COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA 
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Beans 
Everyone who plants beans wants at least a green and 
yellow wax bean. For your green bean get DeGiorgi’s strain 
of BOUNTIFUL STRINGLESS; for the wax the ADMIRAL. 
These are both good, and you’ll have no regrets, we assure 
you. 
Both varieties named are flat podded. PRIDE OF IOWA 
is our choice for the round podded in the green bean; PEN¬ 
CIL POD WAX for the yellow. 
THE LIMAS. This is a distinct sort. Some of our friends 
are under the impression that only an expert can grow 
them successfully. There is something to this when growing 
the large podded Limas, but you will surely succeed with 
DeGiorgi’s PROLIFIC BUSH LIMA. It is about the smallest 
podded in our whole list but what it lacks in size it makes 
up in quantity; the bushes are loaded with pods and it sel¬ 
dom fails to produce a full crop. 
The flavor is superb; you’ll like these beans if you are at 
all partial to Limas. They cook easily and evenly. The 
large crop makes this an ideal shell bean. 
If you want to try the pole Limas or have already grown 
them, get our JUMBO, a vigorous producer of extra quality 
beans. 
POLE BEANS. Perhaps you think it is too much trouble fuss¬ 
ing with the poles. A friend of ours had the same idea, but he was 
prevailed upon to try them several season’s ago. Now he always 
plants pole beans, always KENTUCKY WONDER. And about twent- 
ty-four poles, three plants to a pole, furnish all the beans for a fam¬ 
ily of seven—and they’re pretty big “bean eaters” at that. If your 
garden is of fair size, try some this season—get GOLDEN CLUSTER 
if you want the wax—and you'll have some every season afterward. 
They are enormous producers; you have no idea until you try them 
how big a crop they produce. 
Set the poles four feet apart each way, tie each set of three to¬ 
gether at the top, wigwam fashion and you’ll be surprised at the 
results. 
ASPARAGUS POLE BEAN. This is a distinct specie of Beans. 
The pods are good eating and they really grow 3 feet or even longer 
They will do well everywhere and are worth planting. 
EARLY MAZAGAN or Fava Bean, also called English Bean, is 
very different from all other beans. It must be planted early at the 
same time as such hardy vegetables as Radishes and Parsnips are 
planted. 
The Beans resemble Lima Beans in taste and are prepared for 
table in the same way. 
SCARLET RUNNER. This Bean is in a class by itself. It is 
generally planted for its bright red flowers rather than as a cropper. 
HOW MANY BEANS, TO PLANT AN ACRE? 
Planting in rows 3 ft. apart, dropping 3 beans in hills foot apart 
in the row, 40 lbs. of bush beans will easily plant an acre. Pole 
Beans 25 lbs. per acre. Bush Lima and Pole Limas also English 
beans are planted at the rate of 45 to 60 lbs. per acre. Less if you 
plant small seeded Limas, more if the variety planted is large seeded. 
One pound of beans will plant a row 50 feet long. 
Beans do well in any soil, light soil is best for them. Have the 
rows three feet apart to allow horse cultivation, or 16 inches apart 
for hand cultivation. Plant the seeds 12 inches apart in the row 
and cover up with two inches of soil. Never plant Beans until the 
apple trees are in bloom. Give frequent cultivation. Some people 
plant extraordinarily early, and in most cases they lose their first 
planting which, considering the price of seed and labor, is rather 
expensive. Do not cultivate your Beans when they are wet from dew 
or rain; if you will, the plants will get blighted and pods rusted. 
CULTURE FOR LIMA BEANS. These are VERY sensitive to 
cold, therefore must be planted later than is usual with regular 
beans—when the weather is thoroughly settled and warm and not 
before, or the seed will rot in the ground. Avoid ground fertilized 
heavily with fresh manure, because the plants on such ground drop 
their blossoms, resulting in few or no pods. Space bush limas l l /> 
ft. apart in the row, pole limas 4 ft. each way, placing one seed of 
bush limas to a hill and 4 to 6 beans in a circle about the pole of 
pole limas; always planting the seed with the eye DOWN. Cover 
the seeds about 2 inches deep. 
HOT WEATHER BEAN—For second planting, Longfellow is the 
best variety we have ever tried. It will produce a good crop of 
fine long, round, rather slender, but straight pods, even if the 
weather should be hot and dry. 
BOUNTIFUL BEAN—Extra early, heavily productive, long broad 
straight pods of a rich dark green color. Stringless, picked while 
the pods are young. One of the best for an early crop. 
CHAMPION WAX BEAN—Extra early bush bean, pods glistening 
pale yellow, rather narrow, very attractive in appearance, about 
6 inches long, nearly straight and stringless. Heavily attractive, 
quite free from rust, a dependable sort to plant either in the 
spring or for a fall crop. 
MASTERPIECE BEAN 
An extra early bush bean of vigorous upright growth, heavily 
productive, exceeding^ valuable for pot culture as a forcing variety. 
Pods long, tender when young, round, meaty and straight. Pkt. 10c; 
lb. 40c; 10 lbs. $2.10; 100 lbs. $18.00. 
GREEN BUSH BEANS 
Any variety, 10c per pkt.; y 2 lb. 15c; lb. 30c, postpaid. 
Not prepaid: 10 lbs. .100 lbs. 
Black Valentine .$1.30 $10.00 
Bountiful . 1.50 13.00 
Early Mazagan . 2.00 17.00 
Full Measure . 1.60 14.00 
Giant Stringless Green Pod. 1.50 12.00 
Giant English . 2.00 17.00 
Improved Earliest Red Valentine. 1.30 10.00 
Longfellow . 1.30 10.00 
Masterpiece . 2.10 18.00 
Navy . 1.00 7.00 
Pride of Iowa . 1.60 14.00 
Refugee Stringless . 1.60 13.00 
Round Pod Refugee, 1000 to 1. 1.60 13.00 
Stringless Green Pod . 1.50 13.00 
Green Perfection, crop failed. .... 
Tendergreen . 1.80 15.00 
WAX BUSH BEANS 
Not prepaid: 10 lbs. 100 lbs. 
Admiral Wax .$1.60 $14.00 
Brittle Wax . 1.60 15.00 
Champion Wax . 1.70 14.00 
German Black Wax. 1.50 12.00 
Golden Wax Improved. 1.60 13.00 
Improved Golden Wax. 1.60 13.00 
Pencil Pod Wax. 1.50 12.00 
Prolific Black Wax. 1.50 12.00 
Round Pod Kidney Wax. 1.80 15.00 
Webber or Cracker jack Wax. 1.70 14.00 
Unrivaled . 1.70 14.00 
BUSH LIMA BEANS—BUTTER BEANS 
Any variety, 10c per pkt.; y 2 lb. 20c; lb. 40c, prepaid. 
Not prepaid: 10 lbs. 100 lbs. 
Fordhook Bush Lima.$2.20 $19.00 
Henderson’s Bush Lima Improved. 1.50 12.00 
Prolific Bush Lima. 1.50 12.00 
POLE LIMA BEANS 
10c per pkt.; y 2 lb. 20c; lb. 40c, prepaid. 
Not prepaid: 10 lbs. 100 lbs. 
Jumbo, Best of All.$2.50 $22.00 
POLE BEANS 
Any variety, 10c per pkt.; y 2 lb. 20c; lb. 40c, prepaid. 
Not prepaid: 10 lbs. 100 lbs. 
Early Golden Cluster Wax.$1.80 $16.00 
Kentucky Wonder Green Pod. 1.60 14.00 
Mammoth Cranberry . 2.20 20.00 
SCARLET RUNNER—Per lb., postpaid, 40c. 
ASPARAGUS OR YARD LONG—Postpaid, Pkt. 10c; lb. 60c. 
GIANT MARVEL—Crop failed. 
POLE BEAN IDEAL MARKET 
The earliest Pole Bean, producing a heavy crop of tender, 
round, long, perfectly straight, bright green pods, stringless 
when young and of excellent flavor. Pkt. 10c; lb. 40c, pre¬ 
paid. Not prepaid: 10 lbs. $1.70. 
POLE BEAN MAMMOTH CRANBERRY 
Special Worcester We have an exceptionally fine, large seeded, 
large podded, bright colored stock of these beans. Our beans are 
the true old fashioned type. Of exceptional quality, many people 
proclaiming these Worcester beans as the tastiest and finest beans 
in existence. Pkt. 10c; lb. 40c. 
POLE LIMA BEAN JUMBO 
Extraordinarily productive, the vines bearing pods from the bot¬ 
tom to the top of vine, the pods often over 8 inches long and about 
2 inches wide, filled with beans of extra large size. The pods are 
produced in clusters of from 4 to 8 until the vines are killed by frost. 
Pkt. 10c; lb. 40c, postpaid. Not prepaid: 5 lbs. $1.25; 10 lbs. $2.50; 
25 lbs. $5.50; 100 lbs. $22.00. 
HIGH TABLE QUALITY of the vegetables you sell increases the 
demand and your profits. Knowing that quality in vegetables is of 
the highest importance, we continually improve by careful selection 
the quality of our various strains. A successful market gardener 
said to us once: “It takes a long time to win with quality unless 
one does expensive advertising but, once the buyers do find out that 
your produce is dependably of better than the average quality your 
sales will steadily increase and you will get slightly better prices 
for your stuff.” How true this is! 
OUR BEAN SEED is of superior quality carefully grown and 
inspected in the field 3 to 4 times. At no time is the crop harvested 
if it shows even a trace of anthraenose halo or bacterial blight. 
