LOW’S RETAIL CATALOGUE. 
BUSH BEANS. 
Culture. — They are so extremely sensitive to frost and cold, it is useless to plant them before the ground has 
become warm and light. Stir the ground often when dry ; earth scattered on the leaves when they are wet with 
dew or rain will cause them to rust and greatly injure the crop. Plant four to six beans in hills three feet apart, or 
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the soil and time of planting, 
4. Low’s Champion. — See specialties 
5. Ferry’s Golden Wax. — A valuable variety; ten days earlier than the German 
Wax. Pods long, large, brittle, entirely stringless, and of a txautiful, rich, 
golden wax color. Excels as a snap bean, and has few superiors as a shell bean 
for winter use ; of a dwarf compact growth, yields abundantly, and threshes 
well when dry . 
0 . Henderson’s Bush Lima. — A wonder among bush beans. 
See specialties, page 9, 
7 . Yosemite Mam. W a X . — A variety of w ax bean noted for large 
size and length of pods. See page 10. 
8. Mont D’Or. — A very excellent dwarf variety which comes from 
Germany, a fine sort to grow'. See page 10. 
9 . Wardwell’s Kidney Wax. — A variety of great excellence. 
See page 10. 
10 . Early Marblehead Horticultural. — This is one ot tlic earliest beans in 
cultivation. It is a very good bearer, free from rust or mildew. It is not as 
tender as the wax varieties for a string bean, but as a shell bean is equal to the 
best. The beans are large with rich colored pods 
11. Gentian Black Wax. — One of our best varieties; pods when fit for use are 
waxy yellow, very tender, delicious and productive 
12. Early Valentine. — One of the earliest and best as a string bean 
13. Early Yellow Six Weeks. — Excellent for string or shell, one of the earliest 
14. Early China. — Early, one of the most productive and best .... 
16. Dwarf Horticultural. — Excellent, green or dry 
16. Early Mohawk. — Early, productive and very hardy 
17. Boston Favorite. — New and excellent. See specialties 
18. New White-Seeded Dwarf Wax. — This is a variety much esteemed for 
the tenderness of its pods when green. Early and productive . 
19. David Warren Bush. — New, and very fine as a snap bean 
20. “ Golden-Eyed ” Wax. — New. See specialties Introduced this 
season 
Our new “ Champion ” and “Golden-Eyed Wax ” Bush Beans are the best 
and most desirable varieties knotvn. 
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