, per pkt., 15 cts; per lb., 50 cts. 
Beans, English 
Feve de ilarais. Orosse Bohnen. Saba. 
One pound will sow fifty feet of drill. Select a warm situation, and plant two inches deep in double rows, 
allowing four inches between the two lines forming the row and three feet between the double rows. Pinch 
out the top when the bloom shows strong, and keep the ground well cultivated and clean. 
Broad Windsor. Superior to all other types of this class of beans, per lb., 10 cts; per 100 lbs., $6. 
Early Mazagan. Smaller than the preceding; hardy and productive, per lb., 10 cts; per 100 lbs., $6. 
Beets 
B12ET — (liDMANO'S). 
Beiterave. Munketrvhen. Bemolacha. 
One ounce will sow fifty feet of drill; five pounds will sow an 
acre. Kich, deep soil not too recently manured is best for this crop; 
sow about one inch deep in drills fifteen inches apart, and when well 
established, thin the plants to six inches apart in the rows. 
Dewing's Extra Early Turnip. Flesh deep blood-red, tender and 
sweet, per oz., 10 cts; yer ilb., 25 cts; per lb., 75 cts. 
Early Bassano. Very early; flesh ])ink, zoned with white, sweet and 
tender when young, per oz., 10 cts; per ^ lb., 25 cts; per lb., 75 cts. 
Early Blood Tui-nip. Dark red, tender, and keeps well, per oz., 10 
cts; per ^Ib., 20 cts; per lb., (iO cts. 
Eclipse. Extra early, uniform shape, bright red, fine grained and 
delicious, per oz.," 10 cts;per Jib., 25 cts; per lb., 75 cts. 
Edniand's. Handsome shape; flesh of a dark blood-red, sweet and 
tender, per oz. 10 cts; per ilb., 25 cts; per lb., 75 cts. 
Egyptian Blood Turnip. Well-known variety, of a rich, deep crim- 
son color, per oz., lOcts; per .^Ib., 20ets; per lb., 60 cts. 
Long Smooth Blood. An excellent large, late variety, per oz., 
10 cts; per Jib., 20 cts; per lb., 60 cts. 
Swiss Chard. Known also as Silver or Sea Kate Beei. Cultivated only 
for its leaves, the mid-ribs of which are cooked like asparagus, 
per oz., 10 cts; per Jib., 25 cts; per lb., 75 cts. 
Don't fail to try Golden Cluster Wax Bean. 
