Our Special Quality Stocks 
of the following varieties cannot be excelled. These varieties are the choice 
of the standard sorts and used extensively by the most successful 
market gardeners and truck farmers. 
MICHIGAN WHITE WAX BEAN 
Golden Self Blanching Celery 
This variety is used almost entirely by the large growers in the famous 
Irondequoit, N. Y., celery growing section. For winter use planting 
is done about July 1st. As the money returns are large from a crop of 
good quality it is very important to use only the best grade of seed, 
that which will produce a crisp, high flavored stalk free from pith or 
strings. Our strain of French grown seed cannot be excelled. 
See description on page 56. 
Michigan White Wax 
This splendid variety is 
one of the earliest dwarf. 
_ snap beans, and may be 
briefly described as a white seeded Golden Wax but in several vital features it is 
distinctly superior to that excellent and exceedingly popular variety. The vine is 
a little larger, more robust and vigorous; foliage a little heavier. The handsome 
pods are produced in greater abundance and are very uniform in size and color 
which is very attractive light golden yellow; pods four and one half to five inches 
long, comparatively broad, meaty and of the same superior quality as our Golden 
Wax. Seed medium sized, oval, clear white. This last feature alone gives the 
variety a very decided advantage over all other early wax podded beans in that as 
snaps they cook without discoloring and thus are more attractive on the table, 
while as dry beans they are very handsome and quite as useful as any of the staple 
white beans. We believe canners have never been offered a bean so fully meeting 
their requirements as to earliness, color and splendid quality. 
Columbia 
An early maturing sort of most excellent 
shape and quality for the home market and 
private garden, The plant is of medium 
height hut very stocky and heavy. The stalks are thick, almost round, 
resembling in shape those of Giant Pa&al. The color, however, has 
in it more of the rich yellow tint of Golden Yellow Self Blanching, 
which variety it resembles very much in appearance when trimmed 
and hunched for market. The outer foliage of the plant when growing 
is rather light green with tinge of yellow, becoming when blanched 
yellow with tinge of green. The heart when properly blanched changes 
from yellow with tinge of green to a light golden yellow. In season it 
follows in close succession Golden Yellow Self Blanching. Our strain 
of Columbia has no superior in beauty of golden shading, solidity and 
size of stalk. We consider it unsurpassed in its rich nutty flavor. 
Introduced in 1906. 
Bountiful 
This excellent dwarf, green podded sort is similar in 
appearance to Early Yellow Kidney Six Weeks but is of 
much better quality. The vines are vigorous and product- 
ive. The pods are very long six to seven inches, straight, broad, flat, of handsome 
appearance and absolutely stringless for snaps. They are tender and brittle much 
longer than most sorts. The pods are longer, broader and have longer tips than 
those of Long Yellow Six Weeks. Seed medium sized, slender, light yellow with 
brownish circle about eye. Bountiful is a most desirable early sort for snaps for the 
home garden. 
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Early Detroit Tomato ^SS8l3ttS 
of the early purplish 
pink tomatoes. The vines are vigorous and very productive. The 
fruits are very smooth, uniform in size, nearly globe-shaped, firm and 
of excellent quality. Early Detroit is one of the most valuable ship- 
ping tomatoes yet produced. It is also desirable for the home garden 
and near markets. 
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