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J. J. BUTZER, PORTLAND, OREGON 
Butzer’s List of 
Select Strains of 
VEGETABLE SEEDS 
BEANS—Dwarf or Bush Green Podded 
Culture—No crop responds more readily to good soil and cultivation than 
beans. A light, rich, well-drained loam which was manured for the previous 
crop is desirable. If too rank manure is used it is apt to make the plant run too 
much to vine. Beans are extremely sensitive to both cold and wet, and it is 
useless to plant them before the ground has become dry and warm. The largest 
returns will result from planting in drills from two to three feet apart and 
leaving the plants two to six inches apart in the row. Up to the time of blos¬ 
soming they should have frequent shallow cultivation, but any mutilation of the 
roots by cultivation after the plants come into bloom is likely to cause the blos¬ 
soms to blast and so cut off the crop. The cultivation of beans should always 
be very shallow and it is useless to expect a crop from a field so poorly prepared. 
Varieties should be selected so as to give a succession both of string and green 
shelled beans. The wax podded varieties will degenerate into a mixture of 
green wax podded plants unless there is constant attention given to the 
removing of any green podded plants which may appear in the seed crop, and 
the constant selection of plants of the highest type for stock seed. Hence it is 
especially important to use seed from reliable sources only. 
BURPEE’S STRINGLESS GREEN POD 
The Best Green Podded Bush Bean for the 
Northwest, should be in every garden 
This famous bean is absolutely unequaled! It combines unusual hardiness, 
extreme earliness, and wonderful productiveness with pods of handsome appear¬ 
ance and finest quality. Extra early plantings may be made to produce the 
earliest crop, and even with later plantings Burpee’s “Stringless” is always 
the quickest to produce pods. By repeated plantings pods may be had in constant 
succession from Spring until cut off by heavy frosts in the Fall. Combined 
with the extra hardiness and early maturity, the pods are the finest in quality, 
of a rich green, very round and straight, five inches long, solidly meaty and 
broad—deeply saddle-backed, caused by the rounded swell of the fleshy sides. 
The pods are tender, brittle, and of finest flavor, always entirely stringless, even 
when fully matured. In a word, all planters now agree that Burpee’s Stringless 
is absolutely unequaled! Per pkt. 10c; Vz lb. 15c; lb. 25c; 5 lbs. $1.00, postpaid 
EXTRA EARLY RED VALENTINE 
Next to Burpee’s Stringless, this is the most popular of all green-podded 
bush beans. In this improved strain the pods are very fleshy, round and saddle- 
backed, with only slight strings. Bushes grow uniformly about fifteen inches in 
height. Per pkt. 10c; x /z lb. 15c; lb. 30c, postpaid 
EARLY STRINGLESS REFUGEE 
An improved stringless strain. Very hardy and extremely productive. Pods 
round and straight, tender, brittle, absolutely stringless and of finest quality; 
medium early. Great improvement over Refugee or 1,000 to 1. Excellent home 
or market variety as a “snap.” Unsurpassed for picking or canning. Second 
early. Per pkt. 10c; x /z lb. 15c; lb. 30c, postpaid 
DWARF HORTICULTURAL 
One of the best dwarf sorts for green shell beans for the home garden and 
market and can be used early as a green podded snap bean. The plants are very 
productive, compact and upright, with large leaves. The mature pods are about 
five to five and one-half inches in length, broad and thick curved, with splashes 
of bright red on yellowish ground. They become fit for use as green shelled 
beans early and in this condition the beans are very large, easily shelled and are 
about equal to the Lima in quality. Seed large, oval, plump, pale buff, 
splashed with deep red. Large pkt. 10c; % lb. 15c; lb. 30c, postpaid 
BROAD OR FAVA BEANS 
ENGLISH or BROAD WINDSOR, or FAVA BEANS— These beans are also 
known on the Pacific Coast as “Horse Beans.” In Europe they are cultivated 
extensively for eating purposes. If shelled when young and cooked for about 
twenty-five minutes in boiling water with a pinch of baking soda added, they 
make a most delicious vegetable. 
In the Willamette Valley these should be planted in the fall, November and 
December preferably, although they can also be planted in the early spring 
with good success, when the season is favorable. Seed can be planted in hills or in drills. When sown in drills, 
plant so that seeds are six to nine inches apart, covering three or four inches deep, and in rows thirty to thirty- 
six inches apart. If the tips of the plants of the Fava are cut off after the plant has flowered, the crop will set 
better, the pods will be larger and develop earlier, and also the attack of Aphis will be checked. 
Per pkt. 10c; Ms lb. 15c; lb. 25c; 5 lbs. $1.00, postpaid 
BURPEE’S 
STRINGLESS 
CASTOR BEAN 
Used for medicinal purposes and by some claimed to keep moles away. 
Per pkt. 10c, postpaid. 
A GREAT POLE BEAN—OREGON GIANT 
If you have not grown this bean, by all means do so this season. It is a quick grower, quite early and pro¬ 
duces the MOST WONDERFUL LONG, PLUMP, MEATY PODS that are TENDER, BRITTLE and of DE¬ 
LICIOUS MILD FLAVOR when cooked. 
This bean of unknown origin is called by some Dickenson’s Yount, Mother’s Favorite, Oregon Giant, etc. 
The mammoth 10 to 12-inch pods of OREGON GIANT picked in their prime are ENTIRELY STRINGLESS. 
The QUALITY IS SUPERB for canning or used fresh as a stringless “snap” bean. As a SALAD BEAN whole 
or sliced, and served with dressing it is DELICIOUS. The pale green pods are lightly penciled with carmine 
which disappears when cooked. Large pkt. 10c; x /% lb. 15c; lb. 30c, postpaid, 
