Plant Beans Every Two or Three Weeks from Spring to Mid-Summer 
GARDEN BEANS 
Beans like a dry and rather light soil, though they will do well 
in any garden soil if not planted too early in the spring. Planting 
should be delayed until all danger of frost is over. Dwarfs are 
earliest and most hardy as a general rule. In garden culture, beans 
are usually planted about 2 inches deep, in rows 18 inches apart, and 
3 inches apart in the row; in field culture, in drills 2 to 3 feet apart, 
so as to cultivate with horse one way. Until blossoming season, 
frequent but shallow cultivation should be given. It is useless to 
expect a crcp from a poorly prepared field or from one that needs 
deep stirring after planting, as cutting of the roots after the plants 
show bloom is very apt to kill the vines and ruin the crop. Two 
pounds will plant 100 feet of drill, and sixty pounds is sufficient for 
an acre. 
Running beans, especially the Limas, are even more tender than 
the Dwarfs; therefore, planting must be delayed still later, or until 
liability to rot -in consequence of cold, damp weather has passed. 
Plant five or six beans in each hill, about 2 inches deep, hills 3 feet 
apart each way. Two pounds of seed will be sufficient for 100 hills 
of Limas, or 50 pounds of Limas per acre. 
Some market gardeners risk planting part of their crop five or 
six days before the average time of the last frost in the spring so 
that if they are fortunate and miss the frost they will be early on 
the market. To afford a regular succession of crops throughout the 
season, plant every two weeks after the first planting until mid¬ 
summer. 
Harvesting Bountiful Beans for Seed. We offer excellent, rogued, 
liand-pieked stocks. 
BEANS—Green-pod Bush 
See page 
Bountiful 
3 for information regarding days to maturity. 
48 days. A most important variety commercially, 
especially in the south for fall planting. Table qual¬ 
ity excellent; pods six inches long, slender, slightly curved, flat, 
light green and stringless. 
(Pkt., 10c) (% lb., 20c) (lb., 30c) (5 lbs., $1.35) prepaid. Whole¬ 
sale price, not prepaid—(10 lbs. @ 15c per lb.) (100 lbs., $12.00). 
Rlarlr A/alprattini* 50 days. An early productive sort well liked 
uiy aiuiuiic by southern planters. A good shipper. Pods 
are round and straight, dark green and long; but not entirely 
stringless. 
(Pkt., 10c) (Va lb., 15c) (lb., 25c) (5 lbs., $1.20) prepaid. Whole¬ 
sale price, not prepaid—(10 lbs. @ 13c per lb.) (10O lbs., $10.00). 
Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod h? ) „,e a garden! , a S go,5 r S hip- 
per. The pods are fleshy, being fully rounded before the beans 
begin to attain any size, and remain crisp and tender longer than 
many other sorts. They continue to bear a long time when kept 
picked, and by planting two or three times during the season you 
have snap beans covering a period of three or four months. 
(Pkt., 10c) (y 2 lb., 20c) (lb., 30e) (5 lbs., $1.35) prepaid. Whole¬ 
sale price, not prepaid—(10 lbs. @ 15c per lb.) (100 lbs., $12.00). 
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