GEO. COOLING &. SONS, BATH. 
FRENCH or KIDNEY BEANS. 
cooung's nf. plus ui.tra. 
Cultivation. — The Dwarf varieties may be sown Irom the middle of April 
to the end of July in rows 2 feet apart ; if dry weather sets in water copiously 
The most suitable time for sowing the tall varieties is during the month of M.ay, 
in rows 4 feet wide, and the seed 2 inches deep. 
Dwarf Varieties. Perquart-s 
COOLING’S “NE PLUS ULTRA.” Selected stock. This 
variety has now established itself as the earliest and most 
productive Dwarf Bean in cultivation ; it is unequalled 
for forcing or first sowing out of doors, being at least ten 
days earlier than Osboi'n’s and other well-known early 
kinds. This fine Dwarf Bean has been awarded more 
Certificates of Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society 
after the Chiswick trials than any other variety 2 
d. 
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EVERBEARING, dwarf, robust and bushy, should be allowed 
plenty of room for growth ; the pods are dark green in 
colour and delicious in flavour; marvelously productive 
and extremely early... 2 0 
CANADIAN WONDER, heavy cropper, pods 9 to 12 inches, 
an abundant bearer and tender 1 f 
MONSTER LONG ■ PODDED NEGRO or BLACK 
CANADIAN WONDER, a valuable variety of robust 
habit 
NEGRO LONG-PODDED, one of the best for general crop 
OSBORN’S FORCING, prolific, fine for forcing 
SION HOUSE, fine for forcing 
SUTTON’S SUPERLATIVE, 
ducing exce])tioi ally fine 
compact in growth and 
foliage 
an abundant cropper, pro 
i-pint packets 1/ 
1 ti 
0 10 
1 0 
1 0 
butter beans or GOLDEN WAX POD. 
This class is much esteemed and largely grown on the Continent and in America. They have a and creamy flavour, the 
pods are of a rich golden yellow colour, which gives them the appearance of a new vegetable, and in being stnngless they present 
the advantage of being readily cooked whole if desired. 
Per pint — s. d. 
EMPEROR FREDERICK, tall variety, yellow golden pods tinted with rose, very tender, bears abund- ^ 
antly till late in autumn, 6 ft. 
MONT D’OR OR GOLDEN WAX, very e.arly and productive, golden yellow stnngless pods ; height 6 ft. 2 
GOLDEN BUTTER, very early, dwarf, thick pods of bright yellow colour, 2 ft 1 
WAX DATE, dwarf, yellow, long podded, stringless, excellent for forcing, 2 ft 1 
ASPARAGUS. 
Cin,nvAr,o».-Th, .«.! l« m M.rcl. mi April, in ro». iwo l«l rrp».l I wh.n orit o, Iwo old Ir.mplm 
inlo beds. In selecting a spot for an Asparagus Bed choose an open and sunny siuiation ; as this is a crop which will occupj 
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the same spot for several years a little irouble expended upon il in tlie first place will well repay itself. 
The soil should he 
trenched at least to the depth of two feel, and plenty of good rotten manure mixed with it from top f 
be four feet wide, with t\vo feet alleys between ; three rows should he planted in each bed, one m the centre and one on each 
side at the distance of a foot ; the roots about nine inches apart in the rows. A dressing of .salt or aspar.agu.s manure m au.iimn 
or early spring at the rale of about four pounds to every six square yards is very henehcial. ^ 
OONNOVER’S COLOSSAL, an American variety, grows to an immense size, and is fit to cut two years 
after sowing 
GIANT, the ordinary kind 
GIANT ARGENTEUIL, early purple, as grown by the celebrated French growers for Pans market ... 
For Asparagus Plants, see Culinary Foots, page 23. 
Cooling’s “Ne Plus Ultra" Dwarf Beans should be included in every seed order. 
