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T HE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
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With more than a dozen perfectly kinds to choose from, we offer home gardeners 
beans that are really fit to be eaten. We have flat-podded and round-podded stringless 
among the green beans, and an equally wide choice among the wax-podded kinds 
They cut the work of preparation for table use in half, the pleasure of eating them has 
been doubled. Bountiful (flat green-podded) and Brittle Wax (round wax-podded) 
included in the collection below are two ideal home garden beans. Try them. For 
repeated sowings we will mail one pint of each (two pints in all) for SO cents 
postpaid. Should you find any strings on them, as shown on old-fashioned bean 
alongside, write us and we will refund your money any time during the year. 
Modern 
•Stringless, 
Wax-podded 
Beans 
More Peas per Pod, 
Bigger Pods, 
and More of Them 
Small, tasteless peas, borne on 
\ ines that require a long time to bear 
a crop, are out of fashion. Our pedi- 
greed strain of Little Marvel yields 
more pods on a 15 inch vine, than 
old-fashioned Premium Gem bears on 
20 inch vines. Besides, the pods are 
arger, the peas are bigger, of better 
color and sweeter. .Alderman Peas 
bear their fine 5 inch pods on 5 
foot vines later in the season. For 
perfect succession of luscious peas 
we recommend Little Marvel, Thomas Lax- 
ton, .Alderman and Potlach. We will mail 
pint of each for 50 cents postpaid. 
A Catalog That Really 
Describes — FREE 
It is more than a mere price list. Its 148 
pages abound with pertinent suggestions 
how to make gardens more productive. Year 
after year, progress is changing the make-up of the pages. But 
one thing remains permanently — the policy that dictates every 
change. “Service to customers” is the thought that keeps us 
constantly on the alert, looking for the better things among seeds, 
bulbs, plants. Our catalog records them all, also gives reasons 
why some kinds serve certain purposes better than others. Whether 
you garden a town lot, size 30 x 50, or an acre, or conduct a large 
farm, our catalog is sure to make your work of planning, planting 
and reaping more pleasant, easier and more profitable. A copy is 
yours for the asking. Write to-day. 
Little 
Marvel 
Our Idea of an Ideal 
Vegetable Seed Collection 
for Suburban Gardens 
The performance record of .sorts offered 
here stands unique throughout the country. 
All thrive in many different soils, their 
quality is top-notch — always. In the make- 
up of this collection, the price was made 
second consideration. It is a liberal value. 
But, above all, this collection represents 
our ideals of thoroughbred vegetables. It 
also typifies our . service in selecting for 
American gardeners the best in seeds that 
the world affords. This selection will make 
your 1917 garden yield more and better vege- 
tables. For One Dollar we will mail you 
One regular packet each of 
Bean, Bountiful — flat green-podded 
Bean, Brittle W ax — round-podded 
Beet, Detroit Dark Red — early, sweet 
Carrot, Chantenay — fine flavored 
Corn, Golden Bantam — sweetest 
Cucumber, Davis Perfect — very tender 
Endive, Green Curled — fine salad plant 
Lettuce, Early Curled Simpson — loose heads 
Lettuce, Wayahead — early butterhead 
Lettuce, California Cream Butter 
Parsley, Early Double Curled — for garnishing 
Pea, Little Marvel — early, sweet, prolific 
Pea, Thomas Laxton — excellent flavor 
Radish, Sparkler — round scarlet with white tip 
Radish, Icicle — crispest long white 
Swiss Chard, Lucullus — a spinach beet 
Yours for One Dollar, Postpaid 
Please do not ask us to make changes In above collection. They are 
“put up” ahead of time, ready for mailing. In its entirety, the col- 
lection stands for the most practical vegetables suitable for growing in 
small suburban gardens. In every instance, each variety is represented 
by the choicest strain which 20 years of persistent search for the Best 
have enabled us to produce. 
30-32 Barclay Street 
New York 
Alderman 
Peas 
Progress in\fegetables 
and what Stumpp & Walter Company’s 
Service in Selection means to the 
average Home Gardener 
T he vegetables grown in American gardens to-day are far 
ahead of those in favor twenty years ago. This change for 
the better is noticeable in all classes. Modern varieties 
of beets are tender and sweet at all stages, unlike the old, bitter, stringy 
kinds. Up-to-date Sweet Corn is sweeter, Lettuce is crisper and soon. 
The importance of improved types of vegetables was recognized by 
Stumpp & Walter Company early in its business career. Changes from old 
types to new have been steadily recorded in the catalog, obsolete varieties 
have been dropped to emphasize the meritorious. 
Old- 
fashioned 
String 
Bean 
‘‘Elxit the String Bean’’ 
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