1934 SPRING AND FALL ^ THE HOUSE OF GURNEY, INC. YANKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA 
The Vegetable Garden /or 1934 
We Pay Transportation Charges on All Vegetable and Flower Seeds in Pkts., Ounces, 
Vs-Pints and One Pounds. Something Special Will Be Packed FREE with Each Order 
In the following pages we are ofifering you only seeds that 
would be satisfactory for our own planting. We are offering 
them at very reasonable prices as low as good seeds can be 
produced and delivered, and leave a small margin of profit that 
we may continue to serve you. All of the varieties offered in 
the Garden Seed Department have been tested in the Trial 
Ground and open culture from two to three, or many years, and 
have been selected as the varieties that will give you the best 
returns from the space used. 
The vegetable garden, though it may only be a few feet 
square, will add much to the joy of living and materially 
reduce expenses. 
T RANSPORTATION 
Parcel post rates are usually lower than express or freight on orders weighing less than 50 lbs. If you wish 
your order to come by parcel post, be sure and inclose money for postage on any articles not postpaid by us. 
GROUND ALMOND 
Is a very interesting novelty as one nut will 
produce as many as 125 to 150 in a hill. They 
should be sown in good mellow ground, they have 
a very fine almond flavor. The nuts are about 
three-quarters of an inch in length, having a 
thin brown skin and snow white meat that be¬ 
comes sweeter after the nuts have been harvest¬ 
ed an(J dried for a time. The nuts are formed 
near the surface and will mature in the fall after 
the first frost. Pkt., 7c; 'A lb., 20c; 1 lb., 
50c. Postpaid. 
BEANS-GARDEN VARIETIES 
1 Lb., for 100 Feet of Row. 60 Lbs. Per Acre 
Garden varieties of beans consist of Wax and Green Podded Dwarf String Beans, Pole and 
Lima beans. All of these yield enormous crops and require only a small space to produce enough for 
a large family. After they have matured the dried beans are excellent cooked. Young bean plants are 
easily damaged or killed by freezing so planting should be delayed until danger of frosts is past. Plant 
in rows about 2 feet apart 5 or 6 inches apart in the rows. Keep well cultivated but do not culti¬ 
vate when the plants are wet as it will cause many varieties to rust and injure the crop. 
For a succession of this delicious vegetable plant every two weeks until the middle of August. 
ASPARAGUS 
WAX BEANS 
Sow in early spring 
in drills two inches deep 
and one foot apart be¬ 
tween rows, .\fter the 
plants are one or two 
years old transplant 
them into permanent 
beds. Set them 15 
inches apart each way 
and cover four inches 
deep. Manure plenti¬ 
fully each fall, to be 
forked in very early in 
the spring, after which 
sow on a good dressing 
of salt, one oz. to 50 ft. 
of drill. 
Mary Washington —The result of careful 
breeding. It grows large straight shoots, dark 
green in color. The tips are tight and firm and 
do not open out or begin to branch until well out 
of the ground, making the finest kind of green 
Asparagus both for home use and market. 
Mary Washington is a special selection from 
Pedigreed Washington, being earlier and larger, 
and the stalks slightly oval in form. Produces 
large healthy seedlings, impervious to rust. 
Pkt., 5c; 1 oz., 10c; !4 lb., 30c; 1 lb., 75c. 
Summer Asparagus Squash —Known as 
“Cut and Come Again.’’ This most delicious 
vegetable is worth a place in all gardens. The 
plant makes a strong growth, like summer crook- 
neck squash. The fruit should be cut at four to 
six inches long and should not be allowed to 
mature, as it stops the formation of new fruit. 
Cook it just the same as asparagus. Yields 
wonderfully. Pkt., 5c; 1 oz., 15c; J4 lb. 40c. 
Postpaid. 
House of Gurney, Vail, Iowa. 
Yankton, So. Dak. Apr. 22, 1933. 
Dear .Sirs: 
Rec’d my first order O. K. Many thanks 
for extra seed. 
Have used your seed in Wise, and No. Dak. 
with best of success and would not think of 
planting any other as your seeds are superior 
to any I have ever used. 
Yours truly, 
T. A. Dunn. 
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Gurney’s Everbearing Wax 
Rust-Proof Bush Bean 
(50 Days to maturity.) The great campaign 
carried on by the government for the canning of 
vegetables applied especially to fresh beans, the 
wax and green podded beans in the pod. This 
created a very heavy demand for beans suitable 
for canning purposes. We planted a larger acre¬ 
age than usual and have a fine crop, and you will 
find this not only the very best for canning pur¬ 
poses, but the best for using fresh as string or 
snap beans. As its name implies, it is an ever- 
bearing bean, or a continuous bearer, over a 
period of six weeks; it is also rust-proof and 
practically immune from all other bean diseases, 
producing always a large crop. This bean is es¬ 
pecially valuable to the home gardener for all of 
the reasons named above. It produces the most 
beautiful pod of any of the beans, generally of 
very even length, of a beautiful shiny wax, very 
brittle and free from fiber. Vspt., 15c; 1 lb., 30c; 
5 lbs., $1.15; 10 lbs., $2.00; 30 lbs., $5.00; 60 
lbs., $9.25. 
Pencil Pod Black Wax 
(50 days to maturity). A most delicious rich 
dark yellow snap bean, being so tender and brit¬ 
tle that by taking it at either end and bending it, 
it will fly into several pieces. Abundant bearer. 
Practically rust-proof and even in the dry season 
just past, made a good crop of delicious beans. 
Seed black when ripe. (6 pt., 10c; 1 lb., 25c; 
5 lbs., $1.00; 10 lbs., $1.75; 30 lbs., $4.50; 60 
lbs., $8.50. 
Gurney’s Earliest Brittle Wax 
(40 days to maturity). This remarkably early 
clear white bean, delicious in quality, stringless 
in all stages of its growth, combined with its ex¬ 
treme earliness, makes it one of the most de¬ 
sirable for the garden, and as its name implies, 
it is of that degree of brittleness that makes it 
extra desirable for cooking purposes in its golden 
waxy stage. (6 pt. 10c; 1 lb., 25c; 5 lbs., $1.00; 
10 lbs., $1.75; 30 lbs., $4.50; 60 lbs., $8.50. 
Golden Wax 
(40 days' to maturity). The Golden Wax is 
probably the earliest, and we believe the most 
generally planted and satisfactory of any of the 
old varieties. Pods are a bright, waxy yellow, 
good length, a little flatter than round, entirely 
stringless, and of a fine buttery flavor. It is ex¬ 
cellent for cooking when the pods are just 
formed. Again, when the beans are nearly ripe, 
as a shelled bean. An excellent sort for canning 
or pickling. A very heavy bearer, and withstands 
adverse conditions. The seed is white, mottled, 
red and purple. !4 pt., 10c; 1 lb., 25c; 5 lbs., 
$1.00; 10 lbs., $1.75; 30 lbs., $4.50; 60 lbs., 
$8.50. 
NAVY BEANS 
A great many people grow what they suppose 
is the Navy Bean, but is generally a mixed, un¬ 
even bean that cooks uneven and lacks quality. 
Our Navy Beans are absolutely pure and hand 
picked. 1 lb., 20c; 5 lbs., 70c; 10 lbs., $1.10; 
30 lbs., $2.40; 60 lbs., $4.25. 
Ws pay tvanspovtation chorees on all Vegetable and Flower Seeds in packets, oz., I /4 lbs. and I lb. Lots Pa^e 5 
