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King of the Garden Lima.— When green, much 
larger m pod and bean than the ordinary Large Lima; 
■eigorous, productive, handsome, popular, excellent; two 
Tinea will be autficient for each pole. 
Scarlet Runners are a great favorite, producing elua- 
tera of beautiful scarlet flowers, which are very ornimen- 
tal. This is very line fur use as a green shell bean. 
(Fig. U.) 
Large Lima are the most buttery and delicious of all, 
and are a universal favorite, green or dry. (Fig. 10.) 
Giant Wax (Red Seed) make pods 6 to 9 inches long, 
thick and fleshy, of yellow waxy color, and is very pro- 
ductive and tender. (Fig. 12.) 
Kortioultural, or Speckled Cranberry is an old 
favorite and is equally good as a snap or as a shell bean, 
either green or dry. (Fig. 5.) 
White Dutch Runners are very ornamental, large 
white seed, and beautiful clusters of white flowers, and is 
a good shell bean. 
Dutch Case-Knife. A very productive variety, and 
one of the earliest; sometimes used as “snaps,” but gen- 
erally sheUed. Next to the Lima the best market sort. 
Southern Prolific. Desirable for snap beans, mature 
in seventy days. Bears its pods in clusters. Popular in 
the South. 
Asparagus, or Yard Long. Pod sometimesgrowa 
from two to three feet long; very curious, succulent and 
tender. 
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BEB1\S. 
The soil best suited for Beet culture is that which is rather light and well enriched. Sow in drills one foot 
apart and 1 inch deep, as early as the ground can be worked; continue fora succession as late as the middle of July; 
when the plants are large enough thin out to stand 6 inches apart in the rows. The Sugar and Mangel Wurzel varieties 
are grown for feeding stock, and should bo sown from April to J une in drills 2 feet apart, and afterwards thinned out to 
stand 1 foot apart in the rows; keep well cultivated. One ounce will sow a drill fifty feet in length; five or six pounds 
are required for an acre. 
Eclipse. 
Eclipse. A very early, smooth, 
globe-shaped beet with small top and 
thin root; its skin an intense deep red, 
its flesh of very fine texture, earliness 
and quality it is excelled by none. 
Many of our Market Gardeners prefer it 
to the Egyptian. 
Early Blood Turnip. An old 
standard variety of fine form and flavor. 
Kext to Eclipse in earliness. 
Dewing’s Improved Blood Turnip. Roots deep 
blood-red, of fine form and flavor. Very early. An ex- 
cellent market variety. 
Pine Apple. The roots are half long, medium size; 
well formed and of very dark crimson color. Fiue 
grained, sweet, tender and excellent for table use. 
Long Dark Blood. Long, smooth, growing to good 
size; half out of the ground; color dark blood-red; top 
small, dark rod, and of upright growth; keeps well. It 
is apt to he tough when sown too early. 
^!^Don’t forget to send for a package of Strong’s Perfection Cabbage Lettuce and 
other Specialties. 
