CHOICE SELECTED STRAINS OF VEGETABLE SEEDS 
BEANS — The Best Garden Varieties 
All garden beans are tender and should not be planted until danger from late frosts has passed. Any 
ordinary, good warm garden loam will grow the dwarf kinds well. The wax-pod varieties should have a richer 
soil than the green-pod. The best method of culture is to plant in rows two feet apart, sowing the beans two 
inches apart and two inches deep in the rows. When the second pair of leaves appear, thin out to a single 
plant every four to six inches or to clumps of three or four, a foot apart. Keep them well hoed and draw the 
earth up to the stems, but only when dry. Working them when wet with rain or dew, makes them more liable 
to rust and injures the crop. For succession, sow at intervals of about two weeks until late in August. 
Pole beans require a warmer and richer soil than the dwarf varieties. Set the poles four feet apart each 
way and plant four to six beans about one inch deep around each pole. Thin out to three plants to a pole if 
the soil is rich. Pole Limas should not be put into the ground until the soil is dry and warm, or they are apt 
to rot. Plant them with the eye down. 
GREEN PODDED DWARF OR BUSH VARIETIES 
Giant Stringless Green Pod. This is an exception- 
ally good variety, possessing all the merits of its name- 
sake, the Stringless Green Pod, with much larger pods. 
It is undoubtedly one of the earliest kinds, and is espe- 
cially desirable planted with the original Stringless for 
a succession. The plants are stocky and strong growers: 
pods slightly curved, rounded, saddle-backed and meaty. 
They are brittle and stringless at all stages, and in 
quality and flavor are surpassed by none. Our cus- 
tomers who have tried the Giant Stringless, are unani- 
mous in praising it. Pint, 15 cents. Quart, 30 cents. 
Extra Early Refugee. Has all the good quali- 
ties of the well-known Refugee, but is ready for the 
market ten days earlier. Very productive, and sure 
to produce a crop either in a wet or a dry season. 
A fine shipper, and fast becoming one of our most 
popular round green-podded snaps for both spring 
and summer planting. Pint, 15 cents. Quart, 25 cents. 
Burpee’s Stringless Green-Pod. The strong 
points claimed for this variety are that it is hardier 
and will stand frost better than other early kinds, 
and that it is entirely stringless. It makes a round- 
podded snap, which is tender, and of excellent table 
qualities. Pint, 15 cents. Quart, 30 cents. 
Refugee, or 1,000 to i. This is really one of the 
best snaps for general use or for main-crop. It is 
enormously productive. The snaps are round-podded, 
tender and of excellent table qualities. Later than 
the early kinds, but continues in bearing much longer. 
Pint, 15 cents. Quart, 25 cents. 
Extra Early Red Valentine. This variety 
was for many years the standard green-pod 
snap Bean, and the improved strain we now 
offer is surpassed in earliness and quality only 
by the Stringless Green Pod. The pods are 
fleshy, round and saddle-backed, and while not 
stringless are very profuse. It is a sure-cropper 
under all conditions. Valentine is a superior 
and popular market variety and always a good 
seller at good prices. Pint, 15 cents. Quart, 
25 cents. 
Extra Early Longfellow. We offer this 
new but very meritorious variety in full con- 
fidence that it will be found to be an ideal snap 
bean, a prolific producer of round, straight, 
solid, fleshy pods, averaging over six inches in 
length, tender and brittle and having no strings 
except when quite old. The plants are robust, 
of compact habit, and the pods mature very 
quickly. In fact it is one of the earliest of the 
extra early sorts. Pint, 20 cents. Quart, 35 
cents. 
Black Valentine. Vigorous and healthy 
foliage, bearing an abundance of pods 6 inches 
long, round, meaty and of handsome appear- 
ance. Unsurpassed in hardiness, excellent for 
shipping and one of the most uniformly pro- 
ductive, reliable and profitable beans for the 
market gardener. Pint, 20 cents. Quart, 35 cents. 
Bountiful. Of thrifty growth; rust and 
mildew proof; is very hardy, extremely early, 
bountifully prolific and bears continuously for several 
weeks. Bears immense green pods, thick, broad and 
extra long, of the highest quality. Is absolutely string- 
less. Pint, 20 cents. Quart, 35 cents. 
Early Mohawk. An old popular and standard extra 
early variety. Hardy, long, green, flat pods, thick and 
tender. Pint, 15 cents. Quart, 25 cents. 
Long Yellow Six Weeks. Extra early, green-podded, 
hardy. Popular as a first early sort. Pint, 15 cents. 
Quart, 25 cents. 
Special Prices for Larger Quantities. 
