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The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners. 
DANIELS GIANT SCARLET. Reducsd from a Photograph. 
BEANS — Runner. 
Cultivation. — Runner Beans form one of the most important and. 
profitable of all garden crops grown for Summer and Autumn use, and; 
yield a liberal supply of vegetables available for use after the Maincrop- 
Peas are over. 
They are easy of culture and may be grown as screens in small gardens, 
thus serving the double purpose of covering a trellis or wall and at tho- 
same time yielding a crop of delicious vegetables. 
The ground should be prepared in the same manner as for other Beans, 
but Runners being somewhat tender the seed should not bo sown untib 
early in May. 
Sow tho seed in double rows 9 inches apart and, if possible, allow 
a space of 12 feet between each double row, cropping the intervening; 
space with other vegetables. 
For a succession make further sowings in June and July. 
When the plants are about 9 inches high, draw the earth round them,, 
and place tall, strong stakes to the rows, taking care to make them very 
firm and able to withstand tho wind. A good mulching of rotted manuro- 
during the cropping season will lengthen the period of bearing and give 
quality to the beans. 
Where it is impossible to procure tall stakes, it is the practice to, 
take out the leading growths when the plants are about a foot high, 
thus encouraging a spreading habit and in this way good crops may bo 
grown and space economised. 
The best varieties both for exhibition and general purposes are- 
Daniels’ Giant White and Daniels’ Giant Scarlet. 
per quart. 
mr DANIELS’ GIANT SCARLET. A grand variety s d - 
both for exhibition and the table, and is at the same 
time one of the most prolific varieties with which we 
are acquainted. The pods are long, straight, and of 
excellent quality. Our own selected stock 
per pint Is. 6d. 2 © 
JW DANIELS’ GIANT WHITE. This is without doubt 
the finest type of Runner Bean extant, bearing in pro- 
fusion long, green, thick, fleshy pods, upwards of twelve 
inches in length, and nearly two inches in breadth. This 
variety, besides the best for culinary purposes, will also 
be found a grand exhibition kind per pint Is. 6d. 2 © 
Uy SCARLET EMPEROR. A giant amongst Scarlet 
Runner Beans, producing fine straight pods fifteen inches 
in length, and is enormously productive. A grand sort 
for exhibition . . per half-pint Is. ; per pint Is. 9d. — 
yW WHITE EMPEROR (new). For full description, 
see page 3 . . • • • • per pkt. Is. — 
TITAN. One of the largest of the Scarlet Runners ; tho pods, 
which are broad, straight, and handsome, are produced in clus- 
ters, and are very lleshy and almost stringless. This variety 
is very hardy, and most useful to grow, either for table or markot, 
while for exhibition purposes it is unequalled por pint Is. 1 © 
BEST OF ALL. One of the longest- podded of the Scarlet Runners, 
very prolific. The pods, which are long, straight, and very 
handsome, are produced in large clusters. It is of excellent 
table quality, and one of the best for exhibition per pint Is. 1 9- 
NE PLUS ULTRA. A fine variety for exhibition and main crop, 
producing a large quantity of fine pods of splendid form, from 
ten to fourteen inches long, and quite straight. To grow it 
to perfection each bean should be planted one foot apart in 
the row . . . . • • • • > • . . 1 i> 
OLD SCARLET RUNNER. Best for general crop . . .,14 
PAINTED LADY. Scarlet and white blossom, very ornamental . . lb 
VEITCH’S CLIMBING KIDNEY BEAN. First Class Certificate, 
Royal Horticultural Society. This Bean combines the best 
features of the two types, Dwarf French and Scarlet Runner. 
It crops earlier than the Runners and has all tho delicate flavour 
and quality of the Dwarfs ; height six to seven feet . . . . 1 •> 
“ Your Runner Beans were a great success last year. Quite the best round lieie. 
—Mr. S. SHATTOCK, ltowbarton. 
"The Runner Beans were flue and delicious."— Mr. RAKSEY, Torquay. 
" I mav say I am delighted with your Runner Beans, Scarlet Emperor and CUai'.t 
White. They are wonderful croppers." — Mr. S. MORISS, Barrowby. 
“ i m ay say I was highly pleased with the Seeds I 
finest [crop ot Giant White Runner Beans I ever saw.’ - 
St. Peters. 
had from you. I had the- 
Mr. J. JEPSON, Walpole- 
