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We again thank our Customers for the many kind letters of appreciation and reports of prize exhibits 
sent to us last autumn. Our stock is again highly selected and grown under our personal 
supervision, and we would warn our customers against the many substitutions now on 
the market. 
Not only is this Bean of the utmost importance as a prize winner, but its smooth and tender texture places 
it far above all other scarlet runners. Its large, handsome pods, often measuring 15^ inches, hang in great 
clusters, and it has been estimated that the produce from Carters Scarlet Emperor is twice as great in bulk as 
may be expected from the ordinary type of scarlet runner, and all of the most refined quality. 
The Right Hon. Viscount Midleton’s Head Gardener says : — ' ■ Scarlet Emperor Runner Bean. This variety has 
done wonderfully well again this year, and although such an adverse season, it has set better lhan ever, having very fine large 
clusters, with long, straight, handsome pods, measuring over 12 inches. For the exhibition stand it cannot be excelled, and should 
rank in the estimation of those who have come in contact with it as the finest bean in cultivation.” — Mr. Quainton, The Gardens, 
Peper Harrow Park, Godaiming. 
The Right Hon. Viscount Portman’S Head Gardener says: — “Without doubt the finest Runner Bean ever 
introduced. It is a prodigious cropper, having straight pods from 12 to 15 inches in length, produced in abundance on each 
raceme.” — Mr. Prinsep, The Gardens, Buxted Park. 
Sir Edmund Loder, Bart.’s Head Gardener says: — “Avery fine variety which bears most profusely, and quite the 
finest Runner Bean. I have measured plenty 12 inches in length on stalks bearing a dozen beans. What would they be if thinned.” — 
Mr. W. A. Cook, The Gardens, Leonardslee. 
Sir Henry D. Ingleby, Bart.’s Head Gardener writes : — “Your Scarlet Emperor Runner Bean has done wonderfully 
well with me ; it is very free setting and a good cropper. I have had a quantity of pods 14 and 15 inches long, and they have been 
quite tender right up to the last.” — Mr. II. Fox, The Gardens, Ripley Castle, Yorks. 
Admiral Walker’s Head Gardener writes Your Runner Bean, Scarlet Emperor, is indeed an eye opener. It was 
admired by all who saw it here, the attraction being the length of the pods, which were from 10 to 14 inches long, in bunches of six to 
eight pods, even in growth, good in colour, with a smoothness and an absence of curled-up pods not found in other sorts. Another 
recommendation is its long season in growth, I made my first gathering in July, and to-day (Oct. 19th) I gathered fine tender pods, 
when other sorts had finished a fortnight ago grown under the same conditions.” — Mr. G. Davison, Beverley Hall Gardens, Yorks. 
RAYNES PARK, LONDON, SAV.-1912. 
