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CARTERS SCARLET EMPEROR RUNNER BEAN. 
Carters Scarlet Emperor has been gaining Prizes throughout the Kingdom, over 100 
have already been kindly reported by our Customers. 
Carters Scarlet Emperor has fully maintained its great reputation ; one enthusiastic 
gardener shows it to a neighbour and so its popularity increases each season, and our sales of 
this striking novelty have more than doubled each year. From our observations and the reports 
that we have received Carters Scarlet Emperor has been well represented and much discussed 
at exhibitions all over Great Britain. 
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. 
Those who have seen this Bean in growth have been astonished at its prolific habit, and 
we feel confident as it becomes known all older types will be abandoned, as the value in quality 
and productiveness will be immediately recognised as an investment. 
We respectfully 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 procuring inferior 
substitutions from other sources. 
His Grace The Duke of Portland’s Head Gardener says : — “I have given an extended trial 
to Carters Scarlet Emperor this season, and I am pleased to say that it has more than ever borne out the good 
opinion I had of it last season. It is a splendid cropper, with long narrow pods, with a splendid dark green colour. 
It also has much less of the coarse skin usual in Runner Beans.” — Mr. James Gibson, The Gardens, Welbeck. 
His Grace The Duke of Buccleuch’s Head Gardener says: — “Carters Scarlet Emperor liean 
is a strong grower, flowers very freely, and is promising well.” — Mr. Whytock, The Gardens, Dalkeith. 
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. 
The Right Hon. The Earl of Eldon’s Head Gardener says: — “I am more than pleased 
with your Scarlet Emperor Bean. I never saw anything like it before, it is exactly as you describe it in your 
catalogue.” — Mr. J. King, The Gardens, Shirley Park. 
The Right Hon. The Earl of Jersey’s Head Gardener says: — “Your Scarlet Emperor 
Runner Beans have done splendid. I have never seen any to equal them in height or size of pods ; the 
best I know." — Mr. A. W. Perry, The Gardens, Middleton Park, Bicester. 
The Right Hon. The Earl of Lathom’s Head Gardener says Carters Scarlet Emperor 
Runner Beans are the most refined Bean for exhibition with which I am acquainted.” — Mr. Ben Ashton, The 
Gardens, Lathom House 
The Right Hon. The Earl of Sandwich’s Head Gardener says: — ■“ Scarlet Emperor has 
been magnificent, I gathered beans 12 inches long under ordinary treatment.” — Mr. Hansford, The Gardens, 
Hooke Court, Beaminster. 
The Right Hon. Viscount Midleton’s Head Gaidener says: — “Height 12 feet, haulm 
very strong, of an extra dark nature. 1 consider this bean to be the largest in cultivation and a very prolific 
bearer. I have had pods over 1 foot long, and they hang in very large clusters. The flavour when cooked is 
distinct, and for exhibition cannot be beaten.”— Mr. Quainton, The Gardens, I’eper Harrow Park, Godaiming. 
The Right Hon. Lord Poltimore’s Head Gardener says As good as ever, one may safely 
say the very finest Bean in cultivation.”— Mr Si.ade, The Gardens, Poltimore, Exeter. 
• Sir Edmund Loder, Bart.’S, Head Gardener says : — “ A very fine variety which bears most pro- 
fusely, and quite the finest Runner Bean. I have mcasuied plenty 12 inches in length on stalks bearing a dozen 
beans. What would they be if thinned?” — Mr. W. A. Cook, Leonardslee. 
“Carters Scarlet Emperor Runner Bean is an extremely free bearer, and its colour, shape, size, and 
straightness, put it right in the first place as a market variety.” — Mr. Lawson, The Gardens, Horticultural 
College, Swanley. 
THE LONG SMOOTH-PODDED SCARLET RUNNER. 
Price 4s. 6d. per quart; 2s. 6d. per pint; Is. per packet. 
>37, »3 8 . & 97, High Holborn, London.— 1909 
