DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS. 
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BUSH LIMA BEANS. 
Price, 20 cts. per qt„ 75 cts. per 1-2 pk., $1.25 per pk., $5 per bus. 
Burpee’s Bush Lima. Has yielded over 
300 pods on a single bush. An excellent 
and productive Bean. 
Dreer’s (Kumerle) Bush Lima. 
smaller than the above. 
Rogers’ Wax Bush Lima. 
Beans 
POLE or RUNNING BEANS. 
Price, 20 cts. per at., 75 cts. per 1-2 pk., $1.25 per pk., $5 per bus. 
Large White Lima. Extra-large, white 
Beans ; very productive. 
King of the Garden Lima. Large pods ; 
somewhat earlier, and a better yielder 
than above. 
Early Jersey Lima. Beans smaller and 
somewhat earlier than the large Limas. 
Dreer’s Improved Lima. Fine quality ; 
very popular. 
Golden Cluster. Pods a beautiful golden 
color; Beans large and absolutely string- 
less. 
White Creasehack. The best early 
green-podded pole Bean. 
Lazy Wife. Green-podded ; stringless ; 
very productive. 
Scarlet Runner. A very ornamental as 
well as useful Bean. 
Kentucky Wonder. Fine green pods; 
stringless and enormously productive. 
BEET. 
German, 3hmfet=3Juf>e. French, Betterave. 1 0 Z. for SO ft. Of drill. 
Sow as early in the spring as the ground can be worked, and every two weeks for a 
succession, up to July 1. For general crop sow about May 15. The soil should be a light, 
sandy loam, well enriched with stable manure, and plowed 
and harrowed until very fine. Sow in drills from 12 to 15 
inches apart, and when well up, thin to from 4 to 5 inches 
Early Egyptian. Roots roundish, deep red, sweet ; 
very early. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 10 cts., J^lb. 20c., lb. 50c. 
Crosby’s Improved Egyptian. Thicker, smoother, 
and better in quality. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 10 cts., '/lb- 
20 cts., lb. 60 cts. 
Extra-Early Blood Turnip. As early as Egyptian; 
of much finer appearance and quality. Pkt. 5 cts., 
oz. 10 cts., &lb. 20 cts., lb. 50 cts. 
Bastian's Extra-Early Red Turnip. Recommended 
for earliness, quality and productiveness. Pkt. 5 cts., 
oz. rocts., J^lb. 20 cts., lb. 50 cts. 
Bastain’s Half-Long. A good late variety for winter 
use. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 10 cts., '/lb. 20 cts., lb. 50 cts. 
Eclipse. Very early, of rapid growth ; has small tops. 
Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 10 cts., / lb. 20 cts., lb. 50 cts. 
Edmand’s Early Turnip. A very handsome round 
Beet of good quality. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 10 cts., '/lb. 
20 cts., lb. 50 cts. 
Columbian. A valuable new early and main-crop 
variety ; fine in appearance and quality. Pkt. 5 cts., 
oz. 10 cts., '/lb. 20 cts., lb. 50 cts. 
SWISS CHARD, or SILVER BEET. 
Cultivated for its tender leaves, which are excellent 
for greens. Sow and cultivate like spinach, thinning out 
for use as it grows. Pkt. 5c., oz. 10c., /lb. 25c., lb. 75c. 
SUGAR BEET AND MANGEL-WURZEL. 
Lane’s Imperial Sugar. The best stock Beet growing ; very large 
and sugary 
Long Red Mangel. Grows very large 
Golden Giant. Intermediate. A very large Beet, growing mostly 
above ground 
Golden Tankard. Said to contain less water and more sugar than 
other kinds ib s ., $1 . 
Yellow Globe. Very productive and easily pulled 
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