Plant with Confidence 
BEANS 
Wax Podded Beans 
Improved Golden Wax. ?1 days. Used largely for home garden 
planting. Plants small, erect, moderately productive. Pods straight, 
thick'flat, creamy yellow in color. Stringless. 
Pencil Pod Black Wax. 53 days. A desirable home garden variety. 
Plants strong and productive. Pods round, slightly curved, brittle 
and absolutely stringless. Seed solid black. 
Round Pod Kidney or Brittle Wax. 54 days. The outstanding 
sort of highest quality for home use and for the shipping trade. 
Plants large, erect, medium green, vigorous and productive. Pods 
handsome in appearance, medium yellow, round, slightly curved, 
deeply creasebacked, extremely brittle; fleshy, absolutely string- 
less and fiberless; the standard of the round podded wax varieties. 
Davis White Wax. 54 days. Plant medium large and sturdy. Pods 
thick, flat, light yellow, straight, uniform and attractive. Stringy, 
fibrous, of fair quality. 
Improved Prolific Black Wax. 55 days. This is an improvement 
over the old German Black Wax. Is an excellent home garden 
variety. Pods 5 to 5]/2 inches, somewhat curved, round, entirely 
stringless and free from fiber. Very heavy yielder. 
Pole Beans 
Kentucky Wonder or Old Homestead (Green). 67 days. The 
best known and most popular pole bean. Good for home and 
market garden, and for canning. Pods 7 to 9 inches long, practically 
round, curved, with undulating surface, meaty, of good quality. 
Strong climber, hardy, very prolific over long season. Slightly 
stringy, fiberless, very brittle. 
Kentucky Wonder (Wax). 
66 days. The best wax podded 
pole bean. Vines are strong, 
producing pods 6 to 8 inches 
long, coming in very abundant 
clusters, pods very broad, thick 
and fleshy, of golden yellow to 
creamy white. 
Asgrow Stringless Green Pod. (Page 2). 
Lima Beans 
Shell Beans 
Horticultural or Speckled 
Cranberry. 56 days. Also 
called Dwarf Cherry. Used for 
snap beans, and also for green 
shell beans which are edible in 
62 days. Desirable variety for 
home and market garden use. 
Plant medium height and proli¬ 
fic. Pods green at early stage, 
changing to greenish yellow, 
splashed with carmine at ma¬ 
turity; semi-round, stringless, 
streaked with maroon. Can 
supply dwarf or tall variety. 
Burpee’s Improved Bush 
Lima Beans. 
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Henderson’s Bush. 70 days. The earliest variety. Produces 
ten days earlier than Burpee’s Bush Lima. Sometimes called 
Baby Lima, also known as Butter Bean. Used largely by 
canners. Plant small, dark green, erect, bushy; pods flat, 
containing 3 to 4 seeds. Green shell beans, flat, small, of ex¬ 
cellent quality. Dry beans creamy white. Very well adapted 
to districts having about the same climate as Denver. 
Burpee’s Improved Bush. 77 days. Similar to Burpee’s 
Bush Lima, but slightly earlier and longer podded. Plant 
large, erect, vigorous, very productive; pods contain 4 to 5 
seeds. Dry beans large, plump, flat, surface somewhat 
wrinkled, color white with greenish tinge. 
Fordhook Bush. 77 days. Plant large, upright, vigorous, 
highly productive. Pods contain 3 to 4 seeds. Green shell 
beans, large, thick-oval, of excellent quality. Dry beans white 
with tinge of green. 
Aztec (Colorado Cream Butter). Especially adapted to our 
Western Country. Has been grown by the Aztec Indians 
for at least two centuries. The seed is not flat like most Lima 
Beans but round and about the shape of our small Navy 
Beans, but is 4 or 5 times larger. Can be used either as a 
shell bean or dried. 
BEAN PRICES 
• 
Pkt. 
Postpaid 
34-lb. l-lb. 
10-lb. 
Not Ppd. 
100 lbs. 
Asgrow . 
$Q.05 $0.15 $0.35 
$3.00 
$16.00 
Asgrow Valentine .... 
Kentucky Wonder 
.05 
.15 
.30 
2.25 
15.00 
Green . 
.05 
.15 
.35 
3.00 
16.00 
Kentucky Wonder Wax 
.05 
.15 
.30 
2.25 
15.00 
Horticultural. 
.05 
. .15 
.30 
2.25 
15.00 
Burpee’s Improved . . . 
.05 
.15 
.35 
3.25 
18.00 
Fordhook Lima. 
.05 
.15 
.40 
3. 7 5 
22.00 
Aztec . 
.05 
.15 
.40 
3.75 
22.00 
All Other Varieties 
.05 
.10 
.30 
2.50 
15.00 
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