The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners. 
DANIELS’ O'ANT SCARLET. Reduced /r.m a Ph(i0}r,iph. 
BEAN S — 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 main crop 
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 be sown until 
early in May. 
Sow the 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 the wind. A good mulching of rotted manure 
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 tho leading growths when the plants aro about a foot high, 
thus encouraging a spreading habit and in this way good crops may bo 
grown and space economised. 
Tho best varieties both for exhibition and general purposes are 
Daniels’ Giant White and Daniels’ Giant Scarlet. 
per quart'. 
IV DANIELS’ GIANT SCARLET. A grand variety “■ <i- 
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 pint Is. 6d. 2 6 
|V 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 . . pint Is. 6d. 2 6 
IV 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 . . . . • • • • Pint I s - 6d. 2 6 
IV WHITE EMPEROR (new). A fine white seeded 
variety bearing a heavy crop of long straight pods quite 
equal to the Scarlet Emperor. It will make a most 
valuable variety for Exhibition, at the same time it is 
enormously prolific . . • • • • Pint I s - 6<L 2 0 
BEST OF AT.T. 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 pint Is. 3d. 2 (J 
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 per pint Is. 1 9 
OLD SCARLET RUNNER. For general crop . . per pint Sd. 1 2 
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 the delicate flavour 
and quality of the Dwarfs height six to seven feet . . 2 0 
•• I am delighted with your Runner Beaus. I have a grand crop ; the finest I have 
ever seen.” — Mr. G.jTHORNE, Cardiff. 
" Tour White Empercr Runner Beans won First Prize at our Show. —Mr. W. 
SOWDEN, Torpoint, 
